Emergency evacuation orders: Considerations and lessons from Hurricane Sandy

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick D. O’Neil, PhD, Capt. USN (ret)
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Emergency Evacuation ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
The State ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
Emergency Shelter ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Emergency Actions ◽  
The City

This article analyzes the problems surrounding the execution of emergency evacuation orders by evaluating Hurricane Sandy and the emergency actions taken by the State of New Jersey and the City of Atlantic City New Jersey. The analysis provides an overview of the legal authority granting emergency powers to governors and mayors to issue evacuation proclamations in addition to an evaluation of the New Jersey’s emergency evacuation mandate and subsequent compliance. The article concludes with provision of planning and preparedness recommendations for public managers facing similar hazards, including a recommendation for provision of emergency shelter contingencies within the threat zone in anticipation of citizen noncompliance evacuation orders.

Hurricane Sandy’s impact on the predisaster homeless and homeless shelter services in New Jersey

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc R. Settembrino, PhD
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Homeless Shelters ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Homeless Shelter ◽  
Emergency Assistance ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Shelter Services

Presently, there is little research on how people experiencing homelessness prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Existing emergency management literature does not provide an understanding of how disasters affect homeless shelter services. The present study seeks to fill these gaps by examining how Hurricane Sandy impacted homeless shelters and their guests in New Jersey. Presenting findings from ethnographic research in Atlantic City and Hoboken, this study identifies several areas in which homeless shelters and their guests may be able to assist in emergency response and disaster recovery such as preparing meals for victims, sorting and processing donated items, and assisting victims in filing for emergency assistance.

scholarly journals 1719 William Trent House Museum—The Significance of New Jersey’s Colonial History

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Samantha Luft
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Curriculum Standards ◽  
Delaware River ◽  
House Museum ◽  
Historic Landmark ◽  
State Capital ◽  
The City

<p><em>Have your students ever asked who the state capital of Trenton is named for? That man, William Trent, built his country estate north of Philadelphia, in New Jersey, at the Falls of the Delaware River about 1719. It was a large, imposing brick structure, built in the newest fashion of the day. Nearby, there were numerous outbuildings as well as grist, saw, and fulling mills along the Assunpink Creek. In 1720 Trent laid out a settlement, which he incorporated and named “Trenton.” After changing hands numerous times, the Trent House opened as a museum in 1939. Today it is owned by the City of Trenton and operated by the Trent House Association. The William Trent House is a designated National Historic Landmark and is listed in both the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Bring your classes to learn about colonial life, and challenge them to compare it to life as they know it today. This article includes references to the relevant New Jersey Curriculum Standards.</em></p>

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF A STORM EROSION CLIMATOLOGY FOR THE NEW JERSEY COAST, US

2018 ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Laura Lemke ◽  
Jon K. Miller
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Return Period ◽  
Coastal Erosion ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
The State ◽  
Northern Half ◽  
Erosion Index ◽  
Storm Duration ◽  
Southern Half

In this study, the Storm Erosion Index (SEI), developed by Miller and Livermont (2008), is used to reevaluate storms that have impacted New Jersey over the past several decades based on their erosion potential. This index considers all three drivers of coastal erosion including wave height, water level, and storm duration and has been shown to more closely correlated to observed erosion than more traditional indices (Miller and Livermont 2008). Here, storms are assessed at thirteen shoreline segments defined along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey. When reevaluated with SEI, the top three storms across all shoreline segments are the December 1992 nor’easter, the Veteran’s Day Storm in November 2009, and Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. In general, the December 1992 nor’easter and Hurricane Sandy are more highly ranked in the northern half of the state with Hurricane Sandy having a maximum return period of 38 years. The Veteran’s Day Storm on the other hand is more highly ranked in the southern half of the state having a maximum return period of 42 years. A closer look at these three storms illustrates the importance of each of the three drivers of coastal erosion in determining erosion potential. A particular emphasis is placed on storm duration which explains why the Veteran’s Day Storm (td = ~90 hours) outranks Hurricane Sandy (td = ~60 hours) in the southern portion of the state. The assessment performed in this study produces a record of historical storms ranked by SEI that future storms can be compared to. This allows for an understanding of the erosion potential of future storms in the context of what has occurred previously.

MOSQUITO CONTROL IN EASTERN UNITED STATES

1931 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 147-148
Author(s):  
Arthur Gibson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Mosquito Control ◽  
The State ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
18Th Annual Meeting

For several years, I have had the pleasure of attending the annual meetings of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association. These meetings are held at Atlantic City, usually about the middle of February. This year the 18th annual meeting was held on February 18, 19 and 20. One would think from the name of the organization that problems discussed at these annual meetings are concerned with mosquito control within the state of New Jersey.

New Jersey: A Reference Guide & Course Syllabus

1982 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 10-11
Author(s):  
Richard Lehne
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Delaware River ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Political Traditions

New Jersey is a fascinating state, and New Jersey politics is a fascinating business. The state is Newark, Camden, Jersey City, and aging urban areas typical of the northeast. New Jersey is also the Pinelands preserve, a fragile environmental area the size of Rhode Island protected by the state from indiscriminate development. New Jersey is the expansive beaches of the Jersey shore, the rugged beauty of the Delaware River Water Gap, and comfortable patrician estates whose owners continue to devote weekends to fox-hunting. New Jersey is valuable farmlands which still make New Jersey the Garden State, and it is the Hackensack Meadowlands, the Sports Complex and Atlantic City as well. New Jersey is a diverse state, and its political life reflects both that diversity as well as the state's changing political traditions and developing political institutions.

The Arts and National Renewal: the Ninth International Gathering of Group Theatre in Ayacucho, Peru

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Ian Watson
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
State University ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Group Theatre ◽  
The City ◽  
Cultural Regeneration

Ian Watson's article looks at two separate but interrelated subjects – the role of the arts in remedying urban dereliction, now a global phenomenon; and the development of one specific arts gathering in healing the larger wounds of Peruvian society after years of civil warfare and economic chaos. It was from the Peruvian city of Ayacucho, in the late sixteenth century, that the first noteworthy revolt against the Spanish Conquistadors was launched, by the legendary Inca leader Túpac Amaru. It was to this city that Mario Delgado, founder of the Lima-based group Cuatrotablas, invited the Third Theatre gathering, just two years after its inauguration from Eugenio Barba's initiative in 1976. The use of the city as a base for the most prominent of the guerrilla groups made a decennial return of the Third Theatre gathering impossible – and the reasons for holding the 1998 gathering in Ayacucho all the stronger, not least because of the choice of the city by the state-funded agency PromPeru as a focus for national cultural regeneration. Ian Watson, an Advisory Editor and regular contributor to NTQ who teaches at the Rutgers campus of the State University of New Jersey, knits together the threads of the story.

scholarly journals Registered nurses: can our supply meet the demand during a disaster?

BMC Nursing ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Li ◽  
Jason M. Hockenberry ◽  
Jiaoan Chen ◽  
Jeannie P. Cimiotti
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
The State ◽  
Full Time ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
American Hospital Association ◽  
Demand And Supply

Abstract Background Death and destructions are often reported during natural disasters; yet little is known about how hospitals operate during disasters and if there are sufficient resources available for hospitals to provide ongoing care during these catastrophic events. The purpose of this study was to determine if the State of New Jersey had a supply of registered nurses (RNs) that was sufficient to meet the needs of hospitalized patients during a natural disaster – Hurricane Sandy. Methods Secondary data were used to forecast the demand and supply of New Jersey RNs during Hurricane Sandy. Data sources from November 2011 and 2012 included the State Inpatient Databases (SID), American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey on hospital characteristics and staffing data from New Jersey Department of Health. Three models were used to estimate the RN shortage for each hospital, which was the difference between the demand and supply of RN full-time equivalents. Results Data were available on 66 New Jersey hospitals, more than half of which experienced a shortage of RNs during Hurricane Sandy. For hospitals with a RN shortage in ICUs, a 20% increase in observed RN supply was needed to meet the demand; and a 10% increase in observed RN supply was necessary to meet the demand for hospitals with a RN shortage in non-ICUs. Conclusion Findings from this study suggest that many hospitals in New Jersey had a shortage of RNs during Hurricane Sandy. Efforts are needed to improve the availability of nurse resources during a natural disaster.

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

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