Hurricane Case Study

The Understanding of Hurricanes The world is constantly bombarded with challenges and threats. As if life was not enough, these disasters come in many shapes and sizes and can greatly vary on the seriousness of them. The one major disaster that has been gaining more popularity and dealing more damage is that no other than the Hurricane. Hurricanes have been getting more and more powerful as time goes on and in order to survive them, we need to have a better understanding of their origin, how they affect your geographical region and the aftermath of a Hurricane.

How a Hurricane forms Hurricanes are a pretty common natural phenomena and their season is typically around mid-August to late October according to National Geographic (2015). Hurricanes

The amount of problems that can arise because of a Hurricane is staggering to say the least. Now the basic problems that can arise are that the City loses power and because of the streets being flooding they lose transportation capabilities. These are two key critical infrastructures that are now disabled and can cause massive problems to the inhabitants. These problems can insist disease to spread and possibly even starvation, now of course this is if you are out of power for a significant amount of time. The fallout can affect millions of people and has to be reacted to in a timely manner. The degree of fallout depends on the type of Hurricane that hits the affected area, because the fallout was much different from Katrina to Sandy. The obvious difference was how Katrina was more powerful the Sandy however, the reaction once the Hurricanes ended was much different. FEMA was underprepared for Katrina and they lost a lot of lives due to a failure to act. However Sandy was a much different scenario because FEMA realized its mistakes and made sure that they didn’t repeat them again by firing the Director of FEMA after Katrina (McGraw-Hill, 2015). Therefor their reaction was faster and much more efficient saving lives and making the relief process much easier for the people

You can very easily get PTSD from such an event such as Hurricane Katrina. After the Hurricane many of the survivors were inspected and they found a multitude of different mental disorders among them according to Pauline W. Chen M.D (2012). Now Mrs. Chen also states that many people will shrug off the shell shock effect of what they witnessed and then these problems eventually turn into anxiety and depression being the leading two (Chen M.D, 2012). These problems go unaddressed and are very often forgotten about however they do happen and therefore need to have some type of aid set up. The fallout of a Hurricane is much more than just physical