Hurricane Andrew

On February 19th, 2015 cyclone Lam had finally made landfall between Millingimbi and Elcho island in the northern territory as a category 4 cyclone. Cyclone lam had started off as a monsoon trough on February 12th over the Coral sea and moved over the Cape York peninsula and moved to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Due to warm waters and favourable outflow the monsoon trough became a category 1 cyclone on the 16th of February and was named cyclone Lam by the Bureau of Meteorology. Cyclone Lam started…

Norman Jewison’s story of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter gives us his take on the corrupt society during the time of The Black Civil Rights Movement. The overarching theme of this film is imprisonment, this can be broken down into the two main ideas willpower and internal conflict. Throughout the film the many pieces of dialogue, camera shots, and repeated shots or sequences are used to reinforce the overarching theme, imprisonment. These are shown in the “Hole Scene” where Rubin Carter is locked…

Hurricanes can affect so many lives, homes, town, and even whole cities. They have been known to destroy . The word hurricanes means a storm with violent wind / a tropical cycle. Hurricanes are deadly to many people. Hurricanes are huge storms that can have winds up to 200 miles per hour. Hurricanes usually last for up to a week, in fact the longest hurricane lasted 28 days (Hurricane San Ciriaco). Hurricanes rotate different ways due to where they are located. In the north they rotate…

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst hurricanes in the history of the United States. The hurricane is stilled ranked the third of all hurricanes. Katrina killed at least 1,245 people. Katrina has been the deadliest hurricane since 1928, Okeechobee hurricane. Katrina done about 108 billion damage, 4* more damage than hurricane Andrew, in 1992 in the United States. Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23 from the interaction between a tropical wave and the Tropical Depression Ten. The…

Hurricanes Did you know hurricanes have an eye? Well, it's not like our human type of eye, the eye of a hurricane is the most calmest part of it, unlike the outside part of a hurricane. A hurricane is a violent storm that happens mostly in warm areas, like near the equator according to “www.kids.nationalgeographic.com”. A hurricane is extremely harmful and can cause much damage like hurricane Katrina in 2005. Speaking of hurricane Katrina, do you know how hurricanes get their name? Hurricanes…

The land effects of Hurricane Katrina came in many ways, this especially to living conditions for the people left behind. One must understand that the damages caused by a hurricane do not stop after the hurricane deteriorates. The aftermath of a hurricane creates many changes to the land, these alterations, for many circumstances create an everlasting distress to that soil. Close to 90…

Hurricanes are powerful forces of nature that can destroy houses, towns and if powerful enough, multiple cities. Recent hurricanes like Hugo, Katrina and Andrew, are powerful and do leave a mark, but a forgotten hurricane of 1938 still shocks many of the people who survived the living nightmare. Weather, human error, and impact is what made that hurricane so powerful. 682 people died during that storm, and that could’ve been avoided, but how? Weather is also a key factor, considering the…

Critique In the article Interstate Partnerships in Emergency Management: Emergency Management Assistance Compact in Response to Catastrophic Disasters, Kapucu et al. (2009) discusses the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. This study focused on a need to address efforts for emergency management at the state level. Throughout the study, certain themes emerged from the data which support the idea that EMAC networks were not adequately…

Introduction The Impacts and effects that Hurricane Katrina had on the United States and how it impacted America socially, economically and politically during this time period it happened until now. Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly category 5 hurricane that cause catastrophic damage along the gulf coast from central Florida to Texas. Much due to the storm surge and levee failure. In addition, severe property damage occurred in coastal areas such as Mississippi beachfront…

daunting clouds as Hurricane Katrina ransacks the vibrant southern coast of the United States. States including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and many more surrounding were then thrown into a war against nature. On August 29, 2005, $118 million cubic yards were destroyed and over $110 billion dollars in damage were left in Katrina’s path of destruction. On that day, 1,836 lives were taken and millions more were ruined (Amadeo 1). Ten years later after the devastating hurricane seemed…