I went to Sterling Surgical Hospital for an abdominal ultrasound. The Ultrasound Technologist name is Shannon Risher. During the ultrasound I asked Shannon if I could talk to her right after we were done with my ultrasound. Shannon said, “She would be glad to!”…
Sunday, May 22, 2011 started as any other conventional Sunday morning. People waking up early to go worship their God, a few sleeping in, and others on their way to work. Expeditiously all that peace was ripped away from their souls. May 22, 2011 will forever have a hold of the hearts of many Missourians in Joplin. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic EF5 multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in the late afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011.…
I am an Iowa State Cyclone. I always have been and I always will be. Growing up I watched every basketball game, went and watched my cousin play volleyball, and attended plays and musicals in Ames. There was never a doubt in my mind that I wasn't going to attend Iowa State University when I graduated. Guess what?…
Did you know that the average speed of a tornado is 30 miles per hour? Well, the Tri-State Tornado traveled 70 miles per hour. The average distance of a tornado is 100 miles. It killed 695 people, and injured 2027 people. It was the most deadly tornado ever to occur, so many people remember it.…
So if you are looking for something a little different on the Nintendo DS you will certainly find that with Tornado, but unfortunately you will also get a game with some lackluster gameplay and a story mode that makes as much sense as the characters do. Why oh why do the decide to make the characters talk but use silly noises instead of words, I mean it is like the sims who don 't speak English but in this game it is way more annoying than that, anyway read on for more info. Buying This Game Well in this day and age you can buy a game from any number of sources although mostly I tend to make my purchases online bit on occasion I might see something in an exchange shop or in a charity shop, well on this occasion the game purchase was online…
The Tornado I was splashing water inside the Great Wolf Lodge’s indoor water park, my Dad came up to me and told me that my family and I were going to ride the Tornado, a huge tornado looking slide. I tried to beg him to not l make me go on he tugged on me so I started following him to the Tornado. As we walked up the stairs I begged my family not to make me go but they said that I was going to have a lot of fun.…
We're driving to Tenaha to go see my aunt, because my dad hasn't seen her over two years. While we are driving we have the radio on listening to Hot Station 96.3, minutes later I hear the sirens going off through the radio. Afterwards I get a text message from my cousin kimberly saying that a Tornadoe is going to hit Shelby County in a half an hour. I show my parents the message kimberly had sent me, and my dad immediately turned around and drove to my uncles house who was the closes, we tell him what's going on. He lets us in his house so we can tke shelter, we quickly gather wood and nails so we can put them against the windows so when the Tornadoe goes by there won't be so many glass broken inside the house.…
Thud! I closed the tailgate of my dad’s truck. I turned around with my bow in hand. The quiver that is attached to the bow has three new arrows in it. I grabbed the middle arrow and knock it for my walk out.…
On May 20th I went through the scariest event of my life. Moore got devastated by a F5 tornado and I was all alone at my boyfriend’s mom’s house where I was staying for my visit. I first hid in the closet after getting a phone call from my boyfriend’s sister to seek shelter and that the bathroom was not good since it had a window. I gutted a closet in seconds to where it was only me in the closet so nothing would harm me. I got 2 more calls, and on the last call my boyfriend’s sister again frantically telling me to get underground and that news reports are saying the tornado is now an F5, and people will die if they are caught in it above ground.…
Stepping out of my truck, I pound my right foot on the shaking, sandy, dusty, ground. I take a positive look on the main thing that made me drive over here in the first place, the blasting, whistling tornado. The tornado was exceptionally tall, and thick, reminding me of a nuclear mushroom cloud. The tornado literally reached up into the stormy clouds.…
Liberation and rebirth, this is something that in most everyone’s lives will experience. There is usually a time that demands one to stand up for what they stand for or to find their roots. This is no different in the women in the stories The Storm and The Story of an Hour. In both cases there was a moment that the women grabbed a hold of their live and made a change. In The Storm, Calixta changed from being a devoted house wife to a have a love affair.…
Matthew sands Mrs. Seipker Eng 7F 7 February 2018 Twin tornadoes Did you know tornadoes are most likely to occur in the spring and summer time? Some tornadoes are more powerful than others. Tornadoes are formed in a very unusual way, and they can be very dangerous; however, the right precautions make it easy to survive.…
Tornadoes strike in many shapes, sizes, and most importantly, strengths. Sixty-nine percent of all tornadoes are weak; these tornadoes have a short lifespan of less than 20 minutes, wind speeds of less than 110 miles per hour (mph), and account for less than five percent of all tornado deaths. Approximately, twenty-nine percent of all tornadoes are strong; these tornadoes tend to last over 20 minutes, have wind speeds of 110-205 mph and account for 30% of all tornado deaths. The worst tornadoes are classified as violent, and although only two percent of tornadoes are classified this way they account for seventy percent of all tornado deaths since they have wind speeds of over 200 mph and lifespans of over an hour (Tornadoes….Nature ’s Most Violent…
Hurricanes and tornadoes have very noticeable differences, but there are also some similar features when it comes to them both. Some of the characteristics are precipitation, the emotional and physical hardships that ensue when these weather phenomenon happen, and the financial hardship the nation go through because of hurricanes and tornadoes. There are different details that you don 't get from the weather station and the news. Also, showing the devastation that both cause, and how they are both categorized .The facts are what I and people who have lived through the two should know, and some that people should be aware of.…
Joplin Tornado Tornados can be one of the most damaging weather disasters aside from hurricanes. These spinning funnels of air become more deadly with the length of their path and the amount of debris that they pick up. Each year tornados create a path of destruction throughout the United States.…