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How did the local population react and how did they respond

How did the local population react and how did they respond

Specifics for Research Paper #1 – divide paper into the following 5 sections…

Introduction – what happened, when, how does it fit within the category of disasters in U. S. history?

How did the local population react and how did they respond?

How did the government react? How did the government respond?

What lessons where learned from this event? What lessons were not followed?

Based on your knowledge of this disaster and others, what are your recommendations for residents living in regions where this type of disaster could happen again?

 

 

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Hurricane Galveston – Sept. 8, 1900

bustling island community was the hub of the cotton trade and Texas’ largest city.

category 4 hurricane – 135 mph winds

buildings crumbled under the force of 15-foot-high waves.

estimated 8,000 people perished

 

Hurricane Katrina – Aug. 29, 2005

hit Louisiana coast with 125 mph winds

storm surge broke levees that protected New Orleans from coastal waters

80% of the city under water

killed at least 1,836 people &damages around $125 billion

 

Dust Bowl – 1930’s (Great Depression era)

before 1930’s Great Plains was a farmer’s paradise

decade-long droughttransformed loose topsoil into dust

windstorms blew eastward, darkening skies as far away as the Atlantic Coast.

a third of the farmers turned to government aid,

while around half a million Americans were left homeless.

 

Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake – April 18, 1906

quake unleashed a chain of events that caused the city to burn for 4days

estimated 7.7- to 7.9-magnitude temblor

broke natural gas mains, which sparked the fires, but also damaged water mains,

more than 500 city blocks, and 3,000 deaths &approximately 225,000 homeless

 

Okeechobee Hurricane – September 16, 1928

residents warned & evacuated but hurricanehadn’t arrived on schedule, many returned home

storm slammed ashore later that night with 140 mph winds

broke a small dike … weeks of heavy flooding claimed 2,500+ lives

 

Heat Wave of 1980 – Summer of 1980

one of the nation’s most catastrophic prolonged weather events.

above 90 degrees Fahrenheit for most of the summer … central and southern U. S.

$48 billion in agricultural damage tallied an estimated due drought

10,000 people died from heat and heat stress-related ailments

 

Heat Wave of 1988 – Summer of 1988

total rainfall along the Great Plains lower than during Dust Bowl plus heat wave

$61+ billion damage to agriculture economy

drought resulted in wildfires – Yellowstone National Park& Mount Rushmore

1000s of heat related deaths

 

Peshtigo Fire – October 8, 1871

Wisconsin fire(nation’s deadliest) – same day as Great Chicago Fire of 1871

drought plus windstorm =fires in Peshtigo & prairie fires – over 1 mil. acres

scorched 12 towns and left roughly 1,200 dead

 

Tri-State Tornado – March 18, 1925

3 ½ hours across Illinois, Missouri & Indiana – 695 deaths

track of tornado 219 miles (world record)&path from .75 miles to 3 miles wide

estimated F5 category – (Fujita scale not around then) – wind speeds 300+ mph

forecasters looked into developing a tornado warning system

 

Johnstown Flood – May 31, 1889

late 19th Century, the small steel industrial community

poorly maintained South Fork dam that stood high up in the mountains, 14 miles from the city, failed.

days of torrential downpourdam to burst … 20+ million tons of water and debris crashed down on city with tremendous force

leveled 1,600 homes and killed 2,209 people

 

Hurricane Andrew, August 1992

August 24 – made landfall in Homestead, Florida (rains started day before)

Category 5 – one of few to hit land as Cat 5&wind speeds 175 mph

65 deaths … $25 billion damages in Florida alone

worst damage in Florida, Louisiana, and Bahamas

 

San Francis Dam Disaster , March 12, 1928

San Francisquito Canyon

Construction began March 1925

Catastrophically failed on March 12, 1928

One of the worst civil engineering failures in the 20th century

 

Northridge Earthquake, January 17, 1992

17, 1994 – 4:30am

7 magnitude

buildings, bridges collapse

fatalities

 

Fires / Big Bear & Lake Arrowhead, October 2003

started Oct 25, 2003 in Old Waterman Canyon

bark beetle / drought blamed for severe spread of fire

destroyed almost 1000 buildings

burned over 91,000 acres&$42 million cost

 

 

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