“Hurricane Digital Memory Bank” is an ethical representation of the natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina. It has nothing negative on the website towards anyone or anything that I have seen. We all realize that this natural disaster was a terrible event; therefore there is some unpleasant pictures and stories but nothing that is considered unethical. In the archive, values of the people who have posted stories and pictures are somewhat present in select features. Some have talked about how they relied
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a very small child. I was raised in a small town just twenty-five miles southwest of New Orleans. I spent many years dodging hurricanes and massive Tropical storms but unfortunately one year my luck ran out. HURRICANE KATRINA: Satellite Images Confirm Aerosol Geoengineering and EM Modification of CAT-3 Storm Chemtrails The tropical depression that became Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and meteorologists were soon able to warn people in the Gulf Coast states that a
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miss communicated to the public. (Rose, 2011). In 2005 Mother Nature brought Hurricane Katrina to the coast Lousiana and, she devastated the city of New Orleans. Today our community’s natural disaster is a life-threatening biological agent which has spread in the water supply of several towns. Technology has changed the way a community in a disaserous situation communicates after the Three Mile Island and Hurricane Katrina. Comparing the way an Emergency Management Office communicates with the public
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lot of media and created concerns in the local area. There were traditional form of technology by which was used to notify the public, television networks and local radio stations were also used. Compared to the crisis that took place in 2005, Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the New Orleans area, immersing many parts of the city under water causing trauma to families, the strategy for communication that was used are the internet, which reached a greater number of the public. As a director of a
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City of Port Orange The growth in technology over the past decade has paved the way for great advancement in the field of emergency management with the use of web-based situational awareness programs. In a White House briefing following Hurricane Katrina, it was noted that unified management and lack of inter-agency communication was one of the greatest pitfalls in the recovery process (The White House, 2005). Complete, accurate, and up-to-the-minute situational awareness is essential for emergency
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Wesleyan University. Crisis Communication Critique Paper Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 25, 2005. It was a category 2 tropical typhoon that devastated vast parts of the city. The canals that were in New Orleans were not built to withstand the typhoon. This typhoon caused canal breaches and pumping-station failures. This caused a great deal of flooding of about 80 percent of the areas in New Orleans. Hurricane Katina caused a great deal of damage and displacement of many residents
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Samantha Manuel Dr. Xiongya Gao English 111 September 22, 2014 On August 29, 2005, there was a hurricane forming in the Gulf of Mexico. Her name was Katrina. It started as a small tropical storm, but as it entered the warm waters of the Gulf it grew to be a monstrous storm. So monstrous, that it would destroy anything in its path. Covering the coast lines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. During this time, I contacted family members of their plans. We decided to head in different directions
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In 2005, Hurricane Katrina was the cause of many deaths and destruction. Homes were destroyed and lives were ruined. David Egger’s Zeitoun tells the story of a family that survived this natural disaster. The main character, Abdulrahman Zeitoun decided to stay in New Orleans and help his community while his wife, Kathy, left for safety with their children. Although he had good intentions, Zeitoun makes a bad decision to stay in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because he suffers tremendously and
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2012 Mr. Anthony Pitucco Case in Point Analysis Case Hurricane Katrina Along Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama the North-Central Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina was hit in August of 2005. It produced a storm surge that caused severe damage to the city of New Orleans as well as the other coastal cities and towns in the region. The damage from Hurricane Katrina caused a little more damage that some have expected. Not only has Katrina wiped out homes, and has left thousands of people homeless
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The Future of Emergency Management Jeffrey C. Jones Case Studies in Natural and Man Made Disasters Professor Charles Kocher July 16, 2012 Abstract Emergency managers have historically been just that, managers of emergency situations. As the field of emergency management changes, more and more emphasis is being placed on the prevention of the emergency all together. This paper will lay out the frame work of emergency management in terms of total reorganization. The
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