Chapter 26: Hurricane Camille Hurricane Camille was a disastrous storm with catastrophic damage including the destruction of many towns and lives even after making landfall and weakening. As most tropical systems, Camille began as a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa. Camille began to strengthen as it moved across the Atlantic reaching hurricane strength as is approached Cuba. Once Camille entered the Gulf of Mexico, Air Force reconnaissance measured wind speeds of up to 200 mph and a central pressure around 901 mb. Evacuation was strongly recommended for areas along the Gulf from Louisiana to Florida, though some residents refused to evacuate the area.
Here the winds are usually the strongest, storm rush is highest, and the possibility of tornadoes is greatest. It is important to know whether or not your area will be affected by the right-front quadrant. It could mean the difference between maximum hurricane conditions or a glancing blow. The heavy rains associated with a tropical weather system are responsible not only for major flooding in areas where the storm initially strikes, but can also affect areas hundreds of miles from where the storm originally made landfall. During landfall, it is not uncommon for five to ten inches to fall.
Panhandle: A narrow strip of territory projecting from the main territory of one state into another. Location On Tuesday, August 23, 2005 a storm located near the south of Bahamas called Tropical Depression 10 reacted with a tropical wave creating an intense tropical storm. The day after on Wednesday a tropical storm in the Caribbean was called Katrina, the Thursday after the storm had grown to the size of a Hurricane. Later that day, Katrina was blown to the shore of the east coast of Florida and killed four people and left approximately 1,000,000 people without power. It was expected to hit the panhandle next, while it was travelling at tremendous speeds through the eastern gulf of Mexico.
To what extent are the impacts of tropical storms more than just environmental (30 marks) A hurricane is an intense, rotating oceanic weather system that possesses maximum sustained winds exceeding 79mph. It forms and intensifies over tropical oceanic regions. They cause devastating effects in any areas that they make landfall and can cause governments billions of pounds to repair damages. Hurricanes form and intensify over oceanic regions. They require sea-surface temperatures of at least 26°C and the influence of the earth’s rotation to initiate a spinning circulation (Coriolis effect).
August 29, 2005 is a day New Orleans, Louisiana and the nation will never forget. This was the day a hurricane by the name of Katrina made landfall. The tragedy was not the fact that the city was now under water, the tragedy followed in the days, weeks and months to follow. The aftermath of Katrina shows the public how federal, state and local governments can fail a community during a disaster when needed the most. According to Bergal & Hiles (2007), “official records show that while Katrina was a strong Category 3 hurricane when it slammed into the Gulf Coast near the Mississippi-Louisiana border, by the time it blew over the city of New Orleans, the winds had weakened considerably.” This national disaster could have been prevented if someone would have pushed harder to have more funding to have the levees made stronger on the federal, state and local level.
Of these, 74 were in Haiti, which was already trying to recover from the impact of three storms earlier that year:Fay, Gustav, and Hanna. In the United States, 112 people were killed, and 23 are still missing. Due to its immense size, Ike caused devastation from the Louisiana coastline all the way to the Kenedy County, Texas region near Corpus Christi, Texas. [6] In addition, Ike caused flooding and significant damage along the Mississippi coastline and the Florida PanhandleHYPERLINK \l "cite_note-6"[7] Damages from Ike in U.S. coastal and inland areas are estimated at $29.6 billion (2008 USD),[2] with additional damage of $7.3 billion in Cuba (the costliest storm ever in that country), $200 million in the Bahamas, and $500 million in the Turks and Caicos, amounting to a total of at least $37.6 billion in damage. Ike was the second costliest Atlantic hurricane of all time, only surpassed by Hurricane Katrina of 2005 (not adjusted for inflation; if adjusted, Ike would be the third costliest storm).
PCA offered no public statements about its product recall until January 13, 2009, months after salmonellosis cases had been found to be a result of their company’s practices. Their unprofessional practices continued to lead to a large-scale organizational communication failure as the public rose to confusion by not having any information. Hallman and Cuite (2010) stated, “Confusion can arise when consumers have too little information about contaminated products”. They explained that if consumers “cannot successfully distinguish affected from unaffected products, they are likely to either under-react by assuming that they do not own any of the recalled products or over-react by discarding or avoiding the purchase of anything that resembles it”. PCA’s lacks of adequate responsibility for their wrong doings lead to ethical dilemmas and communication failure.
Wilkes Professor Nora Kabaji English 100 12 July 2009 Hurricane Ike Texas was not prepared for what was about to devastate the people, animals, homes, and communities along the coast. Hurricane Ike was a huge and powerful storm that brought along a majority of the water in the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of Texas on September 13, 2008. Ike was a category two hurricane that was only one miles per hour from becoming a category three. Hurricane Ike caused a lot of damage such as flooding, wind, and even fires. Evacuations started only a couple of days before the hurricane made landfall and many decided to ride out the storm.
The preparation in Haiti, however, was non-existent. No action was taken following the prediction by US scientists, and the strongest building in the city were the oldest, due to the more modern buildings having been very badly constructed. If the buildings had been better constructed, such as in California, then fewer would have fallen and the effects, both economically and in terms of death count, would have been reduced. The response in Haiti was similarly poor. Due to the fallen building and poor infrastructure, aid was not able to reach Haiti for almost a week.
They are born from tropic waters that affect quite a few across the world but in the Gulf of Mexico they tend to wreak particular havoc. These storms have potential for mass devastation through storm surges that flood the coastline often taking lives and possible contamination of water supplies, heavy rain which contributes to flooding situations and high winds coupling with tornadoes that destroy property, Storm surges are among one of the worst factors of a hurricane. Often, at the time, people do not even realize the impacts a storm surge can have and do not head authorities warnings to evacuate the coastline, which can result in a high death toll. As Jay Barnes notes in his research: As a hurricane churns across the open sea, the combined effects of the storm’s lowered barometric pressure and strong, inward-spiraling winds create a deep, swirling column of water beneath the ocean’s surface. This effect causes the sea level to rise in the vicinity of the storm, creating a dome of water that may be a few feet high in the center and a hundred miles wide.