Reflection Paper On Hurricanes

I have always found the ocean to be a very intriguing part of the Earth. There are infinitely many discoveries that have yet to be made about it. My fascination with the ocean sparked the idea to do my class paper on hurricanes and what they are along with their effects. I remember hearing about all the damages from Hurricane Katrina after it hit the coast near New Orleans. The only information I really know about them is what is briefly covered on the news. I thought it would be interesting to discover the true effects they can have on not only people that endure them, but also the environment as it gets ripped to shreds by the plethora of winds and water.

Most major maintenance jobs wouldn’t be completed in a timely manner on a year round school schedule. Major school repairs are done over long summer breaks when the schools are mostly empty. Sometimes, windows have to be removed and fixed. This can’t be done with students around (EnderleMay). Over long breaks, tables, walls, desks, chairs, light fixtures and floors receive a thorough cleaning. With breaks taken away, and students in the classroom all the time, it makes it very hard for things like this

I clearly remember the disaster Hurricane Katrina brought to the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. Several states, counties, and citizens were affected by the storm, specifically the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. I remember seeing up washed caskets floating through the city and residents sitting on their roofs waiting to be rescued. Worst of all, I clearly remember the thousands of homes that were destroyed, practically leaving the entire city homeless. As a young, prospective scientist when this disaster occurred, I remembered learning that hurricanes were referred to as natural disasters and could not be controlled nor prevented. It wasn’t until a college class studying environmental policy did I gain knowledge that the disaster at New Orleans was

Transportation is a major issue that would be impacted by a later school start time. For many school districts, including my own, buses are reused for the elementary and high school students. The problem with shared buses is that if the high school start time changes, so would the elementary start time. Elementary students

Category 5 hurricanes are the highest level of impact and size a hurricane can be; therefore they can be very catastrophic and one must prepare (especially when you live in Florida). There are many ways you can prepare efficiently for a hurricane, even if you can not accurately predict when, where, or how hard it will hit.

Even though new schools have been built for the students and teachers to return it has been hard, because most of the teachers are choosing not to return as they have found suitable jobs elsewhere. Students as well are choosing not to return because a majority of their friends have either left for good, or don’t want to come back and deal with the emotional trauma. As this is just a constant reminder for the kids of the horrors of Hurricane

On September 21 1938 an enormous hurricane hit the east coast, RI and Long island was greatly impacted. This storm was very powerful due to various conditions. One of them was the weather, between the waves, winds, and floods the storm was very deadly. Some other conditions contributed to the destruction, but one in particular put the nailin the coffin, human error. The impact that this hurricane caused was trmendous it destroyed many people's lives.

Hermine weakened while crossing from Florida into Georgia, but still produced sustained winds of 45 mph (72 km/h) at Savannah, with gusts to 58 mph (93 km/h).[77] Farther northeast, Folly Island, South Carolina, reported sustained winds of 44 mph (71 km/h) with gusts to 59 mph (95 km/h),[78] and the pier in Duck, North Carolina, reported sustained winds of 58 mph (93 km/h) with gusts to 73 mph (117 km/h).[79] Heavy rainfall occurred through the Carolinas, reaching 10.72 in (272 mm) in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.[80] At Norfolk International Airport, wind gusts reached 43 mph (69 km/h).[81] In Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, Hermine's passage left around 274,000 people without power.[40][42][82][83]

If would not only include school maintenance costs, which could increase up to 10% if schools are open for longer, it could also add more complexity if they change school policies. Morris, a superintendent of District 2, Los Angeles Unified School District says,”When full-year schooling is implemented to solve space problems, some staff and families are on break while others are in session. policy and school decisions are made while they are away, it could make them feel out of the loop when they return. Teachers who must vacate classrooms for other teachers to use while they are on vacation lose time with frequent setting-up and packing.” So it could increase the complexity when they change policies and make school decisions.

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to almost lose a child during birth? Well on a cold, snowy January night at Floyd hospital, 15 years ago Brandy and Cory was blessed with a miracle, a sweet baby boy, his heart stopped three times during birth. Hunter was born at 11:57 p.m. on January 21, 2001, if he would have waited three more minutes he would have had a different birthday.

Human error played a major role in this disaster, because the people at the weather station were not very concerned about this storm. In fact, they didn’t even figure it was a hurricane. Until a young meteorologist did the math and found that the storm was a hurricane and it was coming to New England. But the further experienced meteorologists didn’t believe him and it never got out to the public, so no one evacuated the area or made any safety precautions. Once they found out it was actually a hurricane, they had no time to

He never met his mom, and no one has seen her since the day after he was born.

I do understand that yes it puts a big dent in the learning plan for the semester. This catastrophic hurricane was something unplan something we as human had no control over. In my opinion to make a child sit through an extra week of class do to the child school being used as a shelter is unjust. The moment the storm came about there was a plan to use the school as a shelter and a plan to clean up, but this plan is not in timely manner. I do understand the things left being from people and their dogs has to be properly sanitizes but a better plan should be in place have a quicker turnaround so now a child has to sit through a extra week of class for because of untimely system to me that is unjust as Dr. martin Luther King stated in his letter from the Birmingham jail “a unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with its moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas an unjust law is a human made law that is not rooted in eternal law or natural law.” Per the artic ether was not a decision made yet but they reference “In the past, when school was closed for weather events, Hillsborough did not have to add any days to the calendar because its schools are open for far more minutes than the state requires. ” so why should they have to make the days this

So first the reason would be affected because after school activities would be moved later, but if school ends at five then do you want your kid to be at school till six or seven if not then this would not help. For example, census.gov says, 57% of kids participate in activities after school that means over half of the school will be there till 7:00 or 6:00 and if there are 79,423. Now is that fair to teachers and staff because they stay a little later to finish up anyways and how little they are paid is just not fair for them to not see their family. So again, I take into consideration my life and others my mom is a teacher so I would never see her and other families would care about this reason just as much as anything

To add. An extra hour of school due to half school boards, many people agree and, disagree