GBL 395 Essay Question Buffalo Creek Disaster #1 Write a synopsis of “The Buffalo Creek Disaster” book According to “The Buffalo Creek Disaster” is talked about the terrible disaster that happened in The 17 mile Valley in West Virginia. This is a true story about how two companies that called “The Buffalo Mining Company and The Pittston Company”. Those two companies are causing the most devastating coal mining disaster in history. Moreover, The Pittston Company was lack of manage ability for its firm so Buffalo Mining Company was bought it. The Buffalo Creek Flood killed many people in the February of 1972.
From city historical record is only 28% of Joplin new home has basement as of 2009,compared with 38%two decades ago. What doe this tells of a city with or located on an alloy of a tornado? Or when it comes in mitigation and preparedness in confronting natural disaster?. Since the tornado, the engineers have criticized the tie up construction of home depot in which all but two of the modeling home used as a sample to demonstrate to the public the benefit of tie structures all collapsed in a domino effect after the tornado, lifted the roof killing seven people in front of the home depot
Ten die in Qld floods, 78 missing January 11, 2011 AAP A four-year-old boy's death during an attempt to rescue his family has taken the Queensland floods death toll to 10, with 78 people still missing. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the number of missing people had risen to 78 from 59, with grave concerns held for 18 people. The four-year-old boy was swept away in floodwaters at Marburg, west of Brisbane. "The best advice we have at this stage is that this boy's life was lost during an attempt to rescue him and his family," Ms Bligh told reporters on Tuesday night. Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale said the boy had fallen out of a boat.
This left the remaining buildings gutted to the third and fourth story. Gambling barges became effective torpedoes, destroying buildings as they were washed up to 500feet inland by the waves and storm surges. New Orleans On Monday, 29 August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans knocked out all power and submerged the low lying city in um to 6 feet (2 meters) of rising water. Katrina tore part of the roof of the roof of a stadium, where many sought refuge. At this point in it's journey Katrina was a category 2 hurricane and brought winds of of 105 miles per hour or 170 kilometres hour.
The one traumatic natural disaster I have experienced was Hurricane Fran. Living on the southern east coast of the United States you are susceptible to hurricanes. Hurricane Fran hit the east coast on Sept 5th, 1996. The wind got high as 125 MPH causing over two million people to go without electricity. The heavy rainfall flooded areas inland all the way up to the Virginias.
Severe damage to Spanish ships. Bad weather & storms wrecked most of the remaining Spanish ships. Only 1/3 survived. 7th&8th August 1588, English sent fire ships to scatter Spanish. 13th Aug. : the Spanish ships are blown north away.
It was effected by the collision in the Halifax Harbor led to the biggest man made explosion in the world before the era of the atomic bomb on December 6th, 1917. Most children were going to school and were on there way; that means most children died rather than adults. It also destroyed the town and that took about 2 years to repair. At the time no one knew what to do they were freaking out because of all these disasters that happened. Most people were distracted by all the fire and such that they didn’t move a one bit; they just stood there.
Ryan Rosier Mrs. Ball English 9 February 27, 2014 Hurricane Katrina As Hurricane Katrina struck land in New Orleans people who didn’t leave the city were staring down the barrel of a loaded gun. Only Katrina’s gun was loaded with 140 mph gale force winds and crushing flood waters. The effects of the hurricane’s wrath were devastating enough to cause 75 billion dollars in damage. (Hurricane Katrina) Raging through while demolishing buildings, leveling entire suburbs, and taking thousands of lives was what this storm was hell bent on accomplishing. For those who didn’t leave the city, whether they couldn’t afford the costs, seeked the thrill of the storm, or just simply didn’t wanna leave on the opened interstates, (Beller) the storm
The Effects of April 27th 2011 April 27th 2011, was one of the most devastating days ever in Alabama’s history. On this day 2 years ago, more than 200 people lost their lives, hundreds of families lost their homes, and many towns were destroyed. One of the many towns destroyed was my home town of Cordova, Alabama. The destruction was massive. The middle of town was completely leveled.
Criminally Negligent at the Dam On May 30, heavy rains started, the worst ever recorded in the area, six to ten inches in less than twenty-four hours. Rivers rose and downed telegraph lines, cutting off any fast connections of warning. On the last day in the May of 1889, the South Fork Dam burst, sending millions of gallons of water with the force of Niagara Falls and tons of debris, such as houses, barns, animals, and rocks and dirt, onto the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The wave, forty feet high and a half a mile wide, destroyed Johnstown in about ten minutes. Many of the people were crushed by debris or caught in barbed wire from the nearby Cambia Iron Works.