The first painting is Tornado Over Kansas by John Steuart Curry. It is an American painting done in 1929. It was created using oil on canvas. In the picture you see a family consisting a mother, father, two young boys, a baby in the mother’s arms, and a young girl along with various animals that they are attempting to herd into the cellar. The younger of the two boys is carrying a black cat, the older boy is carrying several puppies and the young girl is dragging the dog while being led by her father’s hand. In the distance you can see a few horses running around in panic because of the approaching tornado. In the background there is a large funnel cloud that is approaching. There are no other houses or buildings in the background, other than two…
It’s May 6, 1840 at 9:00 PM. The Bair’s are going to bed. Trenton and Max go to their room and lay down, but just can’t seem to fall asleep because of the loud rain hitting the roof. They go and see if their mom, Heather, and their dad, Hunter, are asleep. They walk into their parents’ room and see them sitting on their bed. They are concerned about the weather so they decide to go outside and check it out. It is raining really hard and lightning fills the sky.…
The Scope article "Joplin Tornado: The Evil Swirling Darkness" is about the effects of the tornado and how the people of Joplin rebuild. The beginning was about how the fateful day started. In the middle was about the tornado's rampage through the town and the destruction it caused in it's wake. At the end of the article was about how the people of the town survived except for 158 and how they rebuilt.…
The so called Tri-State tornado’s path was 219 miles long before the twister ran out of energy and dissipated. The Tri-State tornado devastated 164 square miles of towns farms and neighborhoods leaving nothing but rubble and lost memories. The estimated speeds of over 300 mph and has broke the United States record for the fasted tornado in the U.S.A. The Tri-State tornado started at 1 p.m. and there were over 2,000 injuries. The hospitals in the area are full with the injured and dead. We had an interview with an old cow farmer who made it out, sadly his wife and cows didn’t have the same outcome. This is what he had to say “All I saw was a massive cloud of dust coming and the next thing I knew I heard my wife screaming so I ran to find her and the house just fell” he said he got pinned and couldn’t move. He then passed out and woke up in…
The Joplin tornado included many details common to tornadoes and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region, but the area has recovered in its aftermath. The Joplin, Missouri tornado was only one of the first of many destructive and devastating natural disasters to come in 2011. A tornado starts as a spinning tunnel of wind in the sky, but the second it touches the ground it becomes a tornado.…
The tornado that happened in Dupree occurred in June of the year 2010. It was a regular day, the wind was blowing, there were lots of rain coming down, and it was cloudy. Well that was what we thought, because there was no tornadoes that happened in Dupree for a long time. Before my family and I got a chance to make even dinner, the first tornado whistle came on. My family and I went in the truck to see where it was or see if we could spot a tornado. After scouting for a bit, we took off and went back home getting ready in case the tornado actually did touch the ground and make it toward town. If I remember right, I think it was after the third whistle went off and that was when the first tornado was seen coming closer into town. That’s when…
The mile wide tornado traveled six miles through the Joplin. Since 1947, it was the deadliest tornado in the United States due to the one hundred and fifty eight deaths that came from the storm. Seventy five hundred homes were destroyed, five hundred businesses unsettled, fifteen thousand plus vehicles were thrown about like ragdolls some rolled up into balls, others wrapped around trees while some were never found. This tornado proved to be one of the costliest at damages estimated at two point eight billion dollars (Erdman, 2016).…
Never have the winds of change brought such a mighty and powerful change. Tornados are watched by millions. They are fascinating for those who record them and deadly to those who watch them. Weather is a continually changing thing and tornados make up just part of the word’s list of Nature Disasters. Oklahoma’s history would not be the same without tornados, but why are tornadoes so well known? And what makes them so dangerous?…
Hurricane Katrina swept away the gulf coast on August 25, 2009. Katrina was the most monstrous storm that has ever visited the coast and was considered an amalgam of tropical waters and dusty winds. It was the deadliest hurricane of category five causing horrendous damage and traumatizing scenes. Many lives were taken away and many lives have changed.…
On 17 September 2014, Maricopa Community College (MCC) provided a forum where Dr. Shauan Pan, President of the MCC Honors Program, hosted a lecture. Pan invited Reed Timmer, CEO of Weather Fusion, LLC and Extreme Tornado Tours, LLC to present his experiences in storm chasing. Timmer is an extreme weather chaser and one of the few to document hurricane Katrina, which was the most devastating hurricane to strike the U.S. mainland. He has also witnessed over two hundred fifty tornadoes. Timmer is one of the most distinguished storm chasers in the world and is currently working on his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.…
I was about four years old when everything went to chaos and destruction. But what three year old would feel frightened or afraid of ever breath, not knowing if it was their last. As a child, I was ignorant and naive to what was happening around me in the world. I didn’t know that the city surrounding me, would soon be drowned and submerged in the legendary Hurricane Katrina.Though I was only four and couldn't recall many details of the catastrophic event, my mother remembered everything. We had heard two weeks prior ahead of time what was to come, however my mother having always been a strong-willed woman was determined not to leave despite the attempts my grandparents and father made for her to evacuate New Orleans with me and leave.Yet,…
Everyone has peaceful and strange events that occurred in their lifetime. There are several chances that one expects something pleasant to happen and it comes true. On the other side, an occasion doesn’t appear when somebody expects it. I can explain this with my personal account of Hurricane Sandy, an event that occurred on October 29, 2012 and ended on November 2, 2012. This affected the northeast portion of the United States. As a result of this event, I had lost power, had a tough time doing tasks, and took my education away. On the other hand, I was thankful that the disaster ended a few days later.…
If I were to have thirty minutes before a destructive hurricane were to hit. I would be ready for it because I would take the necessary stuff to survive it. It was a warm September weekend when I had heard from the news that a destructive hurricane was gonna will hit in thirty minutes.…
Imagine a state fair packed with people and every second you get sacked, the fairs like a football game and you’re on offense and you keep trying to dodge the defensive end. The fair is really expensive, the rides are five dollars apiece, when I went on the tilt a whirl the person that operated the ride got on without being in a seat so right before the ride ended he ran into me but for some reason I was laughing hysterically. The guy must have gotten hurt because when I went back I looked over at the ride and then I saw a new guy operating the ride. After that I went on a ride that looked like a spider and that ride went really fast as fast as a rabbit running away from a hunter, I was on the ride for seven minutes it just kept going up and…
All my life I’ve always wanted to be a Meteorologist. As a child I would always stand outside during Hurricane season and look up at the sky and try to predict what would happen next. My goals in life are to graduate from high school and go to college in Florida. I would start off at Santa Fe community college for 2 years and major in Science and then transfer to the University of Florida where I will then continue my education and receive a Bachelor in Atmospheric Science. While at the University of Florida I plan to also intern at local news broadcasting as a Meteorologist. In 5 years I see myself out of college working at Channel 4 News for Jax in Jacksonville, Florida as a Meteorologist grossing over $91,579 a year. In 10 years, I plan to continue working at Channel 4 News for Jax and potentially embarking upon a family and Marriage.…