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    On Saturday April 1, at 5:51 am, two unknown creature’s said to be from planet Blobia were found in Abby Heitman’s Donut Shop in New York City, New York. Abby had gotten up early the morning of April 1 to go make donuts for her store in New York City. When she unlocked the door and went into the kitchen, she saw two fat and slimy blobs lying on the floor covered in donut frosting. They had apparently eaten all of the supplies needed to make the donuts. After Abby had screamed from seeing…

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    Hurricanes are a type of disaster that is frequently mentioned in data center disaster recovery (DR) planning . Many individuals are accomplished about tropical storms and the impacts they can have on your server farm. In the meantime, there are unlimited extends of North America that have never encountered a sea tempest and likely never will. So some people think of them as local concerns, restricted to the Caribbean, and the Gulf and East Coast states. In any case, it is vital to be arranged…

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    The high wind speed of 114.95 mph (185 km/h) which categorized the storm at Category 3. The air pressure was 943 mbar at the lowest and Mayport (Bay Pilots Dock) in Florida on October 26th the air pressure was 1003.2 mbar which is the highest air pressure that was…

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    “Tornadoes and God” I personally do not agree with Piper’s claim that fierce tornadoes are the fingers of God. Also, I do not believe that God directly determined the tornado to kill all who died in the natural disaster, including babies and children. The Bible states that Jesus holds all of nature together. Yes, I believe that God can prevent natural disasters. On the other hand, I still believe that sometimes God shows us He causes natural disasters as a judgment against sin. I do not…

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    Memory Storm Imagine driving down a road, late at night, and not being able to see lines on the road. Looking out the window and seeing nothing but a white sheet. Feeling helpless as to where you are or where the road even is. Driving down the interstate during a blizzard helped me understand everything doesn’t always turn out the way you want it to. To give some background, Hailey Hershey, my best friend for as long as I can remember, had just moved; my friend Amber and I thought it would be…

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    comparisons as well as personifying ‘a cold November wind’ in an interesting way. The dictionary defines personification as “the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure” (Dictionary.com). In this particular instance, the wind is a blockade for Lutie, the main character, in her goals at the very beginning of the novel. On top of being a blockade for Lutie, the November winds are foreshadowing a lot of the…

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    caused in many ways. The definition of a hurricane is “a large tropical storm system with high powered circular winds.” Before a hurricane occurs many things must occur in order for it to grow in size. Hurricanes start to grow near the equator over warm water and then the wind starts to pick up in…

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    The Signal Corps Report

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    The corps were accustomed to controversy since the Congress designated them the mother agency for the nation's first weather service. -in 1881, police arrested Captain Henry W. Howgate, chief financial manager of the Signal Corps, for embezzling nearly a quarter million dollars. Many complaints came up about the Signal Corps, even from within it. Some veteran military officers, among them Major H. H. C. Dunwoody, opposed a push by General Hazan to conduct primary research into the causes and…

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    Isaac Monroe Cline was the American who thought he had the power to control the weather. Cline was the man in charge of the Texas Section of the new United States Weather Bureau in September of the year 1900. At this time, a hurricane ignored by Cline, swallowed the city of Galveston, Texas, leaving thousands dead. It can be argued that Cline was to blame for being so arrogant in not recognizing the inconsistent weather signs and acknowledging there was an unpreventable storm headed towards the…

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    “Crow Hill” The line from this poem of “When it is not wind it is rain” reminded me of every day in Florida. The weather here is so bipolar. One second it can be a sky full of direct sunshine and then the next second it is pouring down rain with a heavy overcast and booming thunder. Most of the time I am inside when this happens but a few times I have been caught outside. Once when this happened recently, my whole family and I were at Poe Springs for my seventeenth birthday on a Sunday in…

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