Chattanooga is home to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) and Chattanooga State Community College.
The Sunshine State has been pummeled by dozens of tropical storm systems since the 1950s -- none worse than Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The Category 5 hurricane with gusts of more than 200 mph held the title as the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Severe freezes have been disastrous for Florida farming on multiple occasions.
As can be seen, hazards have been classified in a number of waysâusually by cause. Fischhoff et al. (1978) recognize that, in terms of both events and consequences, natural hazards differ from technological hazards. Similarly, Britton and Oliver (1991) differentiate between natural and technological hazards. According to them, natural hazards result from a lack of control, whereas technological hazards result from a loss of control. They conclude that hazards have three origins: (1) natural; (2) failure or misuse of technological processes; and (3) misapplication of technology, medicine, or biology.