GEOG 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Health, Blue-Collar Worker
29 Dec 2017
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Late, merged with another weather system (caused snow) Those with white collar jobs could afford to take off work while those with blue collar jobs. Would need to stay and take care of their community. People didn"t know how to get out or where to go. Catastrophic damage since it hit a city that was unprepared. Increased inequality and pre existing mortality makes the society already vulnerable to the event and difficult to rebuild. You know exactly who will be suffering. Won"t come back if there are no schools or anywhere to live. Exposes the cracks in social fabric of the usa. Inability to know where the hurricane will hit land (time) Difficult to evac nursing homes and hospitals. Fema is difficult to apply to and people get lost. / how to convince people they need to do stuff. This will create needy populations and the downwards spiral of a. Who will return from an evacuation neighborhood.
