Dust storm

greatly diminished due to the unrelenting rain; I knew something had to be wrong. Not two minutes later, I received an alert on my phone saying that there was a tornado warning in the area. I decided to pull off of the highway and wait out the intense storm. I stopped at a gas station…

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…

damaging and deadliest storms that has hit the Great Lakes.The White Hurricane was a blizzard with hurricane force winds. The Great Lakes helped to fuel the storm because the lakes were warm. The hurricane started forming November 1, 1913, then settled down on November 11, 1913. It is known as the deadliest storm in the history of the Great Lakes. There was up to 90 mph wind and waves up to two stories high. It killed 230 people and destroyed and stranded many ships. After the storm was…

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…

will be stuck inside for both of the storms. Both blizzards and hurricanes are a type of storm but they have some things that are different from each other. There are some differences in these two storms, but there are also some similarities. Both storms can be devastatingly powerful but blizzards can the more windy of the two. They are very windy and they are made of snow but they can destroy small buildings. Sometimes depending on how powerful the storms are they can knock over mailboxes and…

Dangerous weather has definitely been an issue for Alabama, as it is many years. You always think of how it will affect your home or cars. Is your roof going to leak? Will your gutters handle all that rain? Is the hail going to dent your car? What you don’t think about it how it is affecting a part of your home that is mostly hidden to you: your foundation. WET WEATHER MEANS EXPANDING SOIL Too much rain is a big deal for your home’s foundation. Whether a slab or a crawlspace, when water builds…

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…

not touch land within the next couple of days. Florida has experienced quite a few hurricanes. It is hard to say when Irma actually started to form, but it has not slowed down that is for sure. The term “tropical storm” is used in the beginning stages of damage potential and as the storm progresses, that is when the term “hurricane” is used. Hurricane categories rate on a scale from one, having the weakest damage potential, through…

dispersing information about the storm. As with any disaster, power outages disrupted communication systems and the way residents obtained their information. The results showed that residents relied on television, radios, and the internet for reliable information. Based on the results of the survey, the author determined that power outages rendered the web, cellphones, and social media less effective. However, the lack of data from other areas heavily impacted by the storm, in particular New…

In September 1938, one America’s most deadly hurricanes raced through New England. There were a couple of conditions that made the Hurricane of ‘38 so severe.Like the weather of the New England, and the 20ft storm surge. These conditions made the hurricane much more damaging. Some of the damage sustained from the hurricane would include “entire communities wiped off the face of the Earth.”( Video). The weather that the North East was having, made a big difference on the hurricane. The…