Trade Center. The storm made it to New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph winds killed at least 16 people in seven states‚ cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses from Carolina to Ohio. The storm also caused fear at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold. Hundreds of miles from the storm’s center‚ gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland‚ Maine‚ and scaring away several cruise ships. The massive storm reached well into the
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neighborhood is meant to transport the visitor’s back in time to New York’s mid-19th century‚ to demonstrate what life in the commercial maritime trade like was like. This is now being threatened and may never be the same because of damage the recent storm Hurricane Sandy caused. In most parts of lower Manhattan‚ few signs remain of damaging flood waters and impacting winds from Sandy that nearly washed away this part of the city back in October. In some of the hard hit areas the power is back on
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England‚ home in North Truro‚ Cape Cod and we’re prepared for a pleasant two weeks of sun bathing and swimming at the beach. All went as planned for the first two days‚ the temperature was beautiful and the waves were exceptional. Minor reports of a big storm possibly hitting the coast loomed in the back of beachgoers’ minds; however nothing could ruin their vacation at the beach. The seemingly endless coast was packed with people who seemed more than content with the weather so far‚ until the eighteenth
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Bram Stoker was a European author who wrote during the Victorian movement (1837-1901). During this literary period‚ authors focused their works around a multitude of topics‚ including‚ but not limited to‚ nature‚ the growing population and the industrial revolution in Europe‚ the relationships between people and their environment‚ the events that follow when one leaves their community‚ and how an individual’s actions affect either themselves or other people. Stoker explores some of these topics of
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INTRODUCTION A "Cyclonic Storm" or a "Cyclone" is an intense vortex or a whirl in the atmosphere with very strong winds circulating around it in anti-clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. The word "Cyclone" is derived from the Greek‚ word "Cyclos" meaning the coils of a snake. To Henri Peddington‚ the tropical storms in the Bay of Bengal and in the Arabian Sea appeared like the coiled serpents of the sea and he named these storms as "Cyclones"
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through a violent storm at sea‚ which portrays the forces of nature The passage starts with a sense of an atmosphere‚ “The music of the ship was howling around him.” This sentences is very filled with visual and auditory imagery. The opening sentence creates a feeling of a fast-paced rhythm in its brief expression. The pace reflects the craziness of flooding rain and surging sea. The metaphor of the ship’s “music… howling” brings an auditory imagery which symbolizes the storm‚ which overwhelms
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City with record-breaking force on October of 2012‚ claiming many lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. According to National Geographic (2012)‚ the super storm killed over one hundred people in Haiti and the Caribbean and another one hundred people in the United States‚ 43 of those being New York City residents. The large storm surge flipped trees‚ swept away cars‚ and even destroyed many buildings and homes. The large amount of water in the city caused 8 million homes to lose power as well
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Igor The people of Newfoundland and Labrador are used to watching natural disasters on television‚ not usually do they get to expierence them up front. But on September 22‚ 2010 Newfoundland and Labrador was hit by Hurricane Igor‚a storm that effected everyone in different ways. Some of the effects of Hurricane Igor were flooding and power outages that lasted up to 12 days. The Hurricane ripped through Newfoundland as a category 1 Hurricane‚ and left at least 30 communities
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director of nature being unpredictable‚ dangerous and deadly. One example of nature’s unpredictability is the plane crash that left Tom Hanks’ character cast away. The crash was caused by a lightning strike during a sudden violent storm. On many days‚ there were violent storms which made Chuck Noland’s life on the island even more difficult. As well as struggling to keep his life‚ Tom Hanks’ character struggled to keep his sanity. His struggle is shown clearly by Tom Hanks’ acting. Tom Hanks’ acting
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Write a commentary on one of the following: The music of the ship was howling around him. The low whistlings; the tortured rumbles; the wheezy sputters of breeze flowing through it. The clatter of loose wainscoting. The clank of chains. The groaning of boards. The blare of wind. Never before had he felt rain quite like it. It seemed to spew from the clouds‚ not merely to fall. He watched the wave rise up from a quarter of a mile away. Rolling. Foaming. Rushing. Surging. Beginning to thicken and
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