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Puerto Rico lies approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Miami and
1,500 miles from Washington, DC. Despite being far outside the
continental United States, the island has played a significant role
in American politics and policy since the United States acquired
Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898. On 20 September 2017, Hurricane
Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm with
sustained wind speeds of over 155 miles per hour. At that time, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was already in recovery mode following
the glancing blow struck by Hurricane Irma on 6 September 2017,
which left 70% of electricity customers without power. Chapter 1
deals with the challenges to recovery in Puerto Rico and the role
of the Financial Oversight and Management Board. Even before the
2017 hurricane season, Puerto Ricos electric power infrastructure
was known to be in poor condition, due largely to underinvestment
and the perceived poor maintenance practices of the Puerto Rico
Electric Power Authority (PREPA).Chapter 2 focuses on the recovery
of Puerto Rico from the hurricanes, and the restoration of power.
The two hurricanes that hit may have been historic, but they
exposed a state of affairs in Puerto Rico that existed well before
any of the hurricanes made landfall. Decades of mismanagement led
to a paralyzing debt burden. Chapter 3 describes the factors that
contributed to Puerto Ricos financial condition and levels of debt
and federal actions that could address these factors. Chapter 4
examines the economic conditions in Puerto Rico as of the end of
2016, and (2) assesses the potential effects of applying the 2016
Overtime Rule to Puerto Rico. Chapter 5 provides policy and
historical background about Puerto Ricos political status --
referring to the relationship between the federal government and a
territorial one. Congress has not altered the islands status since
1952, when it approved a territorial constitution.
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty
thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive
river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the
slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental
disaster to be experienced on a mass scale. As it moved from north
to south down an environmentally and technologically altered
valley, inundating plantations and displacing more than half a
million people, the flood provoked an intense and lasting cultural
response. The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio
broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry,
and fiction to show how this event took on public meanings.
Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover called a
"great relief machine," but deep rifts soon arose. Southerners,
pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the attack of
Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees in
"concentration camps" prompted pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida
B. Wells to warn of the return of slavery to Dixie. And
environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called the flood "the most
colossal blunder in civilized history." Susan Scott Parrish
examines how these and other key figures--from entertainers Will
Rogers, Miller & Lyles, and Bessie Smith to authors Sterling
Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright--shaped public
awareness and collective memory of the event. The crises of this
period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and
financial collapse, but The Flood Year 1927 enables us to assess
how mediated environmental disasters became central to modern
consciousness.
Disasters happen! These are the stories of love and loss, death,
and destruction. Many victims died in disasters. These are the
stories of how survivors live to strike back. Survivors were
trapped, but then set free when they were rescued! Some are
man-made disasters, while others are natural disasters. The
survivors of disasters include child abuse victims, domestic
violence survivors, battered wives, war veterans, orphans, riots
survivors, and victims of the terrorist attacks. These survivors
live to tell the tale after seeing a natural disaster such as
deadly storms.
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