Wind Energy Essay

While in the Trading Post Thomas said, “I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight. Also, your mother was just here crying” (182). This quote appears as if it is just cute humor of the men’s shared heritage. However, it is also an indication that Thomas received a prophetic story. Here Alexie uses specific sentence structures and wording to provide a certain mystical image of how the wind, birds, and sunlight told Thomas of Victor’s father’s death. The statement…

Hurricane Patricia hit land on Oct. 23. It set records for being the strongest hurricane ever based on the barometric pressure (879 millibars), the speed it changed from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane (24 hours), and the faster sustainable winds (200 mph). Hurricane Patricia starting forming in the Pacific, but didn’t hit anybody’s radar until it started to form a tropical storm in the Gulf of Tehuantepec which is in the Pacific Ocean west of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The storm…

harmlessly in the sea”(Hurricane-Facts.com). Hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. In a category 1 hurricane, there is 74-95 mph wind speeds. Minimal damage, no major damage to properly built structures. Damage to unanchored shrubs and trees and evacuations maybe ordered for areas immediately adjacent to water. A category 2 hurricane has 96-110 mph wind speeds. Moderate damage with some roof, door and window damage to buildings. Considerable damage to shrubs and trees with…

it was, the damage it caused and how it impacted the land and people lives. The Hurricane of 1938 was very powerful in many different ways. 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…

They had to find a method to lower the survivors to a lower level. The winds were blowing to fast for the rescue crew to launch their ropes to the top. The winds would blow the ropes away from the tankers. On one of the tankers the survivors had no choice but to jump into the freezing waters. Then the rescue team would quickly grab the men, so they wouldn't float away…

Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic. Its population is approximately 3,680,772 people. It has many geologic features such as mountains, oceans, forests, caves, farms and plantations that produce popular crops such as tobacco, sugar canes and coffee. Many of these features have been approaching the beauty of the island and making it more unique than other places. These astonishing features help Puerto…

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. Most tropical…

make sure you know whether your house will sustain high wind volume, install shutters and put up plywood especially on all windows, reinforce garage doors to be able to handle high winds, make sure trees are taken care of as well, like making sure all dead wood is trimmed, weak branches are cut, and weeds are gone. Be sure to check that landscaping is using other materials…

It is pouring rain and you are numb cold. Your face is grim. Thunder and lightning crack across the sky. Your hear a sound, louder than the thunder. A cannon flies through the air and with a thunderous sound, crashes down on the mud and dirt before you. You are safe, the walls of the earthworks you had helped build earlier are still holding together. You see another cannon fly through the air towards you, but the effect is no different. The walls are sturdy, they can be torn down by the cannons,…

The morning brings the sun, big and bright, lighting the horizon with brilliant shades of pink and purple. The rain is done, but the ground is muddier than it had been the day before. The trees are still dripping water down from their leaves. Pip steps outside into the beautiful morning. She inhales the scent of the forest. It is a nice mix of after rain and morning dew. It brightens her spirits considerably. She is still full of the determination to make a difference she had felt the night…