Cyclone

shelter in the underground cellar used for preserving wine. When suddenly a dead silence prevailed in, she got out to experience the eye of the storm, the still centre of the storm where one experiences the calmest of calm. Though she could see the cyclone spinning and boiling at a distance, she was safe inside its eye. It was in this eye that her “myth of womanhood had been exploded” (White 424). Everything around her had been destroyed, everything seemed to be getting dissolved in that…

everything in their paths are as follows; Hurricane Camille (1969), it took the lives of 259 lives and caused 1.42 billion dollars in damage, with wind speeds of 190 MPH. Hurricane Allen (1980), its winds matching the speeds of Camille, causing many cyclones to form causing 300 million dollars in damage and 249 casualties. Hurricane Gilbert (1988), measuring the largest storm by diameter it had wind speeds of 185 MPH, it took the lives of 340 people and caused a whopping 5 billion dollars in…

the atmosphere is primed for instability, which can come in the form of thunderstorms, gusty conditions, and downpours. But have you ever wondered what makes a hurricane, well, a hurricane? You 're about to find out. A hurricane is essentially a cyclone that forms when there 's a lot of moisture. In fact, it 's this moisture, which emanates from the ocean, that gives hurricane their one-two punch in the form of heavy wind and precipitation. But for these tropical storms to be classified as…

Living on the gulf coast in the United states means that one faces the threat of the damaging effects of a massive hurricane. This was no different for the people of Galveston, Texas in the beginning of the 20th century. Galveston is situated in the southeastern part of Texas and sits on what is called a barrier island. Barrier Island formation is strongly influenced by four main factors: a low seabed gradient, shallow water depth, abundant existing sediment supply, and a moderate-to-strong…

Hurricane Harvey took place on the 25th of August and ended on the 2nd of September 2017. Harvey reached up to category 4 and was the first major hurricane to occur in Texas and the rest of the United States since hurricane Wilma hit Texas in 2005, therefore hurricane Harvey ended a record 12-year drought in Texas. Hurricane Harvey didn’t just destroy the land in Texas, but the people within, their homes and businesses. According to Wikipedia (2017): Harvey has caused over $70 billion worth of…

La Nina is a climatic pattern that distinguishes the cooling of sea surface temperature along the tropical coast of South America. La-Nina is described as the opposite to El-Niño which distinguished by warm sea surface temperature in the equatorial region of the Pacific ocean. The Southern Oscillation (SO) is a change in air pressure between the western and central tropical Pacific. The pressure variability changes the strength of the trade winds, that results in affecting the surface ocean…

were involved, but most of us knew that communism had to be stopped. Charlie Wilson's War movie portrayed the events during the 1980's and how a Texas congressman succeeded to defeat the soviets. Charlie Wilson's War, otherwise known as Operation Cyclone, is a movie telling the incredible story of secret CIA operation that changed history. In 1979, the Soviet Union started a war that devastated the people as well as the land of Afghanistan. During the war, the United States would not oppose…

Aircrafts for Hurricane Observation and Hurricane Hunters One significant advancement towards studying hurricanes was the use of aircrafts. Post World War I, the use of aircrafts boomed and meteorologists found a use for them- to study hurricanes. The first recorded intentional flight into the eye of a hurricane was completed by Colonel Joseph Duckworth on July 27, 1943. During that day, he made two flights from Galveston, Texas. From that day on, he began one of the US Air Force’s largest,…

The National Guard plays many roles in keeping our country safe from protecting the United States to assisting in helping civilians during natural disasters. The National Guard has played quite an enormous role in the past when Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina hit the coast of the United States of America. Hurricane Katrina had arrived on August 23, 2005 and disappeared on August 31, 2005. Hurricane Sandy came into effect October 22, 2012 and the storm died out on October 31, 2012. The storms…

The Color of Katrina Introduction On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit Southeast Louisiana causing one of the worst disasters the United States had seen in decades (Weik von Mossner, 2011, p. 146). The combination of a category 3 storm, a city below sea level, and several broken concrete levees resulted in a devastated community. Though the physical damage done by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding was detrimental to all, some members of the community received a bigger blow than…