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atmospheric trough from West Africa, causing unsettled weather in the Caribbean, and emerging into the Florida Straits as a tropical storm on September 5. Owing to contradictory forecasts, the people of Galveston felt no alarm until the official hurricane warning of September 7. Next morning a storm surge of 15 ft (4.6 m) washed over the long, flat island-city which was only 8 ft (2.4 m) above sea level, knocking

In 2009, a spring flood in Georgia resulted in national disaster declarations in forty-six counties. According to Copeland and Rice (2015), floods are common disasters in Atlanta, Georgia. They are experienced mostly after winter snows, heavy thunderstorms, or spring rains. The National Weather Service (2014) reported that the Metro-Atlanta suffered disastrous flooding in 2009 after an extended downpour that stemmed from sufficient moisture from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlanta’s topography, and the

Its late morning on a Friday somewhere in the northern part of Texas. The clouds are out as if it’s going to rain soon. The streets are calming down as everyone starts makes it to work. Birds are out and still chirping. There is an old red Chevy driving down the highway with both windows down and laughter creeping out to the unto the air. Paul Crafton is driving down the freeway on the way home with his daughter Jane he just picked up from her mother’s house. Paul is in his early forties and was

inches or more making it the wettest across the state. Six hurricanes are recorded in the 1940’s. September 23rd, 1941 a hurricane hit at Matagorda Bay, traveled through Houston taking four lives and causing six million dollars in damages. The early warnings is what helped save many lives. August 30, 1942 one skirted the coast with 100 mile an hour winds which traveled up to the Edwards Plateau causing 26 million dollars in crop damage. We aren’t done yet, a tropical storm came ashore the Bolivar Peninsula

accident investigation revealed that the crew was completing the third and final leg of a duty day that had begun in Chicago 13 hours earlier. A 2006 survey of short haul pilots revealed that 75% believed they had fatigue bad enough to be considered severe while operating an aircraft. When comparing to the previous two years, 81% reported that their fatigue while on duty had worsened. In addition, the pilots stated that their general overall health, including physical and psychological, had been negatively

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Aim This report will investigate the USA blizzard of 2016 and about how it was caused, the social, environmental and economic impacts that is cause and how the disaster was managed. The report will make recommendations for the future management of blizzards. 1.2 Background A blizzard is a type of atmospheric hazard and is a long-lasting snow storm with intense snowfall and strong winds. For a blizzard to form, warm air rising and moister is needed to create clouds for precipitation

In the west, it is very dry and in the east, it is very humid. Texas has three types of climate. The Gulf Coast area is usually mild with cool air from the coast. A thin strip along the Gulf of Mexico has marine weather and they can have hurricane warnings. The western area of Texas is usually dry with clear days and very cold temperature at night time. The eastern area has cold winters and hot summers. Average rainfall varies from 58 inches in the eastern part of the state to less than 10 inches

Even in this modern day and age, we find ourselves being cautious around mirrors, knocking on wood, and going a different way when a black cat crosses our path. Don’t try to deny it, you’ve gotten jumpy on Friday the 13th, and maybe some of you (like me) hold your breath when you pass a graveyard. You know what I’m talking about. Superstitions. Now, be honest, how many of you started humming that song, “Livin’ la Vida Loco”? My point is that we follow these superstitions for no reason at all, oftentimes

Without doubt, just about every facility should build and also carry out an unexpected emergency arrange for defending workers, site visitors, companies and also anyone else inside facility. This the main disaster prepare is termed “protective steps forever safety” and also consists of building evacuation (“fire drills”), sheltering via significant temperature like tornadoes, “shelter-in-place” via the external airborne danger for instance a chemical substance discharge and also lockdown. Lockdown

It was fun when we went on our family trip this summer the South Dakota. It was a long ride and everything but it was fun to see all of the things we stopped at. Like we stopped at the Falls and walked around for a hour our two and look at all the cool things. We than ate lunch and got back on the road and drove to the hotel we were going to stay at for that night. But every hour or so we had to stop, because someone had to go to the bathroom and my dad would always say “Really, we just stopped