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Year 10 2008: Geography: Storms
1)Explain the geographical processes involved in the hazard:
Storms can be defined as many types of storms:
- Thunderstorms
- Perfect Storms (when two storms combine)
- Tornado's
- Tropical Cyclones (Hurricanes)
- Extratropical Cyclone
- Winter storm
- Blizzard / Ice Storm.
The usual definition of a storm in Sydney would be a thunderstorm while storms in the wet season in Northern Australia would be defined as a Tropical Storm / Cyclone because of the monsoonal troughs coming south in our summer.
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2)Discuss the following impacts of the natural hazard:
a)Economic: With the renowned physical damage that is caused by storms the physical damage also has a strong impact on the economy. Through severe storms many homes and buildings are damaged. This results in a large economic impact.
b)Environmental:
c)Social:
3)Analyse the responsibility and responses of individuals, groups and various levels of government to the impact of the natural hazard:
Goverment groups such as the State Emergency Service (SES) have the responsability of responding to the impacts of storms. They help out by helping to prepare for severe storms and helping people who have been severley affected, they do this by supplying food, some forms of shelter and deliver the basic necessities of daily life, like sanitation, power and clean water.
The NSW SES has over 10,000 volunteers who work in 228 locations, they all recieve a few months of basic training so that they can help rescue people in immediately dangerous situations caused by severe storms, such as floods, collapsing buildings, car crashes or people caught in powerful currents.