Weather can be devastating in many ways, it can affect humans due to weather in terms of temperature, but can also lead to more extreme cases like hurricanes and tornadoes. On the lower end of the “destructive scale”, weather events like rain, fog, heat, and wind, can affect our everyday lives, but not cause severe damage. However, on the other end of the scale, weather events like hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards can cause damage on a much larger magnitude. They have the capability to destroy infrastructure and cause fatalities, but due to new mitigation techniques, humans have been able to decrease the destructive capabilities of these severe weather events.
The aftermath of a weather event can vary in destruction depending on the magnitude of the event. Common weather events like rain, wind, fog, and temperature can cause little damage, but on rare occasions can be dangerous and can cause destruction. Rain has the possibility to cause floods, while the temperature can cause severe weather conditions like extreme heat or cold. However, these daily weather events can lead to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, etc. These events cause exceedingly more damage than a common weather event. The devastation of the weather also depends on the location of the event. If it occurs in an underdeveloped area or an area with a substantially larger population, the event will cause more devastation than compared to a more developed area, with up-to-date, effective mitigation techniques. However, weather can still be devastating in a number of other ways. It can cause a variety of events from drought, to thunderstorms, to tornadoes, and cause very minimal damage, or can cause immense damage. It all depends on what weather event occurred, and also the location of the event.
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Although the weather has the potential to cause severe damage to a city, there are many mitigation techniques. There are different techniques for every weather storm. For example to mitigate against tornadoes countries mainly depend on early warning and evacuation protocols in order to minimize fatalities. Another way to mitigate weather events is to prevent them from ever happening. For example to prevent floods cities clear up drains and create flood plains to prevent the river from overflowing into the city. The most common mitigation technique for most cities is early warning. It gives time for civilians to prepare as well as give time for civilians to evacuate on occasion. For daily weather events occurrences like snow and rain, there is little to no potential danger so there is no need for mitigation. However, there is always the occasional ice or snow day in order to prevent chances of accidents as well as severe heat policies that do not allow outdoor activities due to weather.
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