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Unit: A3.10
Comparing management of LIC and HIC hazard
Case study: Hurricane Wilma hits Florida Questions concerning management of hazards – use as example of managing a tropical storm or management in an HIC When? October 24th 2005 at tea time How bad? Hurricane force 3 with 2.4 m surge
Impacts: Death: 6 directly caused by the hurricane due to wind-blown debris and another 23 caused during the response. Infrastructure damage- several flyover junctions were severely damages. High rise offices and flats also received damage too. Mobile homes were turned into match wood 3 million + lost power some for a couple of weeks Water was contaminated and had to be boiled in many areas for a week or 2 Management 1: Prediction Fully operational satellite stations monitoring all storms in the Caribbean area – scientist use this information to predict, when, where and how strong the winds, surges are likely to be. This is handed on to local area teams to help them decide what preparations need to be made Management 2: Have Action plan
County Emergency Management Committee have been drawn up. They have in place plans of which areas will be in particular danger, dependent on what information they are given. They have plans for opening and manning and equipping evacuation centres and run regular practice runs to make sure their plans work Management 4: Long term recovery and Management 3:Immediate short term future improvement plan response Tell people in dangerous areas to leave, by There wwere a few road junctions damaged that took a while to fix and the orange crop car if possible but to go to evacuation was lost that year – but seemingly little centres if not – supplied special centres permanent damage for those with special needs, elderly, However, they are investing more in replacing disabled etc. Have centre opened and housing with better protection e.g. the kind manned Order supplies of food and water of windows and tarps for short-term repair Also the government are helping to pay to Keep up to date on hotels with rooms for have more electricity lines under ground to evacuees. Etc – about 3 or 4 of these will reduce the number of people who loose power Annual week of practices in the event of a do variety of hazards LMcG
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Case study: Haitian earthquake Questions concerning management of hazards – use as example of managing a tectonic event or management in an LIC When? 12 Jan 2010 16.53 How bad? Earthquake of scale 7.0 Richter and with Mercalli shake scale up to X+ ( ten plus in Roman numerals) which means extreme shaking with very heavy damage in Puerto-au-Prince Impacts:
Estimated 230,000 people had died, 300,000 had been injured and 1,000,000 made homeless. They also estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged. Management 1: Prediction None as yet available Management 2: Have Action plan Due to extreme poverty AND the length of time since the last quake AND the 3 hurricanes the year before there was not action plan Management 4: Long term recovery and Management 3:Immediate short term future improvement plan response Immediate short term response = what is Again this is about what has/is being done – but this time in the long term and what they done at the time or shortly afterwards: are doing now to make things better in the 1. dealing with immediate danger future 2. medical care Tents and tarps are only slowly being replaced 3. water and food 6 months on with intermediate housing, built 4. Shelter to last 3 years only The question is here – what happened Building inspections are nearing completion, in after the earthquake and how well did which 50% of the building are safe and a they do all these things? further 25% need small repairs. Some new investment in the clothing industry The hospitals were damaged as much as will give several 1000 jobs, together with everywhere else so there was little Coca-Cola’s initiative to produce a mango drink medical care from fruit on the island which will be They did not have trained search rescue processed there in the near future giving people nor the technology to deal with it, more jobs. but teams from America, France, UK etc At the outset there were hopes that the huge arrived within 48 hours international effort who allow Haiti ‘ to be put Medical care was brought in by NGOs and back better than before’ foreign government but the destruction - with safe houses, clean water etc etc of the airport and the take over by US Not really happening yet
military slowed this up etc see PP LMcG
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