(2012‚ Jan 16). Typhoon Sendong Experience. Retrieved December 15‚ 2012 from http://karaamille.blogspot.com/2012/01/typhoon-sendong-experience.html http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/index.php Longshore‚ D. (2008). Encyclopedia of hurricanes‚ typhoons‚ and cyclones. New York: Facts on File
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Charlie Wilson’s War Charles Nesbitt Wilson was a United States naval officer who was also a former Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas’s 2nd congressional district. Charlie is best known for leading congress into supporting Operation Cyclone‚ the largest CIA covert operation which supplied military equipment to the Mujahideen including Stinger missile systems which were the main downfall of the USSR in the Afghan Proxy War. Charlie was born in the small town of Trinity‚ Texas. Charlie earned
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Bangladesh Flooding Flooding is one of the main facts of Bangladesh. It is a country located in South Asia bounded by India in the north; Bay of Bengal in East and West while Myanmar surrounds it in the South. The country has practiced several flooding throughout the years. Between July – September 1998 Bangladesh has experienced one of its disastrous floods. Many people were affected by the flooding because they lost their belongings‚ made homeless and lost their homes. In the worst flooding
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Hurricane Sandy Oct.29.2013 Sandy—A Record Breaking Natural Calamity Hurricane Sandy was one of the most devastating natural calamities of the region‚ in general. It affected incredible band of the Atlantic from Jamaica and Haiti to Canada. The storm caused countless casualties‚ damaged property and disrupted power for many days in some of the most developed and densely populated cities of the US. Despite all preparations and warnings from the concerned departments of the U.S.‚ Hurricane
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even dropped below hurricane status (based on a wind intensity scale) not long before it made landfall just south of Atlantic City NJ around 8 pm on October 29th‚ 2012. At this time‚ the National Hurricane Center referred to it as a “post-tropical cyclone” and stopped releasing hurricane advisories. But this lowering in status was no reflection of the destructive power this enormous storm still packed. Sandy was unusual in several aspects. Firstly as Sandy moved northward‚ the storm began to take on
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Hurricanes are tropical cyclones that form when the ocean’s waters warm up‚ due to global warming. They cause huge amounts of destruction on land‚ and threaten lives that they come in contact with. Hurricanes also have an impact on coastal cities‚ such as New Orleans‚ the home of many residents. Hurricanes that form inflicts damage that costs up to billions of dollars‚ and affect coastal cities in a way that can not be undone. So what causes a hurricane to form? Global warming contributes to the
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weather is warmer. The Joplin tornado’s wind speed was at its highest at an estimated 200 miles per hour‚ most tornado wind speeds only climb to about 150. Southwest Missouri was hit with a “multi-vortex” tornado‚ which is a tornado where two or more cyclones hide inside a wider wind tunnel. That kind of tornado is not very common‚ and that’s one of the factors that makes Joplin so well-known. The Joplin
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across the United States‚ some worse than others. Hurricane Sandy is one that we will never forget about. Super Storm Sandy‚ a Category 3 storm‚ as known as Hurricane Sandy was a dramatic event that happened in October 2012. Sandy was a post-tropical cyclone that swept through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Sandy begun as a tropical wave but it quickly aroused into a tropical storm in just 6 hours. It upgraded to a hurricane when the winds arose 74mph. Many States
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the first strike‚ Katrina came to be another hurricane in an active hurricane season. The storm had lost strength after hovering over Florida and‚ finally just became a tropical storm. But‚ water free again‚ Katrina halted under a large high level cyclone which influenced the entire Gulf of Mexico‚ and hastily obtained power. Again‚ on the 26 of August‚ Katrina had increased back to a hurricane‚ and developed into a Category 5 storm on the 28 of August‚ with winds storming at around 175mph (280kph)
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[pic] Mississippi depicting sediments due to erosion The finest beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast are located on Ship Island and are being eroded however; erosion is the thing that initially created the beaches. There were no beaches when oceans first covered the surface of the earth millions of years ago‚ only rocky shores. Over millions of years these solid stones were broken down into rocks by erosion‚ then were broken down into pebbles‚ and then into gravel‚ and then into sand. Rivers
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