what are the social consequences of a tropical cyclone?
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Depends on where it hits and how strong it is. \n\nNew Orleans is an example of how big a social impact a single storm can have. Katrina wiped out the heart of the French influenced part of the US. It will likely cause the demise of FEMA. It has all but elimanated a mayor. It should have caused us to analyze why so many people did not leave despite a manidotry evacuation. Instead many Black groups are yelling racism when the majority of the people living in hard hit areas were poor Blacks. So therefore they were the most affected. The poor lived in areas that were hardest hit because those areas are the cheapest to live in. In New Orleans Blacks make up a disproportinate number of the poor and an even larger disproportionate share of them decided to ride out the hurricane. How this is racism I am still trying to figure out. Nobody asked them much less forced them to stay. All races got the same neglect when it came to Federal aid. It was a beuacratical snafu not a concious choice on anybodies part. \n\nIn the case of Niceraga, after one particulerly devastating hurricane, the nation saw it's economy just about wiped out. This caused a huge wave of people moving elsewhere to work as well as taking a really heavy toll on the poor of that nation. \n\nIn the case of the summer of 04 and 05 in the US. It may completely redefine how somebody gets homeowner's insurance and may depopulate the Gulf coast for a time while new hurricane proof housing is built. If 06 is just as active, a very likely prospect. You will see another major American city wiped out. The nation as a whole and insurance carriers are going to want out of hurricane prone areas. \n\nIn Burma whole areas were wiped out by a particulerly nasty cyclone. Wbole subetnic groups basically disapeered as entire areas were destroyed. \n\nEven a relitively peaceful storm like Alisson which hit Houston then traveled accross the nation has caused noticable impacts. In the case of Allision it showed just how vulnerable the Houston/Galveston area was to flooding. It has prompted numerous projects to provide better drainage and debates about future development and watershed loss. It might result in a much more ecologically friendly Houston in the long term. It also might save millions of lives if a big storm comes ashore. Beyond Texas Allison caused flooding in several other states and showed flaws in our warning systems and our perception of storms being dangerous primarily because of wind speed. It may even eventually add a precipitation scale to the wind speed scale when it comes to measuring a tropical cyclone. \n\nThe primary inpacts are damage from a storm. Relivence to future inhabitation of that area. Economics in the region. Loss of life actual and potential. The secondary impacts are recovery. How well an area recovers can cause major shifts in politics, religion and fundemental ways of life.
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If you mean social influences affecting the perpetuation of the traditional nuclear family, then there would be negative effects.  Media representations of families support non-traditional family settings and rely on extended families and friendship kinships more often that a traditional family scape like those of the 50s and 60s.  We see more Will and Grace and Friends than Cosby and Family Ties.  I don't know if that is a reflection of society or if society is a reflection of the media's embrace of such situations.  At any rate, its up to the individual to decide whether or not that is a positive move.\n\nIn case you meant social learning in terms of child development and the conflicts which a young person may encounter concerning parental guidance and peer influence.  I've witnessed that be both positive and negative at work in my classroom.  I have seen kids that grew up on the street meet and learn things that will help them be more easily accepted into the world of middle class norms, and sadly I have seen those with everything in the world before them throw it all away by hooking up with drugs and alcohol, etc.\n\nIn short, social learning is important.  So is good decision making and that is what we should encourage, by consistently implementing consequences, both positive and negative.
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I love to watch them on tv. I love a thunderstorm near my house. Never been in a tornado or hurricane but they look really scary on tv. I think I would be very scared if I had to go thru a tornado of hurricane. We had a tropical storm one time with winds up to 70 mph. It was awful and lasted all night. I was so worried about the trees crashing on my house. They didn't but the ones in the far back fell. The house shook.
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To sum it up, a cyclone is cloud/storm system that spins, and a hurricane is a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean. Also, Cyclone is the name for Hurricane type storms that hit Australia. Confusing, I know.
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How about doing a search on Hurricane Katrina.  the issues there were huge\n\ngood luck
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Hurricanes, tornadoes, eathquakes, cyclones....stuff like that.
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Are you looking for tropical cyclone prediction? This might be helpful:\n\nhttp://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
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Working atmosphere, economic level (downturned), natural disasters, ...
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I survived Rita, the hurricane that LEVELED lower Southwest Louisiana, which has a high population of elderly people. I get so sick of hearing about Katrina. All of the hurricanes were bad. Anyway, The Red Cross was helpful, however, the church groups and groups of students using their spring breaks in the clean up effort here has been so awesome. I don't know what happened to the Red Cross. But I have faith in humanity again!!!
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Well, first off it's probably in the tropics...  ;)\n\nI cut and pasted this part (sorry, feeling lazy):\n\n"In meteorology, a tropical cyclone is a storm system with a closed circulation around a center of low pressure, fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and condenses. The name underscores their origin in the tropics and their cyclonic nature. They are distinguished from other cyclonic storms such as nor'easters and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems.\n\nDepending on their strength and location, a tropical cyclone can be called a tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane, or typhoon, among other names.\n\nTropical cyclones can produce extremely high winds, tornadoes, torrential rain (leading to mudslides and flash floods), and drive storm surge onto coastal areas. Though the effects on populations and ships can be catastrophic, tropical cyclones have been known to relieve drought conditions. They carry heat away from the tropics, an important mechanism of the global atmospheric circulation that maintains equilibrium in the environment." (wikipedia - see below)
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Global warming has led to an increase in average strength of tropical storms and hurricanes, so I'd say the consequences are quite serious.
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depend how bad the hurricane winds are.The higher the catagory the worst the damage to the homes.\nWe fled Hurricane Rita,it took us 28 hours to travel only 40 miles !\nWe had a family member that was pregnant and was due in three weeks when we evacuated.She had her baby the day we got home.We were gone only two days.My uncle passed away when was taken out by private ambulance out of the city.\n\nHurricanes really do effect everyone somehow if you are in it's path of destruction.\nThe electricity goes out,therefore no gas stations are open.People are stranded on the freeways with small children and babies,elderly people getting sick because of the heat and fumes from all the cars  etc...\nEveryone that has gone thru a hurricane has a story to tell..that is my very brief one.\nI bet the people from New Orleans can beat that story.
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Too much...  Flooding, traffic accidents.\nToo little...  Drought, water rationing.
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nothing good, radioactive rain spread over millions of acres of land and water. waste of time and energy.\n\na class 3 hurricane has the force of 10 hiroshima bombs going off every second, one more would not matter in the disruption of the wind and rain field. \n\nbut just as an experiment it is a bad idea. in the 1960's they tried cloud seeding in the edge of hurricanes, it made them stronger and rain more.
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The formation of tropical cyclones (hurricanes) is the topic of extensive ongoing research, and is still not fully understood, however, there is a reasonably good article here to read up on current theories...\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane
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Read: http://www.answers.com/topic/hurricane?gwp=19
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its a giant storm  like a hurricane thats been going on for a logn time bout size of earth i think