Gulf War

Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded at sea, approached Mexico's Pacific coast with such ferocity that one official predicted it would become the most dangerous storm in history. Thousands were evacuated from luxury beach resorts long before the powerful Category 5 storm touched 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…

one of the “largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US” according to (Holden, 2006) until recent natural disasters. Thousands of civilians were affected personally and financially. Hurricane Katrina started in the Gulf of Mexico and moved west to New Orleans. Around August 26-27, 2005. The Mayor at the time Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. ordered an emergency evacuation after getting a call from Max Mayfair stating “This is one of the worst storms that I have ever seen…

between a tropical wave and the Tropical Depression Ten. The cyclone headed generally westward toward Florida and strengthened into a hurricane, only two hours before making landfall at Hallandale Beach and Aventura on August 25. Katrina emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and began to rapidly deepen.…

It all begins in Monterey Bay California, where author Johnathan Steinbeck and a close friend by the name of Ed Ricketts seek out boat and crew for a Marine Science expedition. Fishing out of Monterey bay is no strange occurrence, but Steinbeck’s and Ricketts voyage was quite different from all the other boating operations in the area. They were planning on sailing into the Sea of Cortez between the boarder of Mexico, and Baja California. This territory at the time was still being explored and…

eroded and deposited into the same area. This is usually where the sand originates. Galveston beach is known as a barrier island. Galveston Island is located south of Houston, about 50 miles. Galveston Island split up west Galveston bay and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The natural formation of the island started 5,300 years ago. Located…

taking care of the little fresh water that we have then the water will not continue to support the entire human race. One example of companies not caring enough about the environment was the huge BP oil spill in 2010. Although the spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico, some of the contaminated water traveled into the rivers making the fresh river water not safe to drink.…

Every year numerous catastrophes happens around the globe causing demise and ruination. Disfiguring winds and serious flooding caused people to lose their existence. Hurricane Katrina was one of the coolest hurricane in United States history. It was really misinterpret breakdown of communication between the people and the government after the appearance of Hurricane Katrina. Which produced lack of experience in authorities positive and unnecessary demise that show some expression such as…

Katrina made its second and third landfalls in the Gulf Coast area on August 29, 2005 as a Category three hurricane. A neighborhood TV channel reported New Orleans was encountering broad flooding due to a few levee breaks, the city was without electricity, and there were a few cases of massive damage in the area. In brief timing, whole neighborhoods were engulfed in water. Due the rapid flooding, numerous residents became stranded, long after Hurricane Katrina had passed, and could be seen on…

Audrey developed from a tropical wave that moved across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea during June 1957. The system began deepening over the Gulf of Mexico during on June 24, 1957. On June 25 at 06 GMT, the tropical storm was located at 21.6 Latitude, 93.3 longitude with wind speeds up to 70 mph. On June 25, the storm stopped over the southwestern Gulf and it quickly became a hurricane. The storm was located at 23.9 latitude, 93.7 longitude with wind speeds up to 90 mph. The storm moved…

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