Treaster, Joseph. (2007). Hurricane force: Tracking America’s killer storms. New York, NY: Kingsfisher. The author shares his personal accounts of hurricane Katrina. The storm starts off the coast of North Africa.…
In September 1938, one America’s most deadly hurricanes raced through New England. There were a couple of conditions that made the Hurricane of ‘38 so severe. Like the weather of the New England, and the 20ft storm surge. These conditions made the hurricane much more damaging. Some of the damage sustained from the hurricane would include “entire communities wiped off the face of the Earth.”…
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!”…
Right from the start, our two essays approach their own topics in their own unique ways, using their own unique terminologies, and describing their individual weather event in drastically different tones. The first essay, What They Don’t Tell You About Hurricanes, starts off by declaring the uncertainty of a hurricane. The essay elaborates on the aftermath of a previous maelstrom that maliciously tore through the coast, initiating deadly lightning fires and horrendous floods. The monotonous way one prepares for such a storm is described almost in a detached, robotic way as if the ones preparing do not want to show any emotion because they know that if they do, all that will emerge is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of the known, and an incredible…
Hurricanes are large, swirling storms. They produce winds of up to 74 mph or higher. They usually form over warm oceans. According to the NASA website, “When a hurricane reaches land, it pushes a wall of ocean water ashore. This wall of water is called a storm surge.”…
Hurricanes and Tornados Umm, where did my house go? Hurricanes can be very dangerous, and so can tornadoes. There are three categories they are the are cost and damage, size and characteristics, also how the tornados and hurricanes are formed. These three categories are very dangerous. Did you know that tornados have a wind of 300 miles an hour!…
Once a tropical disturbance starts to whip into shape and gain wind speed up to twenty-five and thirty-eight miles per hour, the tropical disturbance becomes known as a tropical depression( "Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones..."). After wind speeds have reached thirty-nine miles per hour, the tropical depression is upgraded to a tropical storm( "Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones..."). Finally, the tropical storm becomes a hurricane after its wind speeds have exceeded seventy-four miles per hour( "Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones..."). To sum up, hurricanes, without a doubt, are…
As the primary union between land and sea based commerce, ports are susceptible to virtually every natural disasters known to man. Earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis and nor’easters all present challenges to port operations that are not easily overcome. The primary threat posed by severe weather is its unpredictability. Although some weather events, such as hurricanes, are predictable and afford time to implement contingency plans, thus mitigating their effects, others, such as tornados as less predictable and can strike at a moment ’s notice.…
Hurricanes Hurricanes are monstrous, large, swirling storms, with huge and strong winds. They are one of nature’s most deadly beauties, which that can blow up to 252 km pr hour(157 mph or more) which is similar to the speed of some high-speed trains. The storms form over warm ocean waters while also able to strike land. When the hurricane reaches land, it will push a wall of water ashore. That water is called a storm surge, and along with the rain, the hurricane can also cause some deadly floods.…
Hurricane Matthew, one of history’s most fatal, destructive storms, formed on September 28, 2016. It first appeared near the Windward Islands propelling through the Caribbean to the Southeast of the United States. Once Hurricane Matthew reached the Caribbean it was identified as a hurricane and briskly grew to a category five hurricane a few days later. This hurricane was responsible for many deaths around the world.…
Eighty five hurricanes don the earth each year according to NASA. Some out at sea, some just minor storms, but it’s the devastating ones that rake the lands, destroying everything in its path are the ones you have to worry about. Hurricane Katrina took the western world by storm in August of 2005. Category five (the highest) with the highest wind speeds of 280km/h, the storm killed over eighteen hundred people. It was devastating to all areas affected by the hurricane, some more than others.…
Hurricane Katrina Storms, they are one of many natural disasters that occur on our earth. Going deeper we see one of the storms known as" Hurricanes ". These are a much more intense and violent version of a storm. Hurricanes occur rarely but when they do occur it is devastating. The more commonly know storms like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Patrica are some of the more deadly and crazy known storms.…
They both on a scale from 1 to 5, 1 being the least destructive and 5 being the most destructive and the most dangerous. For tornadoes it is a “Fujita Scale,(Illustration 2)” and hurricanes, it is “The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.(Illustration 1)” Below are two tables that show the differences between the two scales and the different categories. They show the damage they cause and the wind speeds that they have when they hit a certain point on the scales. The two scales are almost very similar to each other and they both seem to cause the same type of damage the higher up they go, the wind speeds are a little different but they look to cause the same…
Hurricanes and tornadoes are two storms that can cause an enormous destruction in towns. This storms are similar to each other, but have different factor on the way they form, how long they last, how strong the winds are, when do they occur, and what are the warning sings. First of all, tropical cyclones are known by different names depending where in the world it occurs, for example, in North and Central America on the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean the storms are called hurricanes. Before it becomes a hurricane it has to pass through three stages. It starts out as a tropical disturbance because according to Wall and MSFC “hurricanes form over warm ocean water” and rain clouds start to form.…
Tropical Cyclones Cameron Pillay Figure 1.1 Tropical cyclones. One of the wonders of nature that reassures us that god is watching our behavior. Jokes aside, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones or even willie willies, whatever you prefer, are a massive danger to our society. The harsh winds and floods result in many deaths and major destruction to infrastructure along coastal regions(L. Dilley, J. Earle, K. Euston-Brown, G. Keats, A.Nxele, G. Ravenscroft, 2013). So how can we prepare ourselves?…