Jeff Rommel’s introduction to Florida could be described as trial by hurricane. Rommel took overFlorida operations in 2004 for Nationwide Insurance.Over a 2-month period in 2004‚ Florida experiencedits worst hurricane season in history — four majorhurricanes (Charley‚ Frances‚ Ivan‚ and Jeanne) slammed thestate‚ causing an estimated $40 billion in damage. In the hurricanes’ wake‚ Nationwide received more than 119‚000 claims collectively worth $850 million. Although dealing with those
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Occurrence: Year …………………………… Month …………………………… Date b) 2nd Occurrence: Year …………………………… Month …………………………… Date c) 3rd Occurrence: Year …………………………… Month …………………………… Date STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC‚ CULTURAL‚ POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF THE AREA 2) What is the basis of family economy of this area? a) Business b) Farming c) Government jobs d) Private jobs e) Others 3) Which community is in majority in this area? a) Khasi b) Jaintia c) Others 4) Which is the dominant
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Running head: Fundamentals of Disaster Management in the context of Pakistan … Term Paper “Fundamentals of Disaster Management in the context of Pakistan” Junaid Ahmad Fundamental of Disaster Management MSDM2012 Shah Nasir Khan Dec 17th Jan 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page ABSTRACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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facilities In developing the Structural Engineering Slide Library as a resource for teaching structural and architectural engineering‚ the topic of structural dynamics is of prime importance. Earthquake engineering is one of the most visible aspects of this field and one of the most easily illustrated due to the extent and variety of structural damage in earthquakes; thus it was decided to devote a volume to this subject. Professor Bertero‚ of the Department of Civil Engineering
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A community’s ability to cope after a disaster is critical in ensuring that the community and its citizens are able to return to a sense of normalcy after the disaster. Oftentimes‚ the response to a disaster can be a determining factor in the ability for the community to prepare for the next disaster. The conceptual model of societal response to disaster lays the framework for a society to understand the ways in which a disaster affects the community‚ either before‚ during‚ or after the event. The
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dome built to house the Katrina victims: the Astrodome. Even though the Katrina victims had so many places to go‚ some were forced to stay behind because of hospitalization‚ they were abandoned by their caretakers‚ a lack of transportation‚ e.t.c. Out of all areas that were hit by Katrina‚ New Orleans suffered the most damage. 80% of the city was flooded. About 204‚000 homes were either damaged permanently or temporarily and more than 800‚000 citizens uprooted from New Orleans. The population shrunk
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Background: Challanger Space Shuttle disaster happened in January 28 at 11:38 am. According to the report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shutte Challanger accident‚ shortly after 1 am ET on January 27‚ NASA’s booster rocket manager‚ Larry Wear‚ asks officials of rocket maker Morton Thiokol in Utah whether cold weather on January 28 would present a problem for launch. They got the answer by late afternoon after the midlevel NASA managers are on the phone with Thiokol managers‚ who
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BRITISH MIDLANDS‚ KEGWORTH AIR DISASTER PRE-CRISIS British Midlands Airways Limited (trading as BMI or British Midland International) was an airline with its head office in Donington Hall in Castle Donington‚ close to East Midlands Airport‚ in United Kingdom. It was acquired by international Airlines Group in April 2012 and was merged into British Airways by 28th October 2012. The airline flew to destinations in Europe‚ the Middle East‚ Africa and Central Asia from its operational base at London
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People led District Disaster Management Soon after the Orissa Cyclone and thereafter the Gujarat earthquake the Government of India prioritized a national policy on disaster management and advocated a change of direction from a post disaster reactive approach to a proactive stance before the occurrence of disasters‚ provided a new legal framework and greater harmonization of disaster management efforts. The policy set forth principles (including significant community role and active civil society
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[Type text] Haiti as a Potential Disaster Tourism Destination Aleksandr Gorbenko Certificate in International Hotel and Tourism Management HTMi Switzerland 0 [Type text] Table of Content Introduction ............................................................................... 2 Historical Manifestations of Dark Tourism ........................... 2 Dark Tourism Motivation ....................................................... 3 Positive Sides of Dark Tourism ...........
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