Hurricane Essay Hurricanes are no joking matter. They can leave thousands of people devastated with no place to go home. If you aren’t prepared‚ any hurricane could be catastrophic. A category 5 hurricane can produce winds that exceed 156 mph! If the proper precautions aren’t taken‚ you and your loved ones could be in great danger. This essay will explain how you can properly prepare yourself for a category 5 storm. First‚ you should buy enough supplies to support you and your family for one
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Generally‚ the sound of hurricane force winds and snapping trees don’t combine to make the sweetest lullaby but for the hurricane season those sounds rocked me to sleep. Mix with my mother’s panic and some house leaks‚ I didn’t necessarily have the most eventful hurricane experience. The approach of hurricane Irma didn’t make me as nervous as much as it should have‚ most likely due to my mother worrying enough for the both of us. We covered everything important and not so important things in plastic
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FAMU 2012 Freshman Summer Reading Writing Assignment Dijona Brishae’ Clemons August 20‚ 2012 dijona1.clemons@famu.edu 2. Compare the portrayal of Katrina in Salvage the Bones to what you saw of the hurricane in the news. Which aspect of the storm’s devastation does this novel bring to life? What does Esch’s perspective add to your understanding of Katrina’s impact? When analyzing the horror of Katrina within Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones and the actual catastrophe that was broadcasted
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“The sky is falling through and you ain’t got much longer til the rage rips off the roof ‚I’m a tornado and i’m coming after you.”-google images.One of the most powerful and dangerous natural disasters is a Tornado because they are some of the world’s most deadliest natural disasters. What happens in a tornado‚ high winds and a low pressure system start rotating very fast until they eventually touches the ground or a body of water. How can a tornado be dangerous? Once it touches the ground it will
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There has always been a fascination with items that have the ability to light up the sky. From stars‚ to auroras‚ to lightning humans have been trying to capture these moments to learn more about our world. During this fascination humans have discovered a positive discharge‚ similar to lightning‚ known as the sprite. [Thesis] When one thinks of the term “sprite” the first thought to come to mind is something similar to small faeries that used to roam around in fairy tales‚ however‚ that soon became
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The stench carries for miles causing coughing and headaches; no one wants to be anywhere near the affected neighborhood because of the smell and bacteria. There’s the danger of contamination‚ loss of property values and health risks. The cause is raw sewage. Even though it’s an expensive fix‚ this problem could have been prevented if county engineers had done a better job of planning. Flood-related pollution is a huge issue because it presents such health risks to residents. Being a peninsula
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Growing up‚ the end of October typically meant playing soccer and finding a costume for trick-or-treating‚ but in 2012‚ my community became saturated and preoccupied by the anticipation of a coming storm. Although northern New Jersey is not normally where hurricanes violently meet land and its inhabitants‚ the weather pattern became apparent that we were not going to escape this one. On October 29‚ Hurricane Sandy began to embrace and ravish everything impeding its chosen path. Instead of soccer
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In the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina‚ more than one third of the evacuees in Houston shelters reported that they had spent time in the Superdome in New Orleans. About forty percent of the evacuees said that they had spent at least one day on the street or overpass waiting to be rescued. Moreover‚ 34% had reported that they were trapped in their homes‚ and some of them were trapped and waited for 3 days to be rescued. The National Guard as reported by evacuees rescued most of the people
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Hurricanes and tornadoes‚ two natural disasters that the U.S. sees every year with various amounts of destruction for each hurricane and tornado. While they may both be very different‚ they have their similarities. As with anything‚ hurricanes and tornadoes have their differences. For instance‚ hurricanes aren’t dependant on thunderstorms to birth them whereas tornadoes rely on a thunderstorm in order to appear. Compared to a hurricane‚ tornadoes are significantly less wider than hurricanes with
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The story “Stormbreaker” is a wonderful book about adventure and mysteries. In this book‚ there is a student called Alex who is around age 12. He lives with his uncle‚ Ian Rider. One day he is told that his uncle got in a “ car accident “‚ but Alex is smart enough to know that his uncle could not have possibly gotten into a car accident. So he tries to solve the mystery‚ after school‚ he goes to a car shop and sees his uncles car and as Alex has suspected his uncle had not gotten into a car accident
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