Essays on Tornado

When it comes to weather related hazards, a major problem that my city often faces is that of tornadoes. Now fortunately, this is something that only happens in the spring time. However, when it does occur, major issues can occur. This not only relates to homes being destroyed, but sometimes, because of the tornadoes, there is also flooding too. The reason this happens, is because of the fire hydrants that burst from the impact that the tornadoes end up producing. Moreover, tornadoes can also cause massive gas leaks as well. Now, this all depends on how impactful and large ...

The Angus Tornado

The distinction between watches and warnings in the case of Angus Tornado occurs in the sense that: A watch occurs in an event that there are favorable atmospheric conditions for the development of extreme thunderstorms with a potential to produce a tornado. For instance, in the case of Angus Tornado, there was a favorable atmospheric phenomenon for the occurrence of thunderstorms such as existences of winds moving at speeds 50 knots and above were recorded with hails characterized by diameters larger than 1 inch. However, warnings are imminent conditions characterized by existence of thunderstorms, which produced a tornado in ...

Abstract

This project serves to focus on the country of Saudi Arabia and how the nation, handles school preparedness when it comes to disasters. Saudi Arabia is a developing country. The researcher argues that more need to be done in making sure children are protected in a developing society when a disaster happens. Some of the disasters explored in the discussion include fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and terrorist attacks. The researcher believes that while there is potential to rectify this issue, more future research needs to be done. In the exploration of the topic, the author found that there were vulnerabilities ...

Hi, SMART objectives are widely utilized in creating plans for projects. Since incident management is also a goal-oriented program, SMART objectives can be adopted in planning emergency responses. Your take on using the SMART directives in the tornado scenario provides a series of planned activities that can preserve property and life. The emergency goals in a disaster should focus on prevention and mitigation. The results of the planned programs should be obtainable, centric, realistic, and valid in accordance with SMART objectives. The strategies for controlling the tornado incident should work towards reducing risk, sustaining operations, and protecting property and ...

Question One

System An estimate of between 200 to 1000 migrants and homeless people has set camp “along the railroads tracks west of Quincy, FL, and South of US 90.” The camp in question sits on a ground that is susceptible to tornadoes. Specifically, the ground is marshy coupled with the fact that it has been “in the path of several tornadoes” in the past. The underlying problem is that the evacuation plan and other emergency response mechanisms might not be effective in the event of an emergency. This potential failure is attributable to the fact that the camp residents might ...

1. Emergency Disaster Response Moore, Oklahoma was the site of a massive tornado that eventually killed 24 people and injured 212 others on May 20, 2013. Due to the massive amount of damage in the area, critical health risks existed for the population. Every person in the immediate area of the tornado was placed at risk of impact injuries from flying and falling debris, electrocution and burns from fallen power lines, burns from uncontrolled fires, potential for heart attack from stress and physical exertion, psychological distress, injuries from falling, systemic disorders from eating or drinking contaminated food and water, ...

In this paper I will look at the movie “The Wizard of Oz” through the Musical/ Fantasy/ adventure genre lens. The film is about a young girl who is whisked off into a magical place. A place that is full of witches, munchkins, flying monkeys and actual magic. It is a place of perilous adventure and colorful and interesting personalities. The movie can also be seen as a member of the Family film genre in that the ultimate message of the move is “there is no place like home” (The Wizard of Oz). The Wizard of Oz was a ...

Discussion Questions

How does the author's mother come up with enough money to send to her parents? Diaz's mother was jobless. However, she was able to gather and save few dollars from whatever came on her way. Regardless of how little the family earned, she could save, scrimp, and stash to make sure she had enough dollars to send to her parents. According to Diaz, she deducted some dollars from the cash that her husband gave her for family's daily expenses. Consequently, the family could hardly get soda, juice, snacks, or even labeled clothes. The family had to live broke and ...

Questions and Answers

1. How is a hazard different from a disaster? A hazard is an occurrence where there is a threat to health, life, property or environment while a disaster is an occurrence that totally disrupts the normal ways of a community. Hazards can be prevented from becoming disasters if precautionary steps are taken (Haddow, Bullock & Coppola). 2. What is the most frequent and widespread disaster-causing hazard?

The most frequent and widespread disaster-causing hazard is Floods.

3. What scale is commonly used to describe the effects of earthquakes? The scale that is commonly used to describe the effects of earthquakes is the modified, Mercalli intensity scale (Earthquake.USgs.gov). 4. How are ...

1. In the unfortunate case of a natural disaster occurring, there are various measures which should be taken into account, vital in securing the general population’s safety. These are inclusive of amongst others: - disaster response, evacuation measures, food and water delivery, medical service provision, fire-control and the fixing of electric cable lines amongst others. Regarding Case 43 as aforementioned, there should be guiding principles which are appropriate for the existing measures of disaster coordination. In the field of disaster and emergency management, there are guiding principles, which provide both an ...

Hurricanes cause many countries millions of dollars every year. The impacts of hurricanes destroy infrastructure, business transactions and the economy. Countries that are victims of tornado experience sudden drop in their economy and foreign investments. Many countries spend millions of dollars trying to clean up the damage left by the tornado. Tornados halts businesses, affects agriculture and people. Many governments spend money trying to find immediate shelter, food and water for the areas affected by the tornado. According to the article, the effects of tornados may take decades for cities and nations to recover ...

Executive Summary

This project report gives chronological accounts of tornadoes events that have occurred over a period of 33 years, which is from 1980 to 2013. The paper is meant to illustrate statistical analysis of spatial and temporal occurrences of the mentioned environmental disaster. The rationale of the study was to give reasons behind the high instances of tornado related events and to formulate recommendations on how to predict the occurrences to reduce casualties and damage to property. Again, the analysis would build the foundation for modeling of future changes of a natural disaster with the aim of enhancing communication and disaster preparedness. ...

Questions

1. Do you believe the labels that they were not acting in their own self-interest?

I do not believe that the labels were not acting in their own self-interest. By setting a price floor for their CDs (minimum advertised pricing) they were effectively able to control the revenue they would get. This ‘minimum price’ was set high and this led to higher profit margins at the expense of the consumers.2. Is this a price-fixing scheme or a pure case of altruism?

This was a case of price-fixing. By getting retailers to sell their CDs at an agreed price, the music labels were ...

Hurricane and tornado control device

Part 1: Patent ownership This patent is called hurricane and tornado control device. Andrew Waxmanski applied for this patent after he invented it in 2001 (www.google.com). The application number for this patent is US O9/985, 284. The patent is owned by Andrew Waxmanski.

Part 2: Function of the product and why it deserves a patent

The hurricane and tornado control device was invented against the backdrop of a series of death and destruction of property attributed to hurricanes and tornados. This device proposes a method in which direction of the weather system can be affected. It consists of audio generators. These generators project sound waves in the direction of a weather system. The ...

Disaster and emergency management protocols are a vital need, not only for public governmental entities, but also for private companies as well. Organizations that lack emergency management plans, or whose plans fall short of the “best practices” that have been identified for emergency management, may thrive in the short term, but are headed for a date with the major news media. Sometimes both the public entities and private companies fail to ensure proper disaster and emergency management protocols, leading to unnecessary tragedy, in the form of death and damage to property. One example of this is the Bhopal disaster that ...

Q.1 The condensation occurs due to change in temperature that causes the air to lose the ability to hold water vapor. Resultantly, the water liquefies, and appears as moisture around the bottle or cane filled with some sort of liquid. In July, the area of Tucson experiences difference in air temperature and the warmth dies out as air rises to higher altitudes with the passage of time, so the gaseous form of water takes the shape of liquid because the atmosphere lacks the power to hold the water vapor. Q.2 The air that is present at ...

Introduction

Ashford University has been on a notable receiving end by natural disasters. The disasters that have been on the repeated hit on Ashford University include; Tornadoes, floods and storms (Matter 12-24). As a result, many things have been on the subjected to instances of destruction. In this regard, reports dictate that tornadoes have been an almost accepted phenomenon. Whenever heavy rain rains in their appropriate season’s rain, tornadoes have been engulfing the entire of Ashford’s main campus and the surrounding environs. In essence, the resultant effect of tornadoes to Ashford University has been overwhelming commencing from the time when ...

A Proposal for the Lease of a Commercial Premise:

Following being engaged as the exclusive broker for the Explorer Club, I have searched for a suitable building to lease. The Explorer Club (EC) requires a premise to set up a small retail store (1,000 square feet) and a space in the same building for offices and an auditorium (50,000 square feet). It intends to lease for a period of ten years with two and three, five year options for renewal. Most of the promising buildings have ground leases which have been used to secure loans from a high risk lender, Fortress Financial Inc. In five to seven years, the loan will ...

Abstract

In May 2013 – like 1999 and previous disasters – many people were killed by tornadoes, apart from hundreds being injured and a lot of property being destroyed in Oklahoma. Despite being a yearly event, the government has not made any progress in the way of controlling these disasters, due to the difficulty of predicting them. From the effects of the disasters, the government has remained reactive, and this led to the conclusion that it should declare the area inhabitable. This is likely the best solution to the problem, because the death, injury and the destruction of property is massive, and the people ...

Disaster management is the process of supporting, preparing, and rebuilding the society, region, or any building after being affected by the natural disasters or artificial disasters. In comparison, emergency management planning is the process of preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery of the region or building from the impacts of disasters. This process is largely dependent on the economic and social conditions of the specific area or region. This paper is focused on planning and dealing with the emergency that can occur in the Ashford University located in the mid –western region of the United States. The paper will discuss ...

Hearing my heart beating faster and faster, my palms get sweaty, and the feeling of restless butterflies in my stomach all let me know that my nerves are strung tight. Looking around me, everyone seems like they are a sea of calmness. Soft murmurs can be heard from an occasional speaker while questions fly around in my mind. I look down at my drink and back up at the room, still thinking about the moment that has not come. Waiting for someone to step forward with a greeting while hoping I can succeed this time. Occasionally, someone looks my way. ...

Eastern Saudi Arabia and Indiana State have significant geographical differences; hence the climate differences are evident. Excluding the western region, Saudi Arabia is mainly characterized by a desert climate (Zereini and Heinz 77). During the day, the country experiences high temperatures during the day and unexpected drop of the same during the night. Taking into consideration that it is a desert country, Saudi Arabia records minimal amount of rainfall annually. In fact, rainfall is most experienced in the Western Coast, and mainly between October and March, during which an average of about 300 millimeters are recorded (Zereini and Heinz 79). During ...

An emergency relief program is an essential subject that has elicited myriad debate on the most appropriate ways towards ensuring its efficiency and effectiveness. Often, volunteer organizations step up in executing the mentioned program. It is however interesting to note that the mentioned voluntary organizations mostly rely on their resources to curb a prevailing hazardous situation. Emergency relief program among nations need to be therefore accredited the necessary support. The paper endeavors to highlight on emergency relief among agencies towards mitigating disaster stricken areas. Prevalently, the major concern was McKenzie County in North Dakota. The mentioned county faced the ...

The Great Tri-State Tornado is considered as the deadliest tornado to hit in the history of the United States (Thomas, 2001). On March 18, 1925, a deadly tornado tore across Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois and Southwestern Indiana killing hundreds of lives and leaving thousands injured. The impact of the tornado came from its rapid movement, monstrous size and long track. During the tragedy it was pinpointed that weather forecasters lack the technology to predict, identify or even track severe weather conditions. The communication for Weather forecast was not systematized then. During that fateful day, there were no Weather forecasts heard ...

The Importance of an Emergency Management Plan: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery

It may not come as a surprise to say that, as humans reach out in search of food and shelter, it is the environment around them that is being abused. As man’s needs grow, so too does the pressure on the environment grow, as a result of which, an ecological imbalance is created unconsciously. And once an ecological imbalance occurs, a series of events are triggered that culminates in large scale loss of life and property. There is no doubt the importance the environment has on life on this planet, but man himself, pressed for space, finds no other option but ...

Analysis of the Tornado Scene in the Man of Steel Movie

Introduction Films have a significant influence on viewers. They show various scenes that arouse different emotions among the viewers. The present study examines a scene in the Man of Steel movie that involves the death of Clark’s father, Jonathan Kent. The study investigates the viewers’ emotional reactions to the scene. In superhero movies, it is often a prerequisite for the protagonist to lose loved ones as a way of developing a theme in the film. Batman, for example, loses his parents while Spiderman loses Uncle Ben. In the Man of Steel, Superman loses his earthly father, Jonathan. In the tornado scene, Clark, ...

1 (a) Gross domestic product of a commodity is its value in relation to the market price of that particular country, and it also indicated the living standards of that particular nation. The value of the gross domestic product can, however, is calculated using different formulae and they are; using the income, expenditure and production methods. GDP=C+G+I+NX. C is the consumed product or the amount spent by the consumer; G is the total value spent by the government, I, the total of all the business expenditures of the county and NX is the net profits ...

Introduction

Natural disasters are bound to happen in any region of the country or continent. Such occurrences mostly result in very catastrophic damages to lives and property. They can derail the economic development of any country as they rob off the necessary resources needed for development (Quarantelli, 1988). Although there is nothing that can be done to prevent these occurrences, a country can do something to reduce the negative impacts of natural disasters. Any country must be ready to prepare for any natural disaster. Resources required before, during and after any natural incident need to be readily available to compact these ...

Introduction

Simply put, media is any communication that is disseminated to the broadcast by means of news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages. There are varied forms of media in the modern dispensation. The different forms of media include broadcasting medium such as radio, newspapers, magazines, television, billboards, telephone, direct mail, fax, and Internet. Television, radio and newspapers are traditional forms of media and are, therefore, referred to us mainstreams broadcasting platforms. The presiding purpose of the media is to influence the public concerning different issues in the society. Different forms of media model and inform the basis over which ...

A beast winter storm carrying lashings of wind and rain and to the extent that 18 in of snow to the East Coast has disturbed adventures for voyagers heading to Thanksgiving meals. Many flights were postponed and hundreds were crossed out the nation over on Wednesday, and today, as of recently almost 40 flights have been wiped out, as per Flightstats. On Wednesday, NASA discharged a frightening picture consumed from room indicating the sprawling storm moving from the Midwest as its untidy blend of snow, sprinkle and wailing winds headed to the East. More or less three million individuals ...

The Tri-State Tornado of March 18, 1925

Introduction The Tri-State tornado of 18th march 1925 is the deadliest in the United States history. The tornado travelled from southeastern Missouri through southern Illinois and then into southwest Indiana . The storm destroyed a number of towns completely causing about 695 deaths. The tornado started about one p.m. local time in Ellington. The weather was normal, and the residents were continuing their normal business as usual. The practice of tornado forecasting was not there, and the use of the word ‘tornado’ had been banned from the United States forecasts since the late 19th century . The storm moved so ...

Introduction

Electronic health records are the computerize version of the paper health records which help physicians, pharmacies and hospitals to get access to information that contributes to patient safety, quality of care with timely manner. Despite of many benefits of electronic health records there are some challenges that hinder to start e-records on a wide scale (Silow-Carroll, 2012). There are many real-time examples of successful electronic health records though here we are discussing one of them. In May when the shocking Joplin tornado hit, D. Ringle (chief nursing officer of St. J’s M. Hospital in Joplin, MO) found her hospital ...

Introduction

Health care delivery would not be as efficient as it is now without valuable contributions coming from established experts in the field of medicine. The Mayo Clinic stands as a notable health care institution that has provided some of the most important aspects of modern health care delivery currently in use. Starting from a cause of social concern to provide relief efforts, the Mayo Clinic has emerged as a key player in health care today through its notable innovations and emphasis on the well-being of patients. This study concisely yet comprehensively covers the nature of Mayo Clinic in its enduring importance in ...

Hurricanes and Tornados

The accessible studies highlights that although Hurricanes and Tornados are two different natural occurrences of diverse magnitude, both are damaging windstorm characterized with regrettable impact on human lives and resources. Environmental experts have described hurricane as a huge air mass that can be more than 1000 miles while tornado is a seldom occurrences that is one mile across. Despite understanding the trends and the impacts of these two phenomena, global societies and most specifically international environmental experts have taken imperceptible measures to avert their outcome. Based on my understanding, tornado is a rapidly spinning of air that emerges because of a thunderstorm ...

Introduction

A tempestuous storm with force of winds up to 300 miles an hour is recognized as tornado. Shaped like a funnel, tornado appears to be a gray or black colored cloud moving towards the ground from its base of origin. An average tornado proceeds from southwest to northwest at a speed of 30-70 miles/hour but it can move into any direction or stay stationary in extremely rare cases. Tornadoes are sometimes accompanied by hurricanes. Tornadoes are atmospheric hazards that have the strength to uproot buildings and trees and turn them into deadly missiles within seconds. They are the most destructive natural hazards ...

Tools used for communications.

There is a tornado warning in town, and a strong system is need to establish an emergency communication plan with the public and the related state organs. Any organization should be well prepared for emergencies anytime with adverse skills and systems that would assist in communicating the emergency to the public. In most organizations, communication is known to be mainly reliable on the telephone and internet to relay a message from one individual to the other. Telephones may include both the landline telephone system as well as cell phones. In such a case, where the landline telephone and internet systems fails, other methods of ...

Natural disasters

In geography, natural disasters can strike at any time. This is because no scientific measure can help avoid these disasters. Once they occur, the cause great damage to the environment. Since there is no measure to take so as to stop a natural disaster from happening, we need to understand the causes and any precautions that can help us avoid confrontation with a natural calamity. In California, Los Angeles and Long beach, one of the most remembered natural calamities id the 1933 earthquake which hit the area causing a great damage to property and heavy losses in life. Though people were ...

Do-Ho Suh was born in 1962 in Seoul, Korea but he received his Fine Arts degree in painting form the Rhode Island School of Design and another Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Yale. His art brings together the feelings of contemporary society using three dimensional objects. Sometimes Nature is a part of his art. For example his piece which is called ‘Net-Work’ (2010) is a shimmering metal net raised along an ocean’s beach, leaning almost upright in the sand following the curve of the seashore. In sunshine or even when there are clouds in the sky, the light shimmers ...

There are numerous similarities between the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and literature for today’s young adults by Donelson and Nilsen. The novel just like in the young adult literature contains not only elements that would interest youthful readers but also aspects that relate to adolescent life. Young Adult Literature focuses on a number of themes such as: sexuality, suicide, identity and science fiction. Most of these themes are captured in the novel which therefore makes the Hatchet a perfect example of young adult fiction specifically published for the adolescent or teenagers.

The power/magic in positive thinking is one of ...