Week 4 - Hazard Mapping_11
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Dec 6, 2023
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Hello Class and Dr. Vives,
I live in the central region of Texas, in the city of Killeen. Here in central Texas, we suffer from
intense thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are short term weather events that have lightning, thunder,
heavy cloud cover, hail and or rain, extreme wind and in worst case situation tornadoes. This weather
even is predictable but can escalate very quickly, all aspects of the storm can be deadly in their own
way. Lightning can cause electrical surges over a greater distance than the storm damaging electronic
equipment as well as property damage. Hail the size of soft balls can cause damage to property as
well as knocking out infrastructure such as the power grid and telecommunications servers. Large
amounts of rain fall can lead to flash flooding that can cause personal and property damage.
Thunderstorms can generate sustained winds over 55 MPH that can take out a city infrastructure and
damage property. Then the worst can happen then one or more tornadoes are spawned from a
thunderstorm. The Enhanced Fujita (EF) rates an EF 0 tornado as having a wind range of 65-85 MPH
to the monster EF 5 tornado with winds moving at over 200 MPH, the level of damage and loss of life
could reach an appalling level. It is not unheard-of whole towns in the mid-west being leveled to the
ground. On April 12
th
of 2022 central Texas experienced a powerful thunderstorm that generated
large hail, heavy winds as well as an EF 3 tornado that knocked out power and water and dropped
5.5-inch hail stones, injuring 23 people and caused millions of dollars in property and infrastructure
damage.
In my map I marked Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) in the area Police, Fire
and medical serves. I also marked orange lines to mild storm damage with red lines showing heavy
storm damage from the April 12
th
weather event. I found Google MyMaps to be helpful, but I will
need to work with it more to become proficient in its use. I can see it being very useful in this class as
well as future classes I will taking, not to mention a career working in any level of emergency
response preparedness.
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