enviormental science by Blake Henderson

What happened

81822_18 — 2025-08-21 20:00:38 UTC

Hurricane Harvey was a catagory 4 landfall that hit Rockfort Texas on August 25, 2017. The storm slowly moved over Texas causing record breaking rainfall raining over 60in. There was also record breaking flooding with over 19 trillion gallons of rain water fell damaging more than 300,000 structures and 500,000 vehicles.

How did it impact people

81822_18 — 2025-08-21 20:16:40 UTC

There were ore than 107 deaths and over 10,000 injuries many of these were do to the severe flooding damaging over 200,000 homes and buisnesses were destroyed displacing lots of families in Texas

How did we adress it?

81822_18 — 2025-08-22 19:41:45 UTC

After hurricane Harvey many states tried to save the enviormental loss first but many efforts were made to contribute to a community centered recovery trying to rebuild structures and help everyone who was imapcted weather it was small or large. This mainly reflects the Anthropocentric value system because we mainly valued the recovery and growth of humans but still helped try to save the enviormental loss through replanting, regrowth and donating to tree farms and ranches helping them recover from this disaster. The local support also can represent a ecocentric solution value.

How did this impact the economics and enviorment

81822_18 — 2025-08-22 19:46:00 UTC

Harvey caused a total of 121 billion dollars in repairs costs, rescue cost, and damages. There were also very many water damages like water pollution there was large amounts of heavy metal in floodwater that flowed through Texas midlands. There was also lots of toxic air pollution due to chemical spills after hurricane Harvey. Many animals and people lost habitats causing a loss in land due to flooding and growth of wetlands. This effected climate change in many ways like warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels, this also caused a long term buildup of green house gasses by burning fossil fuels during the rebuilding of these destroyed cities.

Why is this event important

81822_18 — 2025-08-22 20:16:40 UTC

Hurricane Harvey was destructive in many ways but it mainly effected habitat loss, climate change, and development loss throught many places. During Harvey the extreme flooding caused development loss making more flooding territory ruining homes and new development land. Due to the super warm sea tempeatures in Mexico the water helped fuel the storm that lead to increased rainfall and flooding. The National Climate Association predicted that future climate disasters could be related to Harvey due to the impact and size of the event and the dent it left in USA, Mexico, and many other places causing it to become one of the biggest hurricanes to ever hit the USA.

How did this change the way humans view the enviorment?

81822_18 — 2025-08-22 20:26:28 UTC

This event helped shape how humans view the enviorment because after it happened they realized the impact it had when crops, land, buidlings, and families. This showed many people how fast your life can changein the blink of an eye effecting economics and even climate change turning future events worse and more disasterous. This made many people realize the impact they can create in the world. Lots of non profits were created and more and more people stated to volenteer more to see the comunity recover.

Interesting facts

81822_18 — 2025-08-22 20:35:37 UTC

Many very big non profits were made becasue of hurricane Harvey like the Rebel Recovery Fund that helped over 100,000 people try too bounce back from this disaster.

There were very many military personal involved in these rescues in Texas like the Navy and Marines who helped save and retreave stuck citizens using planes boats and lifter vehicles.

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2025-08-25 20:02:22 UTC