History has shown that people tend to rebuild in disaster-prone areas.

Should governing
bodies prevent this from occurring for the sake of the overall safety of the community? Why
or why not?

People make choices everyday for their own risk management. Some of these choices are
things like to take the highway or the backroads, to eat certain foods or take medications.
If someone lives in an area, they most likely knows the treats of that area. But the
government should not be allowed to tell people where to live. It is the choice they make.
There is no way to know for sure when or if a disaster will occur. Disasters occur all over
the world and nearly every place has a chance of certain disasters. If one area has
hurricanes and they move to another area, that area can have tornados or floods. There is
not anyplace that is safe from terrorism, civil disobedience, or other manmade disasters.

very interesting article was published on just this topic in a public-sector journal in 2014.
Please take a few minutes to read the article and consider this question in the context of
the information presented in the article. You can read the article at the following link:

http://www.governing.com/columns/potomac-chronicle/gov-insurer-of-last-resort.html

With this in mind, what impact does this continued effort to rebuild in disaster prone areas
have upon you and I as taxpayers? Should this play a role in the decision by government to
allow the rebuilding in such areas?

After reading this article, I feel like I should recant some of my prior post. I think that the
government should not tell anyone if they can live somewhere or not. I think it is important
that an area is not overly populated. When it comes to landslides, often is it because we
have cut down tree and cleared the area, resulting in erosion and landlines. Land
management is important and understanding it is important as well. If someone want to
move to a known area with disasters, then they are taking the risk to deal with those
disasters. While, in this article, it states that many places knew there was a chance that
could cause a disaster, that should be told and available to all the residents that live there.
The other thing is that the infrastructure was in poor condition before Hurricane Katrina,
that is something that should be taken care of by the government. We pay taxes on gas,
vehicles, and other taxes that should go towards fixing the infrastructure.

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 Select a hazard in your community and briefly describe how you would plan to minimize the
risk associated with that hazard.

The most prevalent hazard my area faces is severe thunderstorms that produce a tornado,
have winds of at least 58 mph and/or hail at least 1" in diameter. Severe thunderstorms
produce dangerous lightning, damaging winds, hail, and heavy rains that may result in
flooding and could produce tornadoes (Madison County EMA, 2017).

To minimize the risks, the area needs to be alerted for possible threats beforehand. In
many times the local schools and some business will close early as a result. It is important
to plan to help local communities plan for power outages, and water supplies, in addition to
find shelter. It is important to help families plan for food and water if something should
happen. To reduce the threat, people need to know and need to seek shelter.

Madison County EMA. (2017). Hazards. Retrieved

at http://www.madisoncountyema.com/hazards.htm.

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