Policy Failure
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Maria
FEMA
Natural Disasters Fun Fact
100

Bush's appointees struggled in their role as FEMA Director because of this

What is they had no experience with disaster relief?

100

The city where Hurricane Katrina occurred

Where is New Orleans?

100

Where Hurricane Maria took place

Where is Puerto Rico?

100

The President that formed FEMA

Who is Jimmy Carter?

100
This phenomena is responsible for an increase in natural disasters around the globe

What is climate change?

200

Policies either fail to deliver what they promise or they fail because of this

What is unintended/unforeseen consequences?

200

Name of the FEMA Director during this natural disaster

Who is Michael Brown?

200

The percentage of cell towers that were down during Hurricane Maria

What is 95%?

200

The federal organization FEMA merged with

What is Department of Homeland Security?

200

The deadliest natural disaster is...

What are floods?

300

Lack of adaptability is something that occurs in this type of policy implementation

What is the top-down approach?

300

The number of days it took the government to respond

What is 6 days?

300

Name one type of emergency supply FEMA was short on

Potential answers: Cots, Tarps, Generators

300

The program James Lee Witt created as Director of FEMA

What is Project Impact?

300
The rarest natural disaster is...

What is a limnic eruption?

400

Fire alarm oversight suffers from this bias which makes it more likely that marginalized communities are not heard

What is selective attention bias?

400

The percentage of homes that grew mold post Hurricane Katrina

What is 46%?

400

The type of burden that FEMA workers faced when they did not know what type of supplies were being sent?

What is an administrative burden?

400

This is what FEMA stands for

What is Federal Emergency Management Agency?

400

The most devastating hurricane in US history

What is The Great Galveston Hurricane?

500

Rep. Benny Thompson says this "This report still does not explain ho or why Puerto Rico was clearly treated differently than the states that faced natural disasters last year," what type of learning is this an example of

What is double loop learning?
500

Wind speeds during Hurricane Katrina

What is 174 mph?

500
During this month and year, the final households that lost power were reattached to the grid

When is mid-August 2018?

500

The chemical found in abundance in the FEMA trailers distributed

What is formaldehyde?

500

Neil deGrasse Tyson proposed laser ablation to deal with this natural disaster..,

What are asteroids!!!!!