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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became saturated and preoccupied by the anticipation of a coming storm. Although northern New Jersey is not normally where hurricanes violently meet land and its inhabitants‚ the weather pattern became apparent that we were not going to escape this one. On October 29‚ Hurricane Sandy began to embrace and ravish everything impeding its chosen path. Instead of soccer and candy giving‚ the days were complete with continued damage from the storm‚ school cancellations‚ and gas lines. For my creative project
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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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growling. It seemed that after such an amazing day as this one that this vacation could only get better‚ but alas that was not in nature’s plans. The next morning‚ dark clouds loomed in the horizon‚ signaling a storm; little did I know that it would turn out to be the mother of all tropical storms; a hurricane! Most occupants of the island were in a hurry to leave‚ but the bridge was the only way out of the island‚ other than the airport which was closed in this emergency. While most of the city’s
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What is a tropical cyclone? A tropical cyclone is a storm system in the Southern Hemisphere‚ with a closed circulation around a center of low pressure‚ driven by heat energy released as moist air drawn in over warm ocean waters rises and condenses. The circular eye or centre of a tropical cyclone is an area characterised by light winds and often by clear skies. They derive their energy from the warm tropical oceans and do not form unless the sea-surface temperature is above 26.5°C‚ although‚ once
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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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great power. ƒæWhat is the tone of Stanza II? How does the author describe the clouds? In Stanza II we find the poet to be rather uncertain and concerned with the violence and terror of air storms. This would also be the tone of this stanza. Shelley seeks to emphasize the terrifying darkness of the storm scene‚ with its darkness and associations with death. The clouds are described as being dark‚ stormy‚ foreshadowing a bad‚ ill - tempered mood or aura. ƒæWhy is the poet using the imagery of waves
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Storm in the Black forest is written by D.H Lawrence during the 1800’s.Lawrence is describing a storm in the Black Forest (a huge forest in southern Germany)‚ which he has seen when visiting there in July 1929. Lawrence describes the storm in powerful words and creates the point that humanity has not and probably cannot master the power of nature. . Lawrence has written the poem in free verse‚ there is an irregular pattern and no rhyming scheme which achieves a chaotic fell just like a storm.
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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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1. Why does Laskin state that the horrible blizzard of 1888 “hit the most thickly settled sections of Nebraska and Dakota Territory at the worse possible moment”? Describe the dramatic change in temperatures that accompanied this storm. Why were the humble people of this raw region of the prairie prone to take risks‚ even in the face of devastating blizzard? 2. In the post-Civil War years‚ what factors encourage the stampede of settler into America’s heartland‚ which earlier had been thought to
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