This is kinda like a "what if" question. This is a horrible disaster, and it is hurricane season. Would oil "get" into the rain, since water evaporates, to form rain? If this did happen it would be a disaster, or is it possible it would just be like a normal hurricane, with oil having no effect at all?
I am going to live with my dad soon for about 6 weeks. He lives right on the coast of southern North Carolina (3 minute walk from the ocean). I am a bit worried about what would happen in the case of a hurricane. What can I do to be prepared? I know that my dad and stepmom have the basics like food/water and emergency supplies or whatever but what can I do? I am 17, almost 18 by the way and I will have my own car there. Also, what happens in the case of a hurricane evacuation? Advice from someone who has experienced it? Thanks for your help!
Is anybody worried about this years hurricane season? Possibly up to 23 hurricanes? It worrys me because it gives the whole gulf coast a greater risk of getting hit by a hurricane. It’s crazy. Ive been thinking about buying hurricane supplies now to be better prepared. I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and I wasen’t prepared for Gustav at all and wasent too worried as it was a landfalling category 2. It ended up being the worst storm to ever hit Baton Rouge and I lost most of my roof in that storm, Along with my bathroom window and the pine trees in my yard. Should I start preparing now for possible storms this year? What are yall doing?
Now that we have massive amounts of oil in the Gulf of Mexico; what’s going to happen? Every Hurricane season we get at least one hurricane that comes in the Gulf, it’s almost inevitable. What’s going to happen this time? Will it slow it down? Will it sling oil all over 50 states? Or will we get one big tidal wave of oil coming on the beaches?
One, will the oil spill have an effect on the longevity of the season, the ferocity, or the damage caused?
Next, what will happen to the oil? I figure a lot of it will be blown depending on a potential hurricane’s path, but then do we have to deal with oil covered cities? Will the oil contaminate local water supplies?
Also, are oil rigs pre-designed to withstand a hurricane? Or is that something that we have to trust the regulators to ensure?
Finally, as of right now (the current distribution of oil), how long will it take for the cleanup to be complete? Months? Years? Decades? How long after that can we say that the environment is restored?
FYI- I put this in the Politics Section because I get answers more quickly, and they usually have better support/ sources, as biased as they may be.
I live in Florida and we are supposed to be getting ready for a bad hurricane season. We usually get everything we need, but are on a tight budget this year. I’m sure we will manage to get whatever we need, little by little, but it got me to thinking……What about the people who just don’t have the money? Have you ever seen the supply list?
Are all of you ready if a hurricane or any other major storm hits your area?
In 2004, hurricanes damaged large parts of Florida, destroying homes, businesses, schools, and infrastructure. In strictly economic terminology, these hurricanes are said to have caused
A.absolute advantages, because some areas of the country were damaged when others were not.
B. scarcity, because some goods were difficult to get.
C. shortages, because supplies were cut off and goods were destroyed.
D.scarcity, because the damages made food and shelter scarce.
I’m thinking B or D
Under rent controls
A.the quantity supplied of rental units is greater than it would be under freely competitive markets.
B.there is a severe shortage of rental units.
C. all renters are better off than under freely competitive markets.
D.there is less government involvement in rental markets overall because there is a better supply of low-income housing.
I think A or C
please don’t give me wrong answer thanks
I was just sitting here thinking about the high gas prices and the future. I drive a daily route that somedays consists of 200+ miles round trip by the time I get back home. Its my job and im glad to have one. I have cut,trimmed and am doing everything I can to counter the high gas prices.Im now just looking down the road a bit and was wondering,
"what impact would a large Hurricane or two, say a cat 4 or 5 in the Gulf do to the already high prices at the pump?"
A plane is flying over the devastated region around Jamaica after Hurricane Ivan. It will drop supplies of food and clothing to the people stranded below. The plane is flying at 20m/s horizontally and is at a height of 2km from the ground. What distance from the island does the pilot have to release the supplies so that they land on the island?
I know that the answer is 404m before reaching the island, but I don’t know how to solve it.
• Only 2 percent of the federal government’s hurricane-related funding went toward education recovery.
• The costs of hurricane destruction in K-12 and higher education were estimated at .2 billion, but only .2 billion in federal funding had been committed to restoring physical structures and property. Some rebuilding funds have come from the local and state levels and insurance, but several projects are unfinished.
• Displaced students re-enrolled in schools in 49 states, but a lack of adequate federal funding meant that schools with the greatest number of displaced students had insufficient classrooms, staff and supplies to support them. The report found that as many as 15,000 K-12 public school students and 35,000 college students in Louisiana and Mississippi missed school last year due to lingering problems associated with Katrina.
• Nearly one out of every six students in Louisiana’s public colleges and universities dropped out for the 2005-06 school year. In the 2006-07 school year, more than 26,000 students from Louisiana public colleges and almost 9,000 Mississippi college students remained out of school.
If i want to make a hurricane in a bottle, for a project, how do i make it look real?
Also, what can I put in it?
I have lived in New Orleans for 7 months. Obviously there is not a huge supply of used furniture, household goods, etc., in the city due to the extensive damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. With that said, does anyone know of any good used stores, still up and running, or newly opened in the area? I am looking for great old furniture, pottery, etc.. Any information would be greatly appreciated!
There is a major hurricane headed for your area. It is entirely likely that you could be without water for a week or more. You may be able to get a few gallons of water from relief supplies after the hurricane, but these would be for drinking water. The supplies may not arrive for many hours. Take into account your family’s daily water usage as determined in this activity, what steps would you take to ensure your family’s survival and comfort?
I am interested to know. I already heard of Mitch and The Great Hurricane of 1780, and those are all in the Atlantic. If you have an answer can you please send me some satellite picture links? Thanks.
Consider this scenario:
There is a major hurricane headed for your area. It is entirely likely that you could be without water for a week or more. You may be able to get a few gallons of water from relief supplies after the hurricane, but these would be for drinking water. The supplies may not arrive for many hours. Take into account your family’s daily water usage as determined in this activity, what steps would you take to ensure your family’s survival and comfort?
I’m having trouble making heads or tails of this… I’d appreciate everyones opinion on the matter… Thanks!
NEW YORK — Retiree Gene O’Brien hurried to the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, 2001, as a volunteer helping to shuttle supplies to police and fire workers. Some days, his only ID to get into the disaster site was a tattoo on his forearm.
"A couple times I showed them my Marine tattoo, and they said go ahead," recalled O’Brien, adding that he and other volunteers also came up with their own makeshift identification cards.
"We didn’t forge anything, we just made them up with our own pictures and at one point we copied a UPC code off a Pepsi can and they were as good as gold," said the Scarsdale resident.
It might not be so easy the next time disaster strikes.
In an effort to provide better control and coordination, the federal government is launching an ambitious ID program for rescue workers to keep everyday people from swarming to a disaster scene. A prototype of the new first responder identification card is already being issued to fire and police personnel in the Washington, D.C., area.
Proponents say the system will get professionals on scene quicker and keep untrained volunteers from making tough work more difficult.
But they also know it is a touchy subject, particularly for those devoted to helping in moments of crisis.
"Wow, how in the world do we say this without love and respect in our hearts?" said deputy assistant U.S. Fire Administrator Charlie Dickinson.
"Everybody wants to come to the fight, so to speak, and no one wants to step back and say ‘No, I can’t do this.’ The final coup de grace was the World Trade Center. Hundreds came that were never asked," Dickinson said. "Good intentions, good hearts, and it was extremely difficult for the fire department and the other departments to deal with them."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency came up with the idea after the World Trade Center attack and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when countless Americans rushed to help — unasked, undirected, and sometimes unwanted.
Many of those volunteers angrily dispute the notion they were a burden. They insist that in many instances they were able to deliver respirators, hard hats, and protective boots to workers when no one else seemed able.
Ground zero volunteer Rhonda Shearer and her daughter launched a fast-moving supply system that bypassed regular channels, often infuriating city officials.
Even as she delivered box trucks packed with supplies over months of recovery work, she increasingly ended up in a cat-and-mouse game with New York City’s police and emergency management agency.
Shearer, 53, said the experience convinced her that agencies are ill-equipped to handle major disasters — but don’t want outsiders pointing out their failings.
Similar frustrations arose after Katrina, when people were shocked that the government struggled to take basic supplies such as water to the worst areas.
"They’re more worried about keeping volunteers out than doing an analysis of what really went wrong," Shearer said. "Independent citizens need to be involved, where we have no ax to grind or cross to bear. But we will tell the truth, and we will tell what we see and bear witness to the incompetence."
Dickinson, the federal fire official, said the government is not trying to discourage volunteers, but he thinks there should come a time, within a few days of a disaster, when civilians step back and let the professionals take control.
Supporters say the ID cards could be checked at a disaster area with a card-reader device and used to verify a person’s unique skills. For example, if police officers have been trained to handle hazardous materials, officials at the scene could deploy them to an area where their skills would be best put to use.
For reasons ranging from general safety to protection from lawsuits, construction and demolition companies want to see a disaster ID card program succeed.
Mike Taylor, executive director of the National Demolition Association, said his industry is talking with aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger about putting it in place in his state.
"If California goes ahead and does that, it will flow across the country. This is a really smart idea by someone in the Bush administration to be able to control access to the site and frankly, make sure there are no untrained people," Taylor said. "If somebody goes running down to the site, you have to stop and ask them, wait, are they certified to do this work?"
I know I should get windows that can stand hurricane force winds, I just forgot what the name of it was. Also, what else could I get to protect my house and the items inside it? Sources?
its not like he is an all powerful dictator. we have a system of checks and balances so that the president doesn’t have complete power. if congress really thought we needed to be out of iraq, we would be out of iraq. Bush doesn’t have the power to use all of the earths resources unsustainably. that is done by the people of our country. my point is that Bush is not at fault for everything that people blame on him. i even heard of people blaming hurricane katrina happening because of him. people say that bush didn’t get supplies down to New orleans fast enough. how is that his fault. does anyone really think bush was talking to fema people say "lets make the people of new orleans suffer a bit longer" NO Way would anyone do that.
I’m having some trouble w/ direct, and indirect objects [grammar]. Could you help me? Can you explain it to me in an easy way to understand?
Some questions:
Identify if the bold faced word as Direct Object [DO], Indirect Objects [IO], or none [N
1. A hurricane is a powerful, swirling storm (storm is boldfaced)
2. Meteoroligists watched a big storm carefully (storm)
3. Newscasters gave their listeners warnings about the hurricane.(listeners)
4. The hurricane struck land in the morning. (land)
5. The hurricane winds swirled around the eye of the storm. (storm)
6. The hurrican caused huge waves. (waves)
7. The waves produced widespread floods. (floods)
8. The floodwaters destroyed many people’s property. (property)
9. Television newscasts showed their audiences pics of the storm. (audiences)
10. Volunteers sent the hurricane victims emergency supplies. (victims)
Thanks, if you don’t want to answer the q’s, s’ok, but pleaseee explain it to me clearly.
I am doing a powerpoint on Hurricane Katrina, and I need to know what the government did during and over the first year to help? I know they should have done more, but I need to know what they did do, and also what else they could have done.
I have looked on google, and its too much info i just need a summary.
I didn’t write it, but I’m not sure I get exactly how to infer this. Thank you
A ravenous river of lachrymal acid trickles down my
chemical cheekbones in contaminated torrents as the
flood deluging from either oculus stains my pillowcase
with saturated saline, smearing sadistic sentimentality,
fiercely flowing on my face like a harlot bleeding black
It’s funny, isn’t it ?
how you remind me of a trollop ?
I’m like a back alley maudlin abortion,
numb retinas from saltwater hurricanes
supplying enough H2O to drown your lungs
and quench your vomit-flavored thirst
in the same way you never completely
fill up my desiccated starving appetite
You’re like two peas in a pod,
but peas have always made me throw up.
you’re like the perfect pair,
but I’ve never really liked pears.
you’re like jealousy-inflicted bulimia,
but crying from my mouth erases nine
pounds of memory-flavored fat from my
teardrop-shaped skeleton of nostalgia.
The way you mimic my insalubrious bone structure,
matches how I see your separate sentence structure.
Like a period and a comma, grammatically different, yet so indifferent;
punctual: closer together, more intimate when undivided by sentences.
when I used to play connect-the-semicolons, I had a hard time tracing
your every step, color by color, hydrating your hunger with artless art,
but I was never one to color in the lines.
You tricked me into believing that if I ate
my vegetables I’d grow up big and strong
but of course you were wrong,
force feeding 57 karat carrots
to fix my rain clouded vision,
to dry the cascading cataracts,
because puking out waterfalls
and coughing up dictionaries
isn’t sanitary according to you.
Unless I want my arteries clogged with Lust
and a traumatic heart attack at age eighteen,
I’d better follow your strict diet of eggshells
that you prepare by walking on for me, but I
like my eggs envy-green and a bit scrambled
to match my habit of sitting on unsafe walls,
leaving myself vulnerable to fall backwards,
causing you to laugh as my skull cracks open
on the charcoal pavement, as my food digests,
my stomach sick with you-shaped salmonella;
YOUR nutrition is the ONLY nutrition, you tell me
as you count the calories on boxes of Cheerios,
but I’ve always hated perfect health.
Our "friend", proclaimed handyman, really got us for home improvements costs. During his work, he asked for ,500. which (duh) I gave him by check written out "cash" w/comments on the bottom "home improvement." I paid for all supplies. Long story short, 75% of work is not finished. He tried to put a sprinkler system in our yard, but had no clue. Our screens on back porch are now in place, but he never finished cutting them properly. We live in FL & Hurricane Katrina did a bit of damage. We paid for a pressure cleaner which he used 1st for his own home & charged us for the rental & /hr. to shoot a bit around our home. Twice he used a snake to unclog, but Draino works. He presented me w/a bill & I could not read it. All scribbles, but thinking he was a good friend of my husband, I wrote him a ,500 check. Later we argued about the unfinished work & I fired him. Can I get any money back? Would appreciate any advice or experiences. TY — Patti H
There is a major hurricane headed for your area. It is entirely likely that you could be without water for a week or more. You may be able to get a few gallons of water from relief supplies after the hurricane, but these would be for drinking water. The supplies may not arrive for many hours, what steps would you take to ensure your family’s survival and comfort?
Ever since 2004 and Katrina these idiot Meteorologist predict a busy hurricane season, I think they are buying into the global catastrophe theories that the Discovery channel is burning out. I want a job where I make 100000. a year, wrong 90% of the time and still don’t get fired.
Gas prices have fallen sharply in the past MONTH and a half.
Despite the fact gas prices are based on supply and demand , demand has only risen while supplies have been mildly harmed by BP’s pipeline problems and problems withint he infrastructure dating back to Hurricane Katrina.
Many of us aren’t fools though. WE KNOW THAT GAS PRICES ARE DROPPING BECAUSE THIS IS ELECTION YEAR (less than 2 months away).
My question is, how many people are going to let falling gas prices SWAY their vote?
America has been using the national debt and astronomical military spending to subsidize the true cost of fuel. This is not an opinion, this is an accepted fact among political researchers. You can bother to investigate it yourself.
JUST KNOW, AFTER NOVEMBER, GAS PRICES ARE RIGHT BACK UP TO .25 – I’m willing to bet money on that.
We’re about to have a hurricane, which means we might be without water. I know that you can manually fill a toilet to get it to flush, but do you put the water in the bowl or the tank?
Convince me! Because right now I am disinclined! I feel they(the rich of Mexico) use us to supply Welfare to their Poor! Why should I want to do that? I would rather and do help our poor…LET THEM START TAKING CARE OR THEIR OWN!!! Why should I?
I need 5factors on how the Nat hurricane center forecast hurricanes and when a storm is likely to move? Please help.
I’m looking for a place where I can find inexpensive accessories for my wedding. Things such as hurricanes for candels, tiaras, long white gloves. Does any know of any place? I’ve been lookin at Orientaltrading.com but I need something different but along those lines. thanks