It was in the middle of the afternoon and the local school had come up to the Jay Mountain Church for a field trip. The church had caught on fire during their trip. Two boys hopped out of a T-Bird and rushed over. They tapped a man’s shoulder‚ asking what was going on. Then they suddenly bolted into the church‚ breaking the front window. After interviewing the man that they had talked to‚ he said and quote‚ “ We overheard someone yelling in the back of the church and those brave kids ran in to save
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Tornadoes and Hurricanes are somewhat alike. But most times they are not the same. Some tornadoes can pick up cars‚ houses‚ barns and more stuff. Both hurricanes and tornadoes can heart people and kill them. Some of them put people in the hospital. Tornadoes can heart really bad. But some can’t heart as bad. These tornadoes have lots of power to them. And some can pick up cars tear down houses and stuff like that. People have to go in a thing called a shelter so they don’t get heart or die
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..Janis Joplin.. There are many people I have come across in my life that have earned my gratitude and respect. Of all the great musical artists‚ I feel that Janis Joplin was much overlooked and was a woman far beyond her time. She was a very talented artist. She was a painter all through high school. She started singing after she graduated and she said it changed her life‚ "Painting is kind of a hold in and be quiet kind of thing and singing is a more free...‚ flow out kind of thing. Your whole
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A Thunderstorm It was a warm Saturday afternoon. I was alone at home as my parents had gone to visit my grandmother. I had just finished my school project and decided to relax on the veranda outside my room. I looked up the clear‚ blue sky and saw some white puffy clouds chasing one another. There was no hint of rain although I felt sticky all over‚ despite the fan going on at full blast earlier on. Then I heard the rumble of thunder a great distance away. A small squirrel scurried up
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A hurricane is a huge storm known as a “tropical cyclone”. These can also be identified as typhoons.The tropical storms winds must reach at least 74 mph to be considered a hurricane. Anything below this is just considered a tropical depression or a tropical storm. Hurricanes usually only occur in the Atlantic Hurricane season (June 1-November 30). Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. They use the warm moist air as fuel at the bottom of the hurricane. As the huge storm produces high wind speeds
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An essay on cyclone A cyclone is a very violent storm. It never comes alone. Heavy showers of rain‚ thunder and lightning are its companions. When a cyclone blows‚ it moves round and round in the form of small circles. It always changes its course when it blows. It does not move in the same direction like an ordinary storm. It occurs mostly in the warm parts of the world. India is in this region of the world. Hence cyclones often blow over her. In cold countries there is no cyclone. The signs of
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In Australia 2007 160 pilots undertook the cross country challenge at the summit of Mt Bora. Among them was Ewa Wisnierska a member of the German team and the world’s leading paraglider who had narrowly escaped death‚ with just a fractured pelvis in Switzerland August 2006. Six months after she had fractured her pelvis‚ she was going after the world championships. Ewa had to work very hard with her physical strength to return to the top after being out for six months. After four years of flying she
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Each day over 40‚000 thunderstorms are taking place on earth. A thunderstorm is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth’s atmosphere known as thunder. The meteorologically assigned cloud type associated with the thunderstorm is the cumulonimbus. Thunderstorms can generally form and develop in any geographic location‚ perhaps most frequently within areas located at mid-latitude when warm moist air collides with cooler air. They are the result
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Lesson Objective: After reviewing key vocabulary from and reading for comprehension the book titled‚ Eye of The Storm the learner will complete a comprehension and vocabulary worksheet. Standard Addressed: CC 5th Grade ELA Standards #1 & #4 #1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. #4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text‚ including figurative language such as metaphors and similes
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Flash flood From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Driving through a flash-flooded road Nepal Monsoon A flash flood after a thunderstorm in the Gobi‚ Mongolia A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes‚ rivers‚ dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm‚ hurricane‚ tropical storm‚ or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may occur after the collapse
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