Storm Management

By Chloe,Blessed, and Sakeasi

Hard Engineering

Hard engineering is often used for defence against storms but it isn’t effective. It is often short-term and and tends to be very expensive. They also may have a high impact on the landscape or environment and is unsustainable. Types of hard engineering methods include: building a sea wall, building groynes and rock armour or boulder barriers.

Preparation Methods

Here is a list of things you should do to prepare for a hurricane.

1. Check your insurance coverage to make sure that it reflects the current state of your home.

2. Do a home inventory so that you can save time. Document the contents of your home.

3. Government can educate people to survive through the hurricane or tropical storm

4. protect your property by installing:

Hurricane shutters head and foot bolts

hurricane straps or clips to help hold the roof up

a safe room that can withstand high winds and flying debris.

Hurricane: Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the US. On estimate around 1,833 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed in August 2005. Millions of other people were left homeless in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. It cost the US $108 billion in damages according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The people of New Orleans made levees but they were destroyed in the storm surges. The hurricane surprised a lot of people in Florida because Katrina went from tropical storm to hurricane in less than a day. On the Gulf Coast people were evacuated as it was declared a state of emergency.