Disaster Preparedness and Response Measures and Actions for Specific Disasters Preparing for Emergencies (General) Prepare For Disaster * Set up a place to meet after a disaster. Choose an out-of-state emergency contact person. * Know different ways to get out of your home. * Be ready to help your neighbors. Ask them to make sure you are alerted in a disaster. * Have disaster plans for work‚ school and child care. * Keep emergency supplies in your house and car. Check
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Situation Awareness and Decision Making in a Warning Environment Advanced Warning Operations Course IC Core 2 Lesson 3: Team SA Warning Decision Training Branch Lesson 3 will focus on the Situation Awareness (SA) of teams. The “teams” in this lesson are not limited to the forecast office staff. For example‚ another team would be the entire group comprised by the forecast office‚ the media‚ and emergency managers‚ who are all part of the warning process. 1 Lesson 3: Team SA Learning
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NS103 FORMAL REPORT: NATURAL DISASTERS GROUP MEMBERS: BASE‚ Aron Christoper V. CASTILLO‚ Jonathan Nelson E. GUEVARA‚ Steven Kristian L. 4ISB FEBRUARY 11‚ 2014 Avalanches While avalanches are sudden‚ the warning signs are almost always numerous before they let loose. Yet in 90 percent of avalanche incidents‚ the victim or someone in the victim’s party triggers the snow slides. Avalanches kill more than 150 people worldwide each year. Most are snowmobilers‚ skiers
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GEOL 1402 Hour Test 3: Review Guide Chapter 18: Air Pressure and Wind 1. Know standard air pressure at sea level in pounds per square inch and inches of mercury. (1 question) 2. Know who invented the mercurial barometer. (1 question) 3. Study the instruments used to measure air pressure. (1 question) 4. Review the role of pressure gradients in creating wind. (3 questions) 5. Know how the spacing of isobars on a weather map relates to wind speeds. (2 questions) 6. Know that a “southwest wind” blows
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in an hour (During severe weather) * January 9th 2012- That years first confirmed tornado with hail the size of ping pong balls (Houston and Galveston) * April 6‚ 2012- More than a dozen tornadoes ripped through north Texas‚ there were as many as 19 in progress at a time‚ the strongest one reaching an EF4. -Forney EF3‚ wind speeds up to 150 mph “ It was like a bomb hit”-Patti Gilroy (Victim of the tornado) -Lancaster EF2‚ wind speeds up to 130 mph * August 31‚2012 Outer rain bands associated
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NATURAL DISASTERS Whitewater Rafting Whitewater rafting enthusiasts row or paddle rubber rafts down turbulent‚ fast-running rivers. Rafting trips can be short day trips or longer trips that involve camping alongside the river at night. Encarta Encyclopedia Energy Productions/The Image Bank Amazon River The Amazon River in South America is one of the longest rivers in the world. Only the Nile River in Africa is longer. Encarta Encyclopedia Claudia Parks/The Stock
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tornadoes is found in Tornado Alley‚ USA. What is a tornado: * A vortex (whirling mass of air)descends from well developed cumulonimbus cloud. * A tornado vortex is in contact with the cloud and the ground * Violent winds (100m per second) * Extreme pressure gradients (25mb per 100m) and air rushing from the high to low causes the spinning winds. (Hurricanes 20mb per 100km!!) * Diameter of funnel is rarely more then 200m Key conditions required for a tornado to form: *
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the goverment should take action toward those industries which use the natural resoures in wide range. ande give them punishment to them and save our planet from natural disaters. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide) that affects the environment‚ and leads to financial‚ environmental and/or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster‚ and their
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1. Be wary of the main storm hazards. Thunderstorm Hazards (lightening‚ hail‚ tornado‚ downpours of rain flooding‚ downbursts of air gustfronts Hurricane Hazards contain thunderstorms‚ storm surge/coastal flooding‚ high waves‚ coastal erosion 2. Describe the different types of lightning‚ how they form‚ and what happens when they strike something. Cloud-to-cloud lightening: occurs when voltage gradient within a cloud‚ or between clouds overcomes electrical resistance of air. Cloud-to-ground
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In Jacksonville Florida we experience five major types of severe weather storms. The five severe storms that are experienced are hurricanes‚ thunderstorms‚ flash floods‚ lightning‚ and tornadoes. If we were to build in arena in Jacksonville then the chances that one of those severe weather storms will hit that area are quit high. Hurricanes are also called typhoons in the western Pacific and cyclones in Australia and the Indian Ocean. Hurricanes form over tropical oceans; they need the warm air
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