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From the Ted Talk by Caitria + Morgan O'Neill: How to step up in the face of disaster

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is the slide for Katrina. This is the curve for Joplin. And this is the cuvre for the Dallas tornadoes in April, where we deployed software. There's a gap here. Affected households have to wait for the insurance ajetudsr to visit before they can start atcincepg help on their properties. And you've only got about four days of interest in dlalas.

MO: Data. Data is ietrnnhely unsexy, but it can jump-start an area's recovery. FEMA and the state will pay 85 percent of the cost of a federally-declared disaster, lveniag the town to pay the last 15 percent of the bill. Now that expense can be huge, but if the town can mibizloe X amount of volunteers for Y hours, the dollar value of that labor used goes toward the town's contribution. But who knows that? Now try to imagine the sinking feeling you get when you've just sent out 2,000 volunteers and you can't prvoe it.

Open Cloze


This is the slide for Katrina. This is the curve for Joplin. And this is the _____ for the Dallas tornadoes in April, where we deployed software. There's a gap here. Affected households have to wait for the insurance ________ to visit before they can start _________ help on their properties. And you've only got about four days of interest in ______.

MO: Data. Data is __________ unsexy, but it can jump-start an area's recovery. FEMA and the state will pay 85 percent of the cost of a federally-declared disaster, _______ the town to pay the last 15 percent of the bill. Now that expense can be huge, but if the town can ________ X amount of volunteers for Y hours, the dollar value of that labor used goes toward the town's contribution. But who knows that? Now try to imagine the sinking feeling you get when you've just sent out 2,000 volunteers and you can't _____ it.

Solution


  1. curve
  2. mobilize
  3. inherently
  4. leaving
  5. dallas
  6. adjuster
  7. accepting
  8. prove

Original Text


This is the slide for Katrina. This is the curve for Joplin. And this is the curve for the Dallas tornadoes in April, where we deployed software. There's a gap here. Affected households have to wait for the insurance adjuster to visit before they can start accepting help on their properties. And you've only got about four days of interest in Dallas.

MO: Data. Data is inherently unsexy, but it can jump-start an area's recovery. FEMA and the state will pay 85 percent of the cost of a federally-declared disaster, leaving the town to pay the last 15 percent of the bill. Now that expense can be huge, but if the town can mobilize X amount of volunteers for Y hours, the dollar value of that labor used goes toward the town's contribution. But who knows that? Now try to imagine the sinking feeling you get when you've just sent out 2,000 volunteers and you can't prove it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
disaster recovery 3
dallas tornadoes 2


Important Words


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