Introduction Hurricanes represent a significant problem for emergency managers. As a common natural disaster, emergency managers must be able to deal with the problems associated with them. One important hurricane was Hurricane Gustav. This hurricane struck in the 2008 hurricane season. It is considered a major storm within the study...

Collective behavior is a term used to describe the phenomenon where existing social structures are broken by a group of people acting in an unusual way that then becomes the norm for that group. This can be something like a craze (in which a group of people take up an...