Gulf of Mexico and that levees were not capable of handling a hurricane five category hurricane. According to‚ (News Round‚ 2005) New Orleans is in a really vulnerable position for hurricanes. It lies above the Gulf of Mexico‚ where lots of the huge storms start. The Mississippi river runs through the middle of town‚ and Lake Pontchartrain is to its north. Because the city is on ground which is below sea level‚ these things combine to put it in a dangerous position for flooding. The location of
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NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS IN THE CARIBBEAN Definitions A hazard can be defined as‚ “A potentially damaging physical event‚ phenomenon or human activity that may cause the loss of life or injury‚ property damage‚ social and economic disruption or environmental degradation”. Hazards can include latent conditions that may represent future threats and can have different origins: natural (geological‚ hydrometeorological and biological); or induced by human processes (environmental degradation
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and it continues to sink‚ by up to an inch a year. Upstream dams and levees built to tame Mississippi River floods and ease shipping have starved the delta downstream of sediments and nutrients‚ causing wetlands that once buffered the city against storm-driven seas to sink beneath the waves. Louisiana has lost 1‚900 square miles of coastal lands since the 1930s; Katrina and Hurricane Rita together took out 217 square miles‚ putting the city that much closer to the open Gulf. Most ominous of all‚
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sustainability. The section chosen for this investigation was the Urangan beach‚ adjacent to Churchill Street. Its main issue it faces is beach erosion. Erosion is caused by the slow or gradual wearing away of sand‚ and is especially common during storms‚ high tide and rough weather. 2.0 Methodology Primary data was gathered in the form of images taken at the beach and guest speakers (Acworth and Broadstock from FCRC) speaking on the issues‚ solutions and management of coastal areas Secondary
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Meg pulled her fluffy black blanket close to her‚ so she can actually feel some warmth during the dismal storms of winds and at high speeds of rain and air. Ordinarily‚ the storms that weren’t usually this harsh‚ typically she would doze off right though the night. However in this storm‚ her mind continued to ruminate about her stress at school. The wind was loud as those sport announcers‚ she watches on tv sometimes‚ they shouted when somebody on the Red Sox hit a homerun. The rushing droplets of
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continued to approach the land‚ striking low lying and coastal areas. The force of this category 4 cyclone‚ effectively transferred into surrounding oceans off the bay‚ leading to massive storm surges‚ comparable to those carried out by cyclone Katrina. Following this idea‚ it is clear how Burma‚ a traditional tropical storm region‚ experienced such a devastating effect as with no protection to the coast‚ the cyclone hit the entirety of the Burmese coastal border. In addition to this‚ due to Burma’s less
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StormBy Kate Chopin The storm begins and Calixta’s family is separated. In a classical novel beginning‚ danger lurks from that old titan‚ Mother Nature herself. The man of the house‚ Bobinot‚ is away from home and can’t protect his wife. Readers are given the impression that a woman is alone and possibly in danger back at the ranch. Calixta’s old lover arrives at her house just in time to be trapped there by the storm. It would be one thing if Calixta had to wait out the storm alone in the big house
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the ‘hurricane belt’ in the middle of the Caribbean. Intensity and frequency of hurricanes have increased over the last 10 years. Result in flooding‚ landslides‚ storm surges and damage from intense rains and high winds. These are some of the hurricanes Jamaica experienced. EVENTS YEAR CASUALITIES Storm Nicole 2010 16 Storm Gustav 2008 12 Hurricane Dean 2007 4 Hurricane Wilma 2005 1 Hurricane Emily 2005 4 Hurricane Ivan 2004 17 Hurricane Charley 2004 1 TOTAL 54
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Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. Hurricane Katrina started out as any other hurricane‚ as the result of warm moisture and air from the oceans surface that built into storm clouds and pushed around by strong forceful winds until it became a powerful storm. Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23‚ 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane‚ causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf
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the island caused severe flooding‚ leading to five fatalities.[8] The depression entered the Gulf of Mexico and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Celia later on August 1.[1] Due to warm sea surface temperatures‚[8] Celia rapidly intensified into a Category 3 hurricane on August 1.[1] Storm surge and swells lashed the west coast of Florida‚ especially the
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