How do people in South Florida deal with different extreme weather

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How do people in South Florida deal with different extreme weather Slide 2 Climate and Vegetation Slide 3 Bay of Bangal: Have ebony trees, lush vines and orchids Slide 4 Sundarbans: a swampy area in Southwestern Bangladesh and Northern eastern coast of India. Worlds largest protected mangrove forest Slide 5 Thar Desert: Lies East of the Indus River, Livestock graze in some areas, and irrigation makes it possible to grow some wheat near the river, but much it is sandy and empty. Slide 6 Climate Region Climate ConditionsNatural Vegetation TropicalHot & Wet or Hot and DryRainforest, grassland, dry evergreen & moist deciduous forest, mangroves DryArid, HotDesert scrub, low thorny trees and grasses Midlatitude Highland Humid subtropical to Cold (up in the Himalayas Dry evergreens, mixed forests, coniferous & hardwood trees, grasslands, & bamboo trees Slide 7 Cyclones: The same as Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, produce high heavy winds and heavy rains Slide 8 Tsunamis: huge waves caused by underwater earthquakes Slide 9 Monsoons: Seasonal winds that help South Asia have three distinct seasons. In the Hot season, air across South Asia is heated and becomes unstable, It causes a change in wind direction which brings monsoon rains Slide 10 You tube video Monsoon Delay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtrG4Sr- Fw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtrG4Sr- Fw You tube Video Monsoon floods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmOdahj 8lqQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmOdahj 8lqQ Youtube Video Tsunamis Sri Lanka resort http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o56F7PXDk 4E Cyclone in India http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9kf7- sLRo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9kf7- sLRo