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    Hurricane sandy essay

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    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 and seeing it be destroyed by a natural disaster over night‚ is heart breaking. The jersey Shore is where I grew up. It’s where my father grew up and where his father grew up too

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    Essay On Hurricane Irma

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    Hurricane Irma was a natural disaster that mainly affected the Caribbean and Florida. Irma had struck the Florida Keys as a category 4 hurricane on September 10th‚ and was reduced to category 3 when it struck mainland Florida later that same day (Manzo‚ 2017). Prior to making landfall‚ the path that Irma would take was unclear. This uncertainty lead Governor Rick Scott to issue an evacuation order for 6.5 million residents (The New York Times‚ 2017). In the days preceding hurricane Irma‚ roads

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    Hurricanes are storms that form over tropical parts of oceans‚ once they hit land they can be disastrous and wipe out people‚ cars‚ and even buildings! Some hurricanes will form in the ocean and never actually hit land. Hurricanes are more common to occur during hurricane season which starts in June and ends in late November. If you live in a tropical area near an ocean then you will likely experience hurricanes more frequently even if it isn’t hurricane season. Hurricanes begin as tropical depressions

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    Hurricanes are powerful atmospheric vortices that are intermediate in size. Hurricanes are unique and powerful weather systems. The word "hurricane" comes from a Caribbean word meaning "big wind". Views of hurricanes can be seen from a satellite positioned thousands of miles above the earth. Hurricanes originate as tropical disturbances over warm oceans with trade winds. The tropical turbances intensify into tropical depressions‚ and eventually into a tropical storm. They only originate

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    "Crack!" Down goes an immense tree. Hurricanes and Tornadoes are lethal catastrophes that are strong enough to destroy anything in their paths. They have similarities but have differences as well. To start off‚ Hurricanes and Tornadoes are similar because they scaled on a one to five scale. Also‚ wind‚ rain‚ and hail are crucial fragments of these fatal natural disasters. Likewise‚ they both are cyclonic‚ and they contain harmful rotating winds. Similarly‚ they both spin counterclockwise in the

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    Hurricanes: Deadly and Unavoidable Earth has many weather changes throughout the year and certain periods of climate called seasons. These seasons are called winter‚ spring‚ summer‚ and fall; each of these seasons brings a certain type of weather. For example‚ winter would bring you cold days and nights with high chances of snow every now and then. Summer‚ on the other hand‚ will give you humid or dry hot days with really warm nights with the casual thunderstorm. These weather changes are all

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    Texas Hurricane Harvey

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    Everyone has been aware of the damage that Hurricane Harvey has done to the state of Texas‚ yet the devastation is not only hitting the average American’s heart‚ but their wallets as well. Texas is a major supplier of oil to the country and Hurricane Harvey has put an abrupt halt to its oil production and refining. It is even quoted by Tom Kloza‚ the global head of energy analysis for Oil Price Information Service that “Satan could not have drawn up a more horrible geographic scenario for knocking

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    Do you know how to prepare for a category five hurricane like Irma? We get the warnings from our local news station‚ but we always hope “that” the hurricane is not coming to our town. Reality is hurricanes have no patterns‚ and while weather predictions are vastly improving through technology‚ unfortunately hurricanes are hard to predict where they will make landfall until that very day. To begin let’s discuss protection of the residence “your home is one of your largest investments‚ so protecting

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    in the history. Such acute was the ailment of these companies that the former two could not survive and filed bankruptcy. Later these were saved by the national Government funded bail-out packages except for the Ford Motor Company which not only survived the slump but also flourished in the later years. In 2005 the US automakers were incurring huge losses due to spiraling fuel costs and economic slowdown across the globe. Adding to the losses were rising prices of components and reversals of vehicles

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    Hurricane Repair There have been many moments in my life that have made an impact on myself or others‚ but one that I will always remember is my People to People trip to Tulane University in New Orleans. This week allowed me to come out of my shell‚ grow as a person‚ and help hundreds of people who suffered after hurricane Katrina. Along with my growth as a person and help towards others‚ I had the opportunity to learn about the culture of New Orleans while touring the beautiful city. My trip to

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