Do major changes need to be made in the national response to future disasters?
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We have plans in place. There are entire departments devoted to bioterrorism surveillance.\n\nThere are protocols that have been standardized for dealing with major biological disasters. I work for a major metropolitan health department, so we train extensively for these things. Fortunately, we have not yet needed to use the training. \n\nWe use the the Incident Command System to organize ourselves to deal with disasters. That's a hierarchy to delegate tasks across groups of workers. Pick a person to be in charge of a small group. Let that person make orders, you report back with your info and duties.\n\nIn the event of any biological incident, my specific role as an epidemiologist would be to find the incident, identify it and control it. Of course, if there's a real disaster at hand, I think I'll have to do the same heavy lifting as everyone else. Gotta prioritize.
627641
Depends on the change being proposed.
553749
There are many changes I would like to see by the end of the 21st century. Changes with peace, hunger, AIDs, the list goes on and on. If I had to pick three these would be it : ____,____, and ____.\n\nthat can be a help for the 1st paragraph. the next 3 paragraps can tell what you'd change & why. The last can be the 1st paragraph re-worded.
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41 out of 50 States have had Flood Map Revisions since 2004 - with the vast majority of them in recent months. When Flood Maps are revised, it is up to you to protect yourself, your home, your family and your assets. \nSome people who were previously NOT located in a FEMA designated flood zone - now are (and vice-versa).
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the biggest botch was the people that were told to evacuate and did not.  Most had vehicles and were able to but just didnt do it. The second biggest botch was by Mayor Nagin.  Had he used the buses to eveacute the people like he was supposed to, it would of saved manyh lives.  The 3rd botch was that the stadium was supposed to be stocked with water and wasnt.  They were not prepared.  The last botch was FEMA moved too slowly.  Lots of blame to go around.
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My answer is ot supposed to completly argue on the subject, but it may yet give something to think about!!\n\nBecause when humans come up in an area without changing it, they settle in an armless way (if they notice a flooding risk, they adapt themselves to the area: egyptian with the Nile 3000 years ago for exemple).\nOn the other hand, when they show up and develop altering the area situation, such things as flooding that did not happen before may occur. Which would explain why most of the disaster happen in these cases.\n\nMy opinion is that humans should always try to adapt themselves to the situations instead of trying to adapt the situations to themselves (which tend to be more and more frequent unfortunatly).
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We need to but out of the worlds business and take care of ours. The world has a police force called the United Nations let them handle it if there is a problem. If things come our way then yes we need to take action.I would say that if things don't come together the next 10 generations aren't going to have much of a world because some country wants to try and blow it up. Radiation isn't a pretty thing to see and can you imagine what the children would look like from the fall out of such a weapon of mass destruction. I am a very firm believer in protecting the HOME FRONT if thing happen, but lets not be the one to start it.
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Your probably gonna be looking at droughts, and earthquakes.\n\n\nThese might help\nhttp://www.disastercenter.com/disaster/TOP100K.html\nhttp://www.ndmindia.nic.in/\n\nhope that helps
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I TOO PREPARED THE SAME PROJECT LAST YEAR. U CAN USE THE BOOK DISASTER MANAGEMENT WHICH IS FOR CLASS 9& 10TH. ORGO TO wikipedia.com, encarta.com ,.i got it from encarta encyclopedia.
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we already have welfare, food stamps, government housing, and medical care. there shouldnt be any other special programs. new orleans has been taken down in the past by hurricanes, it will happen again. it is a stront city, it has rebuilt on its own in the past without the help of the government. i lived in texas where rita went through. i lost almost everything as far as possessions go. i'm not accepting handouts from the government. i moved, life continued on. when the weather dictates that you evacuate, you dont just sit there and then expect compensation for your own lack of listening. i say the government should completely back out of rebuilding new orleans and let it do what it needs to to rebuild itself. people with money will invest, it will come back bigger, better, and stronger.
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No. The changes aren't good, they lead to confusions. We shouldn't change the established rules even if they are from the early days of physics. Tradition and quality,  they go hand in hand.  Maybe if a extraterrestrial civilization will conquer the Earth, they will be electrocuted by our machines, or at least they couldn't use them. This is a good policy to protect ourselves from intruders.
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Maybe if we launch a nuke near where tectonic plates are and cause an earthquake, then a tsunami...That's severe. But if you're talking about everyday activities like watering the flowers, I don't think that can contribute to servere weather such as hurricanes.
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nothing really.\n\ntake a look at the climate statistics in last 200,000 years and you will see the changes happening currently is negligible compared what happened in the past.\n\nit does not mean tough times are not ahead, with global warming sea levels will rise up 30+ feet. \nBye bye Venice unfortunately... Probably that will be the least of our problems. Warm water currents will be disrupted severly and Northern, Western Europe will be frozen...\n\ni still believe in an eternal balance.. as long as we human beings dont push it too hard it should manage to find a equilibrium of its own.\n\ngood luck and dont buy a house near the coast line.
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Not yet, I know that.\nBut I have a feeling Bush will do something to change that very soon.
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a natural disaster such as earthquakes are possible anywhere.  just some areas (along fault lines) are more prone to the effects.  For my money, i would be most worried about a large volcano that spews ash into the atmosphere and causes the earth's climate to dramatically change.  Not much you can do about that!
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In a National Emergency, that is his job.\n\nWe need to mobilize an entire country in order to address Emergency needs.\n\nKatrina is a good example.  The Emergency was declared, but the local Government wanted the credit and did not involve the Federal Government until too late.