Creating Safety, Courting Disaster on the Lower Shinano River, Japan
Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 26
storms
Die Hamburger Sturmflut von 1962: Risikobewusstsein und Katastrophenschutz aus zeit-, technik- und umweltgeschichtlicher Perspektive
Die Hamburger Sturmflut von 1962 is an in-depth historical study of the 1962 storm flood that devastated Hamburg and Germany. It compares the flood to others in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while reflecting on the sociocultural and technological contexts of the time.
Contextualizing Disaster
Contextualizing Disaster presents “highly visible” disasters as well as “slow and hidden” disasters, and how different parties involved in recovery processes contextualize them.
The "Columbus Day Storm" of 1962
Typhoon Freda drifts into an extremely powerful storm formation zone in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and British Columbia, creating horrendous winds and ripping up the landscape.
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The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
The 1928 hurricane that hit Okeechobee was one of the most severe hurricanes in US history. It caused more than 4,000 fatalities as well as widespread damage in the Florida area.
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1996 Oakfield F5 Tornado
Oakfield Wisconsin survives a direct strike from an F5 tornado on July 18th, 1996 without a single fatality. Although property damage is extensive, the outcome could have been far worse.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina strikes the United States Gulf Coast, causing one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in American history.
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The Sewage Sinkhole of Guatemala City
In 2010 a sinkhole in Guatemala City collapsed due to negligent sewer pipe regulations, claiming the lives of 15 people and swallowed a small factory.
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The 1969 Flood and Coastal Erosion on Cape Pitsunda
Arcadia, 2014, no. 13
Take Shelter
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.