Residents were without power for up to six months after the storm rolled through. Andrew also caused a great deal of damage to offshore oil facilities as it approached a second landfall in Louisiana, where it caused another one billion dollars in damage. In total, the damage caused by Andrew in both South Florida and Louisiana totaled twenty six billion dollars, the most costly natural disaster in United States history. The social impacts on South Florida were tremendous. You have to take into consideration that before Hurricane Andrew, there was about a generation of South Florida residents who had not experienced a hurricane.
[16] At 3:10 pm PDT (2210 UTC), the NHC issued its second special advisory for Rick, this time stating that the storm had become a Category 5 hurricane, the first in the basin since Hurricane Kenna in 2002. [17][18] Around 8:00 pm PDT (0300 UTC on October 18), Rick attained its peak intensity as the second-strongest Pacific hurricane on record. Maximum sustained winds in the eyewall reached 180 mph (285 km/h) and the barometric pressure is estimated to have bottomed out at 906 mbar (hPa; 26.75 inHg). The pressure was not directly measured as reconnaissance missions by Hurricane Hunter aircraft were not done because the storm was too far from land. Lixion Avila, a senior hurricane specialist at the NHC, described Rick's satellite presentation at this time as
Hurricane Carol was among the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect the New England region of the United States. It developed from a tropical wave near the Bahamas on August 25, 1954, and slowly strengthened as it moved northwestward. On August 27, Carol intensified to reach winds of 105 mph (170 km/h), but weakened as its motion became to a northwest drift. A strong trough of low pressure turned the hurricane northeastward, and Carol later intensified into a major hurricane. [nb 1] While paralleling the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States, the storm produced strong winds and rough seas that caused minor coastal flooding and slight damage to houses in North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Delaware, and New Jersey.
In August 2005, the Gulf Coast of the southern United States was hit by one of the most powerful hurricanes on record. Hurricane Katrina slammed into Louisiana and Mississippi with winds exceeding 170 miles per hour and storm surges of up to 26 feet. The coastal cities of Gulfport and Biloxi sustained heavy damages, but it was New Orleans that came to symbolize the devastation of the storm. The low-lying port city sits below sea level, and although it avoided the strongest winds, heavy rains and storm surges overwhelmed its levees and caused massive flooding. Much of New Orleans had been evacuated before the storm hit, but tens of thousands of people were stuck in flooded areas without power or water for days.
An estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages have Alzheimer’s disease in 2012. This figure includes 5.2 million people age 65 or older and 200,000 individuals under age 65 who have younger onset Alzheimer’s. One in eight people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s disease and nearly half of people age 85 and older have Alzheimer’s disease. More women than men have Alzheimer’s disease. Almost two third of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women which is explained by the fact that women live longer on average than men.
Some are more prevalent than others. In the south Texas region, Hurricane preparedness is top of the line since Katrina hit in 2005. It has put a new definition to hurricane preparedness. Hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean is every year starting June 1st thru November 30th. There are four stages of disaster management.
o. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and costliest Atlantic storm of the 2005 season and one of the most destructive is US history. Total damage is an estimated $108 billion, with over millions of people left homeless. p. 5) Barack Obama q. January 3, 2008 r. Barack Obama is sworn into presidency, becoming the 1st ever African American president in the US. s. Obama’s election marked a new age away from racism and discrimination. Just one generation after the Civil Rights Movement, an African American man has moved his way up into the White House.
Another example would be that the United States gives an average burglary sentence around sixteen months, but Canada gives a sentence of five months, and in England people get about seven months. This is a rather large difference, and can explain why the United States as of 2009 holds the highest incarceration rate throughout the world at 754 inmates per 100,000 people. The war on drugs in the United States has seriously impacted the criminal justice system. There have been a lot more people arrested and sentenced for non violent crimes. This has also had a big part in the current overcrowding of the United States prisons.
Bangladesh is expected to see an increase of over 10% in its levels of precipitation by 2050, this will be linked to the increasing temperatures of the bay of Bengal, which if it becomes warmer it means the levels and magnitudes of tropical cyclones, this could cause huge problems for Bangladesh, and cause large numbers of people to move from coastal cities in land, this mass migration may cause tensions between the regions, and may even extend to between countries as many Bangladeshi’s are expected to migrate to neighboring country India. Furthermore this mass migration could be exasperated by the increase in the number of floods and storm surges caused by a rise in sea level, and given the fact that Bangladesh’s geography means that over 20% of the land is under 1 meter above sea level it could cause huge numbers of deaths and perhaps a contamination of local water supplies due to the becoming salinated. And the prevalence of water Bourne diseases such as cholera could increase to dangerous levels. Furthermore in Bangladesh over 50% of the population is reliant on agriculture as a source of income, global warming is expected to cause a longer wet season, this will be good as it will enable Bangladeshi farmers to achieve a higher yield of crops such as rice crops ( which need a wet environment) and may even go to the extreme of being able to plant multiple crops and
Just in the month of March it was reported 19 million dollars were raised up a total of 5 million more than the month before and seems to be continuing in this upward phase for now. So far Colorado has exceeded the original budget proposal almost doubling in tax revenue not to say it will continue in such a huge increase but seems to be steadily progressing. A side effect that Colorado was not exactly looking for was a decrease in crime since the legalization of marijuana. During the early months of this legalization reports show that the rate of violent crimes have decreased as well as a large decrease in incarcerations since this process has begun. Some have estimated 60 million dollars are spent enforcing legal prohibition each in year in Colorado before this amendment while estimating that they could save the minimum of 12 million dollars a year (Alliance, 2014).