Three post-Hurricane Katrina disaster planning lessons learned: have a prepared evacuation plan for the city‚ do not delay aid‚ and a lack of resources imposes greater difficulties of rebuilding. The mandatory evacuation call was late and not fully supported—many people did not have a way to leave the city‚ as many people were dependent on public transportation. Could have neighboring buses come in earlier and brought people to safety? I think the Mayor later got criticized for not using school buses
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When the war just started (2003-2004)‚ an oil bar was $24‚- a barrel. It went up to $143‚- in 2011 and nowadays the price fell down to $122‚80 which is still almost 5 times the price it was before the war. The rise of the oil price has been a disaster for all the people around the world because the benzene/gas prices have risen driving a car has become very expensive. When you load your car with fuel (Euro95 in Holland) you need to pay between €1.654 and €1.714 per litter. The product made out
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help of all the delegates present today. Atomic radiation exists due to the use of atomic and nuclear weaponry and the malfunction or disasters in nuclear plants. The effects of atomic radiation have become a major global concern. One of the most recent disasters due to atomic radiation is the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown. It was the most extensive nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Radiation release critically contaminated a "dead zone" of several hundred square kilometers around the plant‚ and low
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D Disaster Recovery Plan Student Name: Carol Young University of Phoenix IT/244 Intro to IT Security Instructor’s Name: Jamie Rost Date: 4/13/2013 Disaster Recovery Plan Due in Week Three: For your selected scenario‚ describe the key elements of the Disaster Recovery Plan to be used in case of a disaster and the plan for testing the DRP. Risk Assessment Critical business processes List the mission-critical business systems and services that must be protected by the DRP. Disaster recovery
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Technology 4 Embankment Drive Road Sector 10‚ Uttara Model Town‚ Uttara‚ Dhaka 1230 Tel: 02 896 3523-27‚ 01716 583558‚ Fax: 02 892 2625 E-mail: rs_gism@yahoo.com Abstract: Bangladesh is one of the most natural disaster prone areas in the World. The different types of disasters like flood‚ cyclonic storms‚ tidal surges‚ droughts‚ tornadoes‚ riverbank erosion‚ earthquake‚ etc. occur frequently in Bangladesh. Identifying the vulnerable areas with reference to natural hazards causing damage to
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even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations. We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are. People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else’s. They join and support various international organosation and green parties. If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we’ll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.
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Differences between natural hazards and natural disasters 1 A hazard is an event or object that is a potential source of harm to community. A disaster occurs as the result of a hazardous event that dramatically affects a community. Natural Hazards Human Hazards Atmospheric – eg cyclones‚ hailstorms‚ blizzards or bushfires. Technological – accidents‚ explosions or hazardous materials. Hydrological – eg example‚ flooding‚ wave action or glaciers Human – eg. War‚ crowd stampede and terrorism
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Alpha Piper Disaster Introduction The accident‚ which occurred on board of the seaward platform Piper Alpha in July 1988‚ took lives of 167 people and cost billions of dollars damage of property. The Piper Alpha is placed in the North Sea‚ around 193 km northeast of Aberdeen. The field was discovered in January 1973 and the same year construction of platform took place. The depth of it was up to 140 m‚ and at the time the development and installation of the Piper Alpha platform give tongue to
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explosion. The Met department recorded a tremor measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale around the time the first explosion at 7:36 pm which resulted in shattering of glass window nearly 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the accident site. The fire was a major disaster in terms of deaths‚ injury‚ loss of business‚ property and man-days‚ displacement of people‚ environmental impact in Jaipur‚ the capital city of the Indian state of Rajasthan and a popular tourist destination. As per eyewitnesses having factories
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PROFESSION - A STUDY OF A CPA FIRM’S DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING Stanley X. Lewis‚ Jr.‚ Troy University Eddy J. Burks‚ Troy University Ernest W. King‚ University of Southern Mississippi Carl Smolinski‚ LSU-Shreveport ABSTRACT The results of an ongoing study of professional accounting firms in the U. S existing research methodology and results included in the 2006 IRMA International Conference reporting the strategic planning by a law firm pertaining to its disaster planning and recovery using information
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