It was the most terrifying moment of my life, a storm that I will never forget. It came to us as a surprise, in the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep. It was powerful and deadly for many. It changed my life completely when It left me and family with a destroyed home for months. Of course nobody knew what was going to […]

An emergency plan refers to a set plan of action put in place to combat major urgent issues which are always uncertain but very disastrous. Some of the emergencies include flooding, fire-outbreaks, terrorist attacks, and explosions among other hazardous conditions. Emergency planning is very significant as it not only help in providing guidance during an emergency, but it is also an imperative tool for quick […]

Facebook: Social Network or Social Disaster Your busy day is done. You head home open up your laptop or head over to your desktop and turn it on. After impatiently waiting for everything to load on your computer you open up your web browser. You go to the top of the page and type in www. face and arrow down in the drop box to […]

In September, record flooding forced more than 10,000 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, residents  their homes and businesses. The Cedar River water levels exceeded 22 feet — a full six feet above major flood stage — deluging fields and properties in the area. It comes on the heels of a fatal Louisiana flood that affected 60,000 homes and took the lives of 13 people. Spanning thousands of acres, the flooding was […]

Gulin Langbroek 11. 1 THE MAN-MADE DISASTER: CHERNOBYL “It is one of histories ironies that the worst nuclear accident began as a test to improve safety. ”, states Snell (1988). The Soviets wanted to find out how the Chernobyl power plant would cope with a sudden power loss, therefore the experiment tested how long a spinning turbine could provide electric power to certain systems in […]

Union Carbide Disaster: Bhopal, India On December 3, 1984 just three miles from the City of Bhopal.. An American owned Union Carbide Pesticide Plant leaked Toxic gas in to the air killing over Hundreds of people right away. Mr. Y P Gokhale, managing director of Union Carbide in India said, “That a Methyl isocyanate gas (MIC) had escaped when a valve in the plant’s underground […]

RISK CASE STUDY – ASSIGNEMENT 2 August 3, 20111 THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER Risk Management Plan 1. Risk management plan summarizes risk management approach, list methodologies and processes, defines everyone’s role – definition of risk management plan. NASA was using for the most part qualitative risk assessment process. Launch of the shuttle was allowed as long as aggregate risk remained acceptable. Quantitive method was […]

Youth is the future wealth of a country. ? of a country’s Population is youth. Youth constitute age group of 15 -35. Youth Is endowed with bright eyes filled with dreams of a great future, a powerful strong able bodies, minds with bubbling joy – this is the state of youth. They possess the energy and power not only to destroy burning spheres of fire […]

These geological disasters — landslides, earthquakes, floods, tsunami, blizzards, volcanic eruptions, etc. can cause a lot of losses; property losses, financial losses, or even a loss of a family. We usually get a glimpse of these kinds of disasters in a super slow motion movie (very dramatic). But along with these movies or in any theatrical plays, we somehow get amazed by the visual effects, […]