These short-term agreements should be among contingency plans drawn up before a flood arrives, although it would not always be possible to predict the dimensions of floods and the resourcefulness and responses of individuals facing the emergency. The proper approach would be a mingling of a lot of intergovernmental planning and voluntary agreements among city, county and State governments and federal agencies (Wahl).
The widespread human and material distress, caused by the 1993 Mississippi River Flood would provoke the mind of sober individuals as the wisdom of the policies and programs, which contributed to that disaster (Myers 1993). In confronting the cause and effects of the Great Flood, the nation first needed to decide whether to rebuild, strengthen, raise, lower or simply abandon the levees along the Upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Rivers. Then focus should be made on the long-term quality of natural landscapes and human communities in the region. These communities could optimize distinctive floodplain values without degrading or depleting basic resources. Next would be measures on water management for the entire nation, including improving methods for the comparative evaluation of levees with other adjustments to floods; modifying policy in order to deal with substantially damaged structures after flooding; revising the strategy for protecting weak or exposed public facilities, such as water treatment plants; modifying the policy for the extension of federal assistance to property owners without flood insurance; and increasing the availability of federal crop or flood insurance. It should be tied to the reduction of flood, erosion, or drought vulnerability. Another measure should be the expansion of the federal government's capacity to help local communities draw up and implement plans, which would address jointly residential, commercial, recreational, agricultural and wildfire goals in adjusting to flood disasters. There may already be current measures receiving attention from the concerned, such as improvements in flood insurance, but the other measures mentioned developed out of the consequences of the 1993 Flood (Myers).
The involvement of the federal government in coping with the work and consequences of flood disasters grew since 1825 (Myers 1993). Their initial and principal involvement was navigation, which provided only incidental benefits for flood management. In the past, floods were considered as a problem within the realm of local and State levee districts. Since the major flood of 1850, however, it was arrived at in the lower Mississippi basin that some broad program was needed to cope with recurrent flood...
Psychological Distress in a Natural Disaster Among the many problems that humans encounter following a natural disaster is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD can result from natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados among other frightening natural events that cause damage and result in serious injuries and loss of life. When humans are exposed to horrific natural disasters they may continue to carry the fearful events in their memories;
Topography of Louisiana Louisiana encompasses an area of 51,844 square miles, and is the 31st largest state. The elevations of Louisiana range from 8 ft below sea level at New Orleans to a maximum of 535 ft at Driskill Mt, with a mean elevation of 100-ft (Buchanan, W.C., 1957, pp1-6). Along the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana's coastline is 397 miles long. All of Louisiana lies within the Gulf Coastal Plain.
The fact is that numerous rooted macrophyte structures are not full of naturally strong and healthy particles and sediments and nutrients. It is because of the restriction or absence of these particles, sediments and nutrients that the study of these systems has not been as extensive and thorough as the concentration on the terrestrial structures when understanding the fate, sources and sinks of Co2 levels in the ecosystems and the
Emergency Planning Hazard Potential Grid Criteria Proba- bility Predic- tability Fre- quen- cy Speed of Onset Control- lability Op- tions Scope and Inten- sity Assis- tance Com- munity Vulnera- bility Score Hazard Earthquake Flood Terrorist attack Act of war Tornado Blizzard Lowest risk within ten years =1; highest risk = 5 Earthquake: St. Louis is about 200 miles from the New Madrid Fault, but because of the geology of the region, shock waves travel a very long distance with considerable force. A major New Madrid Fault earthquake could destroy many vulnerable buildings,
However, the rapid pace of urbanization in Asian, African and Latin American countries has served to stimulate "several studies of water problems in megacities, secondary cities, peri-urban areas, and squatter settlements." (Muir, 2007) That the management of water is emphasized on the state level in the United States is stated to come as little surprise in a country characterized by a federal system of government. This is because "Constitutional authority
(Famous Cattle Trails) The Trail in fact aided in the collection of herds of cattle from San Antonio, Helena and Texana in the south and Uvalde, and also from Comanche and Fort Worth, from further north. From Fort Worth, the Chisolm Trail goes straight northwards, and crosses the Red River at Red River Station, and when it reaches the Indian Nation Territory, it passes through Rush Springs, Kingfisher and Hennessy
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