How does race impacts America's response to disaster's?
156447
It doesn't, except in people's twisted minds.  Whether certain groups of people believe it or not, there are people of all races (including whites) still living in shelters after last year's hurricanes (all, not just Katrina) and people of all races left homeless, people of all races still waiting for some financial aid, and people of all races that may never get any.\n\nLike it or not, no matter what race you are, if you did not work and did not own a home before the disaster, you should not expect a home to just be given to you for nothing.
2773
Very key question.\n\nFor a start, try the US Government web site for emergency preparations ready.gov -- see link below.\n\nAlso important is the Red Cross site.\n\nA good idea is to buy a NOAA all-hazard weather radio at Walmart, Kmart, Target or Radio Shack. This will alert you to weather and other disaster conditions.\n\nGodspeed!
1011813
i will say this IS THE BIGGEST SHAME, to americans when they called the katrina victims REFUGEES, because most of them were blacks, the world laughed at bush administration and americans in general, they responded too slow, why??
907169
Every nation should have an emergency response plan.  I don't know what you mean by "MKN", though.\n\nIt is abundantly clear that there is active geology not far away (Indonesia particularly).  It is also obvious that rain and storms are no stranger to the land.  Considering the political problems of the neighborhood and Islamist fundamentalists nearby, as soon as some of those figure the government isn't as strongly "with it" as they might like, then bombs and murderous mobs might be springing up anywhere and at anytime.  When things are bad, you need to act, not stop to wonder "Where and what do we need?"\n\nOf course, 'the best laid plans of mice and men" concept goes to work too.  The Katrina hurricane in the US showed a good example of "Murphey" and his famous "law" of what can go wrong will go wrong, as we had (1) supplies stockpiled and they were too close to the disaster, (2) political oversight that was either incompetent or too busy with their own little turf interests, or (3) too much assuming going on as to what lines of communication and conveyances would still be functional afterwards.  If we can fumble the ball so badly, so could Malaysia or anyone else for that matter--even with a plan.
747847
I'm sorry to tell you that the spread of pathogens is an ever present danger during and after any earthquake. Just look at the recent example in Pakistan, just a few months ago. \nThey are thankful my fellow American doctors helped as much as humanly possible!\nTake care and be safe !!!
138810
I think America thinks that Cincinnati is pretty conservative and racially divided.  I live in Cincinnati, so I agree with that somewhat, although the media tends to make things seem worse than they really are.  It seems like we are only in the media when something bad happens.
71636
Not really.  To some extent or another, every state usually has some sort of natural disaster you'd have to worry about at one point or another.  You do realize, of course, that the safer states are the ones with the natural disasters that don't occur very often... and yet, when they DO occur, it's for major damage?\n\nBesides.... if you wanted to live some place where there's it's completely safe.... then it'd be in Alaska.  I'm fairly sure there's areas up there where you wouldn't have to worry about too much snow - but then again, there have been earthquakes up there...  never mind.  I don't think there's any place on the EARTH where it'd be disaster free, unless you want to live in a deep cave protected against outside elements in the center of a tectonic plate.......!\n\nBut, you know, I used to live in Michigan, and we never had to worry about mudslides, volcanoes, avalanches, wind storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, or droughts.  Sure, we had the very occasional hail storm, very VERY occasional wind/ice storm, and every winter we'd get a nice snow storm sometimes a blizzard, and lightning storms were normal, but not very severe like down south, occasional floods... and twisters/tornadoes were not unheard of, either.  But nothing like in Kansas!  ... But I did see a couple there.... \n\nAnyway.  Just so you know, there's always something that can happen anywhere....
727242
Hello:\nBy police power I think you mean the government's right to act to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens.\n\nIf so, I found an article that looks like it is on-point:\n\nHURRICANE KATRINA AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH-BASED ARGUMENT FOR GREATER FEDERAL INVOLVEMENT IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE\n\nBy David L. Feinberg \n\nVirginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law\nSpring 2006\n\n\nAt page 607 it discusses police power relative to natural disasters.\n\nGood luck!
76631
no, New Orleans was a hazard waiting to happen and nothing substantial should have ever been developed there, the people who lived there were in danger the whole time they've been there, it was just simply overlooked
939631
You have a good point. I just returned from a trip to the Mississippi coast. There is still a lot of storm damage yet to be fixed. Insurance companies have refused to pay settlements claiming the storm surge flooding caused all the damage. People are still living in campers in the driveways of their destroyed homes. More than half of the businesses haven't reopened, and lots of people are without jobs.\nIt was hard for me to believe I was still in America.
775064
Yes many people have been affected by this. Hope this answer helps
355525
I bet if you looked at the overall population in the area that was hit by Kartrina, I bet it would show that the majority of it was occupied by white people, (only the city of New Orleans is probably one of the few areas that has a majority black population) yet the deaths are probably nearly equal... so if there were many more white people hit, yet almost an equal number died, then it's not a very pretty picture...
218556
Find specific disasters caused by the Ring of Fire and describe the effects and the aftermath. Also describe what engineering standards have been designed to prevent future disasters. Effects don't have to be limited only to the disasters themselves... you can focus on political policies, engineering standards, building codes, disaster preparedness, emotional issues (i.e., how have people learned how to cope with post-disaster stress), along with similar factors. So focus on the country's REACTION as well as the disaster's ACTION.
435542
Sadly, civil war/genocide in sub-sahara Africa just isn't important to Americans because it doesn't really have an ecomomic impact on them or our country like the illegal Mexican immigration issue.  If they had oil, if their refugees were flooding across our border, or even if we shared a common culture (and sadly maybe skin color) you can bet more attention would be paid.
1182442
For you information, we did NOT get aid immediately, it was nearly 1 week and a half after that we got ANY acknowledgment of being alive.  I live in Northwest Florida and we still have damage.  There are people with blue roofs still after nearly 2 years (Hurricane Ivan).  We had no help from anyone, we were completely ignored!  The gym at one of the local high schools had the roof ripped off, and just recently was it replaced.  The reason we were "better off" was that we actually prepared. I feel pity for them yes, but hardly guilt, they got relief faster than we did.
144533
Reaction was not slow. Implementation and action was slow. Politics got in the way of many things when it should not have.\n\nMistakes were made, but the good thing is that change will result because of it. It must be remembered though that mistakes happen in dealing with ANY crisis. I don't care if it is government, business, or personal. Nothing can be predicted 100%. Influence and control within organizations is also never 100%.\n\nI do not think that there was any conspiracy though. Nothing against African Americans, or New Orleans itself. There was no ill will by Bush, nor by the administration, nor by FEMA, nor by local authorities. Stuff just went wrong.
494214
I don't know if it was the government's plot to reduce the black population but it sure did work.  When Katrina hit; the American Government showed their butts by not helping out the American People.  They did anything in their power not to help by delaying the trailers and the transportation.  Katrina showed us as an American of what our government is all about when it comes to disaster in an black population.