Project Title: Stronger Turbines‚ Weaker Hurricanes Project ID # 970G Abstract Currently‚ fossil fuels plague our planet‚ destroying the environment and increasing the rate of global warming. This increases the frequency in which hurricanes are created‚ contributing to the end of numerous lives and billions of dollars in damages. The systems devised to protect cities from these natural disasters are often flawed‚ costing a large sum of money or requiring an excessive amount of land. However‚ according
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Hurricane Katrina was the most dangerous‚ deadly‚ and horrifying storm to ever hit United States. Hurricane Katrina was so powerful that it devastated the lives of the people of New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ as well as other Gulf Coast areas. On August 29‚ 2005 at 8:00 am‚ Hurricane Katrina reached Category 5 status. The storm hit the city hard and was the lead story on the national media stage for a number of weeks. The city was wiped out and the clean up and renovation of what is left of The City Of
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Hurricane Mitch‚ 1998 In October 1998 a tropical storm developed to the east of Central America and began moving towards the countries of Nicaragua and Honduras. As it reached the coast‚ winds of more than 280 km/h were recorded‚ and torrential rain caused large areas to be flooded. Roads and bridges were washed away‚ and in some areas complete villages were destroyed as winds tore down the poor-quality buildings. As rain continued to fall‚ large areas of land quickly flooded. On steeper slopes
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The characteristics of a sandy shore at Pallarenda beach‚ Townsville‚ North Queensland. Introduction: The sandy shores of beaches can be considered as a very harsh environment to live in (Ted Klenk‚ 1999). Survival in such a habitat requires an organism to withstand strong wave and current action‚ tidal rise and fall‚ unstable substrate‚ heavy predation and wide variations in salinity and temperature (The Otter Island Project). Any organism found in this type of harsh environment is specialized
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According to scientists‚ hurricanes that are in a higher category of 3 can cause serious damage to the city. If we don’t evacuate more people will get injured or die because of the hurricane. As long as we outrun the hurricane and evacuate we will save more lives than if we stayed in our homes. You’ll see why‚ hurricanes are large‚ spiraling tropical storms that can pick up speeds over 160 miles per hour(MPH)and unleashes more than 2.4 trillion gallons a day. However‚ on September 8‚1900 when a
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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. I was taking a morning run when I came home from receiving an alert from my phone saying that a hurricane was gonna hit. I was running at my fullest I had adrenaline running through my bloodstream which had me running
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In the morning of August 29‚ 2005‚ a Category 3 hurricane‚ named Hurricane Katrina‚ hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. It started forming over the Bahamas on August 23 and peaked at a Category 5 hurricane. Katrina had winds up to 140 miles per hour. It went on for 400 miles. It’s force was felt in 5 states‚ such as Mississippi and Alabama‚ but the biggest hit was to Louisiana. More specifically‚ New Orleans. New Orleans has an average elevation of six feet below sea level. Since many neighborhoods
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Hurricane Hugo‚ one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina’s history‚ originated from a wave that moved west off of Africa’s coastline on September 9‚ 1989. Throughout the night and into the morning of September 10‚ Hugo had been classified as a tropical depression. As Hugo moved across the warm waters of the Atlantic it gained more and more strength. It wasn’t until September 14th that Hugo gained enough strength to be classified as a hurricane. On September 15th‚ Hugo turned west-north
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Galveston originated as a tropical storm in the central Atlantic Ocean. The storm made a path south of Hispaniola. 6 days later the storm continued a path over Cuba‚ during this time the storm remained in it’s tropical storm phase. The storm reached hurricane state near Key West‚ Florida. Galveston continued from Florida up the Gulf of Mexico through Texas and Louisiana.It finally made landfall in Galevstone‚Texas on September 8‚1900.Gavelstone was also named on September 8‚1900‚ it was obviously named
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the novel‚ A Lesson Before Dying‚ The movie The Hurricane tells a story of an African American man who is accused of a triple murder and is convicted and sent to jail for three natural life terms. On the other hand‚ the symbolic value of the word “manhood” is also discussed and analyzed by linking the word to human values and morals. Set up in a place and time where strong segregation was the social issue‚ Rubin and Les from the movie “The Hurricane” and also Jefferson and Grant from Ernest Gaines’s
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