Hurricane Andrew

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This paper discusses Hurricane Andrew which hit Miami-Dade County in 1992. The paper specifically discusses how emergency management dealt with problems during the hurricane. The paper describes a chronology of events surrounding the hurricane and then looks at how emergency management could have improved the way that they dealt with the disaster.

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"The devastation and the problems that were caused by Hurricane Andrew did not just involve people, however. The ecosystem was also badly damaged. Florida has many coral reefs, and a percentage of them were badly damaged or destroyed when the storm came through (Peacock, 1997). Millions of fish were killed as well, and this hurt both the ecosystem and the economy, as fishermen were suddenly out of business and stores could not stock the fish that people had been accustomed to buying (Peacock, 1997). The damage to the Homestead Air Force Base was also excessive, and it no longer operates as a full-time base. Instead, it houses only reserve troops now, since much of it was never rebuilt (Peacock, 1997)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Gibson, K.B. (2005). The fury of hurricane Andrew, 1992. New York: Mitchell Lane Publishers.
• Peacock, W. (1997). Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, gender, and the sociology of disasters. New York: Routledge.
• Provenzo, E.F. & Provenzo, A. B. (2002). In the eye of hurricane Andrew. Florida: University Press of Florida.
• Robinson, A.G. (2002). Earthshock: Hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other forces of nature, revised edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

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