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DMAN TEST 1 {216 QUIZZES} QUESTIONSAND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Where did EM start for the whole world? - ANSWER 1. Moses- 1st flood
plain management when he split the Red Seas 2. 1st emergency management
preparation due to a warning
Define Emergency management - ANSWER 1. It is the discipline dealing with
risk and risk avoidance 2. have to be practised and be a part of daily life
Why is EM so difficult - ANSWER 1. Ignore warning signs 2. Bad politics 3.
Ever-evolving
1803 Fire in New Hampshire Fire in Portsmouth - ANSWER 1. A
congressional act was passed that provided financial assistance to the city that
was devasted by a fire 2. The first example of the federal government becoming
involved in a local disaster 3. 110 homes destroyed, 10 million dollars today to
fix, gave poor people the money and left rich people to fix the issues themselves
1930 Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Bureau of Public Roads -
ANSWER 1. Both were given authority by Teddy Roosevelt to make disaster
loans available for repair and reconstruction of certain public facilities after
disasters 2. The problem was they gave too much money
1930s Tennessee Valley Authority - ANSWER 1. was created in 1930s to
produce hydroelectric power and reduce flooding in this region by building a
wooden dam
Flood Control Act of 1930s - ANSWER 1. gave US Army corps of Engineers
increased authority to design and build flood-control projects 2. this brought the
idea that humans could control nature and eliminated flood risk 3. program was
costly and shortsided
,1950s Cold War - ANSWER 1. Civil defense programs popped up all around
the country 2. communities and individuals were encouraged to build bomb
shelters 2. almost every community had a civil defense director
Civil defense directors - ANSWER 1. usually retired military personal and
they received little financial or political support 2.
Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) - ANSWER 1. federal agency
with little resources whose main role was to provide technical assistance ti state
and local civil defense directors 3. the local and state defense directors were the
1st recognized face of EM in US
Office of Defense Mobilization - ANSWER 1. quick mobilization of materials
and production and stockpiling of critical materials in the event of war included
emergency preparedness
Placebo effect - ANSWER 1. give people within the community stuff to do so
that they are appeased and feel usfull 2. what you do with the walking wounded
Federal civil defense administration and office of defense mobilization were
combined under what organization in 1958 - ANSWER 1. office of civil and
defense mobilization
1959 - Hegben lake earthquake - ANSWER 1. measured 7.3 on Richter scale
2. proved states other than California were at risk for severe earthquakes 3.
caused a mudslide that brought 33 million cubic meters of rocks into the lake
and created a 150ft lake 4. Montana
1960 Hurricane Donna - ANSWER 1. hit west coast of florida and lasted 9
days as a major hurricane
1961 Hurricane Carla - ANSWER 1. hit Florida and spanned 250 miles from
Florida to Texas 2. Kennedy administration decided to change the federal
approach to disasters --> created office of emergency preparedness inside white
house
1961 Kennedy created - ANSWER 1. created office of Emergency
Preparedness inside the White House to deal with natural disasters
, 1962 Ash Wednesday - ANSWER 1. devastated more than 620 miles of
shoreline on the east coast 2. produced $300 million worth of damage 3. had 20-
40 foot waves and 76 mph winds
Prince William Sound Earthquake 1964 - ANSWER 1. 9.2 on Richter scale hit
prince William Sound in Alaska 2. generated a tsunami that affected beaches
down the pacific coast of California and killed 123 people
Hurricane Betsy 1965 - ANSWER 1. 1st storm that cost billion dollars at the
time (10.6 billion dollars now in our time) 2. the financial loseses from Betsy in
florida and louisanna caused Levi system to built in NOLA and led to the
National Insurance act of 1968 1.
National Flood Insurance Program NFIP - ANSWER 1. The National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP) is a program created by the Congress of the United
States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-448).
The program enables property owners in participating communities to purchase
insurance protection from the government against losses from flooding. This
insurance is designed to provide an insurance alternative to disaster assistance
to meet the escalating costs of repairing damage to buildings and their contents
caused by floods
NFIP brought the concept of - ANSWER 1. community-based mitigation 2. do
something about the risk before the disaster stick 3. when a community joined
NFIP in exchange for federal subsidized low-cost flood insurance for its
citizens, the community had to pass an ordinance restricting future development
in floodplains 4. federal gov. helped local communities by producing maps of
their community's floodplains
Hurricane Camille 1969 - ANSWER 1. it was so large it broke our
instrumentation and was off the scale
1970s responsibility for EM functions was evident in more than fice federal
departments ... - ANSWER 1. department of commerce 2. general services
administration, the treasury department, nuclear regulatory commission, HUD
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