week 1 geo 9

Nicaragua’s has many types of hazards that impact the country heavily. Most of the dangerous hazards happen near or on the coast which is neighbors with the ring of fire. In addition to the location of Nicaragua impacting all of these hazards climate change has increased many of those hazards becoming uncontrollable for the people to deal with. Most commonly the rainfall is what impacts Nicaragua’s coast. Recently Nicaragua’s coast was hit with a “category 2 storm on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale when it hit in October 2016” called Hurricane Otto ( reliefweb.int ) all of the rain from this storm created many floods in various locations of the coast. All of this rainfall and flooding damaged many peoples homes and many had to evacuate and leave all of their belongings behind. On a positive note out of “10,143 people and the 69 coastal communities” (relief web.int ) no person was found dead no person went missing and there were no injuries. Nicaragu...

Week 10 Extreme Weather/ Country of our Choice. On this weeks post I decided to choose Bolivia as part of the Extreme Weather conditions. Many places around the world have extremely dangerous weather conditions but in some circumstances I think not on how big or long a natural disaster happened for but the impact that it did and the people that it affected. Bolivia has a little bit of everything when it comes to natural disasters. Bolivia ranges from droughts, floods, and landslides. Since most of the people are low income when a natural disaster happens they struggle to get back on their feet. some of the more intense weather conditions is in the wettest part of the country they can receive up to 40 - 150 inches of rain in the months of September through May depending on the location (Bolivian Life). Bolivia can receive that much rainfall because of the strong winds that blow from the Amazon. In addition to all the rainfall their temperatures range from about 60 -80 degrees in the...