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Natural Disasters

What are the differences between natural disasters based on the place, environment and country that they occur in. We all familiar with some of the natural disasters, and nobody can deny that they are could be more dangerous if the people have a lack of awareness about them. Moreover, some governments alert its people about them before they actually happen, others does not care about educated its people unless they experienced. In fact, either government should try to reduce the reasons of natural disasters or even to ruin them, or protect its citizens by keep them up to date with natural disasters. Because of natural disasters can be followed by damages and cases of death, which is for sure unwanted matter could also destroy building and every things. However, there are many types of natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, volcanoes, oil spills, floods and high temperature. In this essay, I will be focusing on flood, oil pollution and hurricane dirt, and I will compare and contrast these information between the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) and The U.S.

Starting with floods, floods could cause serious injuries for both people and environment. When floods happen in the GCC in Jeddah, before 6 years ago. There were 110 people died because of abundance amount of water. The reasons of flood that happen in Jeddah city is because of both heavy rain and a lack of infrastructures in that city and lack of awareness for people as well. Before that time, they did not educate people about flood or what could happen because of the heavy rain, so as usual people got out in the street to enjoy the rain view, but sadly most of them sink, others injures and the water destroy there houses and building. After that the government over there, teach people the right behavior to do during facing heavy rain, and alert citizens before both rain and flood actual happening. In contrast, In the US, I have experienced flood before 2 months in both Hayward and Mississippi, and the streets were full of water. The good thing is that I received several alerts before its happening in both days, so I was ready before they are happened and I did not go out until the flood gone. Because of the good infrastructures in my opinion the water disappeared within hours, so every thing were safe.

Second, misfortunes always occur because of tornados or high winds, such as accidents or even health problem, especially if it is comes with dust. For example, before 3 years ago in Kuwait I have experienced what and we named it a “black storm”, and it was dangerous because when it’s appear I was in the high way driving my car to home, and the vision was zero within seconds. Because of that storm I made an accidents, and they transfer me to the hospital due to suffocation. Also, a lot of people stopped on the streets because they don’t know what to do or how they should behave. Similarly, in the US, the book that I read called eye of the storm, it talks about the storm happened in Miami. In the book there were a father got to fishing during the high wind, and he didn’t know about the storm. After it hits the city he lost and his boat sink into the water, and he could barley survive.

Oil spill or leak could be also count with natural disasters, because it affects the environment, and hurts people and animals as well. In 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam’s solders burned around 700 oil wells a cross the land and the sea. My father told me about that a lot, and he said that we got a black sky for months and we couldn’t see the sun for weeks because of the smoke. Also the sea life was affected and a lot of animal died. In comparison to that, what happen in the Gulf of Mexico, and how countries and governments spend billions of dollars to get rid of the pollution.

We know now some type of natural disasters and what could happen to us due to flood, oil spill, and storms in both GCC countries and the US. In my opinion, governments should work more and more to prevent disasters by many thing, educate people, work on infrastructures, green the wide line to reduce dust and build dams.