Topic #1 You are the director of emergency services in a community located on the Gulf Coast in Southern Mississippi. During the hurricane season, this community often faces the threat of hurricanes....

Topic #1
You are the director of emergency services in a community located on the Gulf Coast in Southern Mississippi. During the hu
icane season, this community often faces the threat of hu
icanes. What are some of the risk mitigation factors that you could put into place that can help to reduce and or eliminate the impacts of the hu
icane? Provide examples to support your position.
Topic 2: Cu
ent Issues
Please review the newspaper, watch the news, or search the internet for a cu
ent issue or incident that relates to the material in the first three units. Describe the issue or incident to your classmates, including the link to the course content in your primary source. Please be sure to cite your sources.
NB: For Topic 2, you can either discuss earthquake or wildfire
Below is one of my classmates’ work that you can look at just to give you an idea.
Hello professor and class,
            I was born and raised in southern California, so wildfires and earthquakes were all too familiar. Then, I moved to Kansas and got to experience what it was like to shelter in a basement as a tornado came ba
eling through our town. Now, I live in Hawaii and for the first time I got to experience a Hu
icane warning. Hu
icane Douglas made its way through the Hawaiian islands nearly nearly 3 weeks ago on Sunday July 26th. Its original trajectory was a direct hit to the island of Oahu. Luckily, we were spared but, "according to the Central Pacific Hu
icane Canter, no hu
icane has ever taken a path closer to Oahu than Douglas" (HNN Staff, 2020, para. 1).
             What I noticed as I was going through my first ever hu
icane warning was how organized and prepared the state was. There was an ongoing campaign on the local news stations as to what a household needed to do to be prepared if a hu
icane hit. There were stories how to board up your windows, what to take down in your yard, how to build up a sand bad wall in sea surge areas. There was even a radio campaign that urged residents to always have a 14-day supply of food, water, and emergency supplies on hand at all times throughout hu
icane season.
            Oahu has several military bases on its island. All military helicopters and planes left the island. All military ships left port. Even commercial airlines like and Hawaiian Airlines and commercial ships such as cargos and container ships also left the island.  The grocery stores were filled with people gathering their supplies. Countless emails and texts from emergency management came through to update us on the status on the hu
icane.
            Oahu had its emergency plan down to a science. It was reassuring as a resident to see how seriously the state takes hu
icanes. It makes sense a hu
icane would be of the upmost importance as the Hawaiian islands face situation far different than the mainland, they have nowhere to evacuate to.
            On the day of the hu
icane it was eerily quiet. The beaches were empty, nobody was out aside from some surfer cashing in on the big surf the hu
icane
ought in.  The island was basically shut down. To me this was a good sign of the education the state has done to inform the citizens the risks of hu
icanes. All in all we were lucky that we were spared.  
 
Sarah Maggenti
 
References:
HNN Staff. (2020, July 28). On its track just north of Hawaii, Hu
icane Douglas made history. Retrieved from https:
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/07/27/its-track-just-north-hawaii-hu
icane-douglas-made-history
 
Article link:
https:
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/07/27/its-track-just-north-hawaii-hu
icane-douglas-made-history/