The Storm Essay

Champ barked a welcome to Storm as he walked out onto the porch. He bent down and rubbed the top of the mutt’s head with knuckles of his hand, the way he had seen Pete do it. He had warmed to his dad’s dog. Even if the mutt was liable to run off at a moment’s notice and end up in the dog pound. He wondered how much money Pete had paid to get Champ back every time the dogcatcher found him wandering the streets. Pete gave him a nod as he walked out of the garage. He paused by the old car…

Since April, California has had a harsh season for wildfires. The largest of which have only started in the past month or two. Together, the Thomas fire in Ventura county and the Creek fire in Los Angeles county damaged or destroyed at least 1,547 homes and injured at least 4 firefighters. Richard Halsey uses the Los Angeles Times’ platform to get his opinion of the fires’ source across to California residents. He first points out some of the causes people are pointing to. Next, he looks into…

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! So lets get into it. (Source 3) To begin with, hurricanes and tornados are very destructive. Spencer Adkins a meteorologist says…

As massive as the ocean is, seemingly incomparable in power to any other natural force, it dwindled in authority this evening. At the command of a deep, hearty, quaking thunder, a powerful concussion I felt through my legs milliseconds before the deafening roar commanded the attention of every beach goer in attendance that evening. The puffy white, cumulus clouds that formed giant pillows in the clear, sapphire blue skies, seemed to flee to find shelter, moving out hastily to provide space…

In the article Water is swallowing us up: Catastrophic floods hit houston by Michael Graczyk, he talks about the most powerful Texas hurricane on record. Different counties of texas received an average of 8 to 15 inches. Harvey was the strongest hurricane to strike down Texas since 1961’s Hurricane Carla and a lot of people were killed or injured that’s why we call the flood catastrophic. The last thing I heard about the hurricane was that Harvey has so far killed 70 people who drowned in…

As Cordato states North Carolina's Anti-Gouging Law in 1996: (General Statutes 75-36) (a) It shall be a violation of G.S. 75-1.1 for any person to sell or rent or offer to sell or rent at retail during a state of disaster, in the area for which the state of disaster has been declared, any merchandise or services which are consumed or used as a direct result of an emergency or which are consumed or used to preserve, protect, or sustain life, health, safety, or comfort of persons or their property…

Tornadoes are one of the most feared natural disasters across the United States. They are great gusts of wind that form a funnel and suck up everything in their path leaving almost nothing left standing. They tend to pop out of nowhere with little time to prepare. There are many devastating effects of tornadoes most notable are destruction of property, environmental impact and lost lives. Tornadoes have caused very much destruction of property of the years. They have destroyed over…

In the opening of Kate Chopin 's “The Storm” the author describes the anticipation of a severe storm, defining it as “sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west, accompanied by a sullen roar” (270). However as the storm is brewing, she details the characters emotions as “not afraid,” or “no uneasiness”( 270 Chopin). The subject matter that the author portrays to the reader is that, in the hindrances of traditional marriages, one must find freedom in ways that others…

Women While reading Solar Storms I began to think that this novel would be different from previous novels that I have read. In most novels that take place before the 2000s, women are portrayed in their traditional and stereotypical roles. They are seen as the inferior figure to men and are only meant to serve the men in their lives. Essentially, they are who they are because of the men in their lives and nothing else. They are not worth anything to society besides their ability to give birth…

Sebastian Junger’s book, The Prefect Storm, is a tragic and intense journey of six crew members setting out to go sword fishing and bring back some for profit; however, they get caught and later died in a “perfect storm”, which means two storms colliding and turning into a small hurricane and later evolving into a powerful cyclone. Analyzing The Perfect Storm, Junger filled his book with his input and ideas of what happened to the sailors at the end of their lives, how he believes they acted and…