It is important to be prepared for storm. Have you ever been in a tornado or hurricanes? You know if you have you can be injure very easily ‚and they can even kill you in a split second. Hurricanes one-o-one graphics‚ stated if a hurricane hits‚ it can cost around 15 billion dollars. On the other hand‚ if a tornadoes decide to strike it can cost about 500 million dollars. To be prepared for a tornado or hurricane you must know three biggest effects they can have‚ enormous wind‚ gigantic size
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In recent years natural disasters‚ such as tornados‚ hurricanes‚ and earth quakes‚ have become a common event all around the world; since the 1970’s the amount of natural disasters that occur in a year have tripled. Not only are these storms becoming more frequent‚ they’re also becoming more dangerous; thus creating more damage. However no storm in U.S history has caused more damage than hurricane Katrina. It’s estimated that the destruction caused by the storm cost over 125 billion. From the destruction
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Tornadoes are more destructive than hurricanes. Tornadoes are more powerful than hurricanes. Tornadoes have a higher wind speed. Tornadoes hit small areas and destroy a lot. Hurricanes mostly knock down objects‚ Tornadoes picks up and throw the objects. In addition to tornadoes being more destructive‚ the reason is because of the wind speed. Tornadoes wind speed is much higher than the hurricanes wind speed. The Fujita scale is for the different names and wind speeds for tornadoes. The F0- 40-72
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Imagine finding out that there is a hurricane that is a category five hurricane is about to hit your home town and you hear that you must leave the area. In a situation like this most individual use both the avoidance and the loss reduction techniques for risk management to protect their self from the hurricane. When using the avoidance techniques when a hurricane is come most individual who are in a flooded area would leave their homes and go to a shelter or another town that is not in the area
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converge on the Northeast to restore electricity.” (The Atlantic; In Focus with Alan Taylor.) Many people may be asking‚ what is this horrible thing that happened to the East coast? But unfortunately thousands of people are living this tragedy today. Hurricane Sandy struck on October 29‚ 2012 and destroyed most of the North East Shoreline‚ especially New Jersey. We need help from everyone‚ especially you‚ to rebuild the Jersey shore where millions of memories are lost. Living in a place my whole life
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Christina Thomas ’13 February 10‚ 2012 Crime during Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina caused many forms of distress‚ displacement and disruption to the community of New Orleans and the citizens most certainly were forced to act in drastic ways for survival. The response by the people has been considered forms of criminal activity and in all senses of legal activity has been defined as crime. Acts of looting and violence were reported by many reporters of various news media. Crimes were not
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6th 9/20/13 News Stories “Sherman notebook — Sherman shoring things up” Sherman High’s football team is cleaning up their plays after two sloppy games during their bye week. As they are reviewing basics‚ the team has also unveiled the new uniform for away games. Also‚ SHS’s cross country team’s season is also into their season. The coach pinpointed upperclassmen Madison Clinton and Sam Dick and underclassmen Veronica Sosa and Eladio Lira as the top runners for the girls and boys varsity teams
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Being a survivor of a hurricane must be one of the most emotionally and physically tasking situations. Many individuals lose countless belonging‚ but also family members and friends. Depending on the damage that occurred and various other factors‚ everyone that was affected by the hurricane is going to react differently. Some individuals might not have a strong reaction‚ while others may have a severe reaction to the situation. Individuals may even develop a psychological disorder after experiencing
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disaster I chose is Hurricane Ike. September 13th near Galveston‚ Texas. Ike was a category 2 hurricane at landfall with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph. Hurricane Ike produced a damaging‚ destructive and deadly storm surge across the upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts‚ and ended up being the third costliest natural disaster in the United States behind Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Andrew. They had structured telephone interviews assessing immediate effects of Hurricane Ike (damage‚ loss
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needs to use a mixture of literature styles such as diction‚ language‚ and syntax. In the essays “The Joy or Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie‚ “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X‚ and “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglas‚ the authors use a plethora of writing styles to prove how effective their tone is. In Sherman Alexie’s “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me‚” he uses many different characteristics of writing to portray his tone throughout the passage
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