Dust storm

It all started out unexpectedly. The storm began to get worse, sounds of the storm roared the atmosphere, with rage. Everything felt like a blur. Fog spurred over the plains of the battlefield, it was as if the battlefield was abandoned, because of silence that brought cries to each to each dead soul. I could see the soldiers getting ready, praying for there last. Time was running, fast as an earthquake destroys land within seconds. It was coming to dawn, brave troops waiting to fight for…

My Reflection’s on “Let It Snow” Have you ever had an opinion about the story Let It Snow by David Sedaris? In the next couple of paragraph’s I will be analyzing the story and writing my reflections on some of the issues and ideas that arise in this story. The snowstorm makes a correlation to Sedaris's childhood by showing how hectic it was at times. Like a snowstorm, a family could be just as dysfunctional when the snowstorm hits like a fight it is hectic but once it has died down…

for years... Resentfully I wrapped my still seized palm around the cloudy golden door handle, applying what I thought to be a sufficient force. Fearlessly I entered. Glancing around nervously, I saw somber portraits staring at me behind layers of dust, seemingly penetrating my very being. Cold, hesitant light streams shone through tiny holes from the leaking, rotten floorboards - casting eerie shadows upon the walls - I felt someone's presence. Whirling around, I saw nothing but an empty…

my beloved. As I felt my blood pulsating throughout my body I clasped onto my innocent little girl to young to understand the events where were occurring around her. As I squeezed her fragile body against mine, protecting her from the treacherous storm which was unfolding before our eyes. I began running down the main street without a soul in sight, feeling the gush of wind pressing its forces against me, each step i touch felt like two more back. the harder i pushed through the gale as though…

As I first started reading "Before The Storm" I initially thought this story was going to be cut and dry. It started with two intoxicated people meeting in a bar. I pictured what you could probably see at any of your local bars. The author then began making references to comparing the encounter to a storm. It was then I started to get a poetic and deeper meaning to the story I was reading. The title then seemed very appropriate to me. Comparing a storm to an intoxicated experience can be very…

William M. Gray and their associates at Colorado State University (CSU), Tropical Storm Risk, and the United Kingdom's Met Office. The forecasts include weekly and monthly changes in significant factors that help determine the number of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes within a particular year. As stated by NOAA and CSU, an average Atlantic hurricane season between…

devastating super storm that affected the islands of the Philippines, especially Tacloban city. According to Barmania (2014) the typhoon, that had wind speeds around 150 mph, killed 6200 and displaced 4 million people, leaving the country in despair. Characteristics of typhoon Haiyan and Tacloban City: The characteristics of typhoon Haiyan were very specific and the physical setting of Tacloban city amplified the impact of this super storm. In general, typhoons are tropical storms consisting…

Incredible growth and development was cultivated from a monumental storm event during the summer of 2013. The first 11 days of July 2013 recorded 20 inches of rain. During the following two days, July 12 and 13, an additional eight inches of rain fell but in a very short period of time. This amount of rain within such a short period of time resulted in a flood of unprecedented proportions for the South Carolina Botanical Garden. The devastation that occurred to the plants, animals, and…

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 damage. Hurricane Hugo (1989), took 49 lives and left 100,000 people homeless and it caused 7 billion dollars in damage, its…

when the storm is spinning one way on bottom and the opposite way up towards the atmosphere. Now since Saturn is moving on it’s axis with its own velocity, it then drags with it the storm’s spinning at their own speed as well; which would bring the storms straight to the poles (Kluger 2016). O 'Neil even quoted saying, “ The whole atmosphere is being dragged by its planet as it rotates… so all that air has some ambient angular momentum.” (Chu 2016). Over a great amount of time if these storms…