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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Floods in Eastern Cape, South Africa
   As of October 21st there have been a total of eight people found dead with the eighth being a five year old boy.  The flooding is actually pretty bad due to the fact that it continues to rain.  1000 people were evacuated fron Nelson Mandela Bay which shows good forecasting and planning by local agencies to get people into safe areas; but with the constant amount of rain that is falling a dam eventually burst and flooded the local area.  this particular storm also has damaged several roads and houses along the way. 
   In this certain sitation you start with a natural hazard because of all the rainfal but than you have a technological hazard when the dam broke out and put a bunch of other people at risk.  I think when this situation was looked at in a deeper route you can almost apply certain aspects of the swiss cheese model because you first had all the rainfall and storm, but with that yo were followed by damaged roads where you could not even drive on them anymore; than the dam broke out causing other people that needed to be evacuated.  All of these factors could have caused rescue efforts to have been stalled but luckily it was not that bad.

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