until the devastating tornados hit. On May 11‚ 1953 a record tornado hit‚ killing 114 people‚ Injuring 600‚ more than 600 business and home were demolished. The Tornado left damages estimating at $41 million dollars. This is known to be the deadliest tornado in Texas history and the tenth deadliest in the nation. The town was slow to recover. When I first moved there I heard a lot of stories of how this small town would have been as big if not bigger than Dallas if the tornado did not hit. Ridding
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Application of Risk Management Techniques Treats that this company is vulnerable to are but not limited to tornado‚ malware‚ equipment failure‚ stolen data‚ DoS attacks & social engineer. The like likelihood of each is moderate to high. Headquarter is located right in tornado alley. Since this building house all three serves‚ a direct hit would result in a total loss. Since the users connect to the LAN with Windows Vista which is very outdate the risk of malware is also high. Along with having all
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difference between ordinary cell thunderstorms and severe thunderstorms‚ is that severe thunderstorms “produce at least one of the following: large hail with a diameter of at least one inch‚ surface wind gusts of at least 50 knots (58 mi/hr)‚ or a tornado” (Ahrens‚ 2014‚ p.288). Some conditions that favor the development of a severe thunderstorms are: 1. random‚ turbulent eddies that lift small bubbles of air 2. unequal heating at the surface 3. the effect of terrain (such as small hills) or
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INT1 Task 1 Jamie Hildebrand Hurricane Satellite Image‚ NOAA‚ n.d.‚ retrieved from: http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitoring/inland_flooding.html Weather Forecasts From folklore and proverbs to modern radar technology‚ the scientific understanding of weather prediction has evolved through time. Several inventions such as the thermometer‚ barometer and even satellites have given way to immense knowledge of weather conditions. Mild‚ sunny days are perfect for picnics‚ but those aren’t the weather
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The evacuations ordered were hectic; a total of 1.5 million were evacuated in all of Florida. Another 27‚000 military personnel were dispatched‚ in addition to tornado warnings. Andrew caused $26.5 billion with most of the damage being felt in southern Florida. Hitting the keys and Dade County at category F5 strength. As the hurricane crossed the end of southern Florida it weakened and fell into the Gulf of Mexico;
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and that Vonnegut chose tornadoes to show God’s roll. There was no other weather change in the entire book except for the tornadoes. There was no snow‚ rain or hail. He never made a single comment about the sun‚ but found it important to include a tornado‚ multiple tornadoes at that‚ something that man cannot create. Tornadoes are an act of God. Tornadoes are one of the most feared natural disasters and leave behind a substantial amount of damage that is often beyond repair. Mankind did their part
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perspective to how the poem is read‚ as there is no correct way to finish the poem. Another of Choi’s poems that makes interesting use of the physical space on the page is‚ “Tornado.” On the page‚ the stanzas look like little tornados‚ they start off wide and become smaller as you move down the page. This poem uses the image of a tornado to depict of the speaker feels as they are revolting against an oppressive
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This story begins in the springtime of Folly Beach‚ a fairly peaceful and beautiful town in South Carolina. Thomas Fowl‚ your average seventeen year old teenager is at the bay watch alone with no one around to be seen. Suddenly‚ a tornado grows before his eyes could blink and becomes large enough to wipe the entire city and turn it into a dust-pile. As the lighthouse was about to fall on him he wakes up and realizes it was nothing but a nightmare‚ or was it. His teacher yells at him then asks “So
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phallic phase. Terrified of the idea of being destroyed by father’s phallus‚ Dorothy projects ( another of Freud’s ides was that of projection‚ turning a feeling into something other than itself ) her fear into the form of the tornado. In deed Dervin even suggests that this tornado "may well be a remarkably apt
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alter the path of a tornado‚ or might delay‚ accelerate‚ or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in another location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system‚ which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings‚ the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. While the butterfly does not ‘cause’ the tornado in the sense of providing the energy for the tornado‚ it does ‘cause’
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