Final Post

http://www.jcie.or.jp/civilnet/tohoku/110719_ngo_delegation.html

This article is about how the JCIE helped with the recovery efforts in Japan after the devestation that happened in March of 2011. This organization was working to create a more effective disaster response. Japan was not prepared for this devestation at all, which is why it needs to be changed in the future. The Japanese have been working with US organizations to see how their disaster responses differ and are more effective. They have also been trying to collaborate between US and internation funding organizations to work on the affected areas of Japan. The US discussed with the delegation to talk about Hurricane Katrina and what they did to help recover. ---- It is nice to know that the US and Japan are working together on how to resolve the problems with responding to disasters. It is helpful to use other previous natural disasters to learn from our mistakes. Especially in this article it makes it seem like natural disasters will cause less trauma in the future. If we know how to prepare and react to these disasters maybe a lot of damage can be prevented. Working together to do this will have a positive affect and should be done more often.

My topic that I covered over this class was recent natural disasters and how past natural disasters are recovering today. I actually learned a lot about past natural disasters and how they are doing today. I found out that there are still problems from past disasters that are still affecting how we live today. In most cases with hurricanes/tsunamis there is usually flooding, which results in a problem in the fish industry. This not only affects the fish and their environment but it affects how we live as a society today. I did post multiple blogs about the Japan earthquake/tsunami so I learned a lot about that. One of the things I learned is that it was one of the most expensive damage costs out of any earthquake in the past, but yet it was recovering quicker than a lot of earthquakes had. Another thing I learned that was very interesting was about the Joplin Tornado in Missouri. I was unaware of how much damage it had caused, but once I got reading about it I found out much more. Joplin worked together to fix their problems and had to restart a whole new community. Everyone that survived and was capable of helping did. It was relieving to hear that people were willing to restart their whole lives so quickly. There was a lot more information that I learned but I found those three things the most interesting. I'm glad that I could learn more about natural disasters, I feel much more informed then I did before.