This year will be a first for the Coastal Hurricanes baseball program, according to head coach Jason Rockwell. “We have never played in a post-season game before,” said Rockwell. This year it becomes a reality as the Hurricanes will travel to Charleston, South Carolina to play in the South Carolina Homeschool Tournament. Four teams are in the tournament, Charleston, Columbia, Coastal and Upstate Eagles from Spartanburg.…
( Video). The weather that the North East was having, made a big difference on the hurricane. The North East had just had a hot, rainy summer,the moon was full and, it was high tide which made for perfect conditions to form a massive, deadly hurricane also called an “extratropical cyclone.” ( Retrospect newspaper article ) Because there was warm,…
March 26, 2018 To: Ellen Cohen, Mayor Pro-Tem of Houston City Council From: Janet Asante, Chief Environmental Science officer for the Houston Health Department Re: Urban Houston Communities Suffering from Pollution after Hurricane Harvey Background and History: Hurricane Harvey is the first hurricane to hit the Texas coast since Ike in 2008 and the first major hurricane to hit Texas since Brett in 1999. Houston, which was founded on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou in 1836 and rises barely above sea level, has long been susceptible to flooding. 4All of this rainfall caused catastrophic drainage issues and made rivers rise greatly.2 Houston is essentially two cities right now: the part that was open for business two weeks after the storm and…
As hurricane Harvey hit the city flooded with water and the internet flooded with fake information. The Houston airport was underwater leaving planes to float atop the flood, a shark swimming in the fast lane of highway I-10, and Obama passing out meals and blankets to the evacuees. These are all hoaxes that went viral during a natural disaster hurricane Harvey. During emergencies people will result to looking at facebook or twitter to try and update themselves with the current happenings of the affected area, so when a catchy photo is released people latch on to erroneous reports to fit their assumptions about the situation. What is the best defense?…
A hurricane can be deadly, even if it's a category one, but what if it's a category five? A lot of people will not take a chance to not be prepared for a hurricane. How can a person be best prepared for a category five hurricane? A person might be best able to be prepared for a category five hurricane by having food, supplies,and strong shutters or plywood put up on your house. Those three things are very important because you need food to eat, supplies to use, and shutters/ plywood to protect your house from anything outside.…
John was trapped in his house during Hurricane Mathew so I ran to everyone homes to make sure they were ok streets started flooding wind start blowing hard rain just got worse so the wind start knocking down trees light poles and the streets just started flooding more. So the hard wind knocks down one more tree so the tree fell in john house it fell straight on john house so john got stuck and started screaming for help loud as he could so I heard john and ran fast as I could to help me but the tree was big and I needed help finally when I walked outside I seen a fire truck…
Source 2 states that the hurricane started by the coast of Africa and by the time it reached the U.S it had winds of over 155 miles per hour and was over 500 miles wide. Source 1 mentions the powerful hurricane caused waves from 30 to 50 feet to hit the coastline of north east America. The hurricane was already huge and powerful but it had one more element the weapon of surprise. No one knew this massive hurricane was coming towards them.…
There major reason as to why New Orleans was so vulnerable to a Category 5 Hurricane is because the city is 7 feet below sea level. It creates a perfect area for the sea water to rush in and but it’s not so easy for that water to leave. The U.S. Gulf Coast on the other hand was vulnerable due to the warm water that surrounds it. Warm water allows for hurricanes to maintain themselves and travel in towards the coast. Hurricanes are a natural disaster, and have been happening for centuries and will continue to happen.…
Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded at sea, approached Mexico's Pacific coast with such ferocity that one official predicted it would become the most dangerous storm in history. Thousands were evacuated from luxury beach resorts long before the powerful Category 5 storm touched down Friday evening near Cuixmala in southwestern Mexico. Its 165-mph winds uprooted trees and dropped power lines. The hurricane center's final advisory on what had been described as a possible catastrophic storm came hours after Patricia had been downgraded to a tropical depression(A tropical depression forms when a low pressure area is accompanied by thunderstorms that produce a circular wind flow with maximum sustained winds below 39 mph.…
During the course of life, every person will experience many events, but there are a select few of those events that transcend the others. Those events can fall into one of two categories, either traumatic or joyous occasions, but none the less memorable. Of those extraordinary events, there are only one or two that every small and seemingly useless detail can be remembered for. In the course of my short life, I have been able to experience two such events, but, unfortunately, both have been negative situations. While I have never visited New York City, I, like many American’s remember where they were on September 11th, 2001, but unlike most outside of the Gulf Coast area, I remember where I was when Hurricane Ivan made landfall.…
During this week’s readings, you will learn about human response to hazards, disasters, emergencies, or catastrophes. For this assignment, discuss how you think you would respond to a hurricane, a terrorist incident, and a home fire. How are your natural responses similar or different from the guidelines provided in the text? Why do you think these similarities and differences occur?…
Despite the urge and pleas for citizens to move to inland shelters, many ignored and chose not to leave their homes. The storm crashed into the peninsula on October 4th, rendering thousands of people helpless and stranded without reach of the shelters. As to date, the number of dead is around 900 with the number rising amidst the clean up efforts. A country with deep economic suppression, Haiti ranks 163 of 186 countries, according to the 2016 United Nations Human Development Index. The staggering number come in part due to the recent natural disasters which has left the impoverished region without power or even forest for wood.…
Hurricanes are not uncommon among the coastal regions. Atmospheric and sea-surface conditions were conducted to cyclone’s rapid transformation and resulted in what is known as Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was tearing apart the Gulf of Mexico. It was a Category 5 hurricane and was predicted to create several landfalls within the affected area. The wind was moving in a pattern causing a storm surge toward the city like a high tide.…
Hurricane Andrew (2002) caused so much destruction in Southern Florida, its maximum wind speeds measured at 175 MPH; The death toll was about 65 people and it left 150,000 to 250,000 people homeless and cause 26 billion dollars in damage. Hurricane Ivan (2004), another large hurricane in diameter, spawning hundreds of tornadoes in Texas and caused major damage to Louisiana and islands on the Gulf of Mexico,…
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.…