Prevailing winds

ever seen a powerful wind storm that destroyed houses, uprooted, and totaled cars? What are these mysterious, naturally occurring wind storms? Nobody truly knows how long these mysterious wind storms have been around. They do know this; that they are naturally occurring. These mysterious wind storms are called tornadoes. Tornadoes are very destructive and can cause people to be homeless. What are tornadoes? A tornado is a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the…

The long days and nights riding to Bree started molding into each other so I didn’t have the best idea about how long it has been. I looked up at the stormy night sky dark with clouds filled with rain and thunder that blocked out the light from the stars and the moon. Lightning could be seen in the distance zapping at the ground. I made my horse go faster so we could get to Bree sooner. It was about twenty miles away from where we were. After a loud clap of thunder shook the ground, rain started…

Hurricane sandy was one of a natural disaster. It was the most destructive other than Katrina. Many meteorologist say that this was an unpredicted storm, which caused more damage. Sandy killed 285 people in total and 125 in the united states. But that is not as much as how many people katrina killed/injured. Some people were out of power for days and couldn’t get any resources like food and water because of Sandy. What happened first was a wave in the caribbean turned into a tropical storm…

Maybe my parents just wanted to get rid of me for a week, but I created some of my best memories at Camp Edwards. The camp itself is a paradise for kids of almost any age. Across the seemingly endless campground, there are tons of exciting activities that campers can participate in, such as sailing and archery. Camp Edwards sits right beside a huge lake, making the entire camp feel separate from the rest of the world, a utopia of sorts. Across the vast water to the right sat a lonely island that…

(giving a non-living thing qualities of a living thing/existence of a perfect living representation of something) in the interest of beginning and building on a relationship between the setting and Lutie Johnson. At the end of the third paragraph, the wind is…

already starting to whine at excitement of the land in front of us. It was a cold day, low 20s and wind gusts of 30 mph. Small snowflakes flew through the sky. The ground was covered with a thin fresh layer of snow. I looked at the time, it was 8:55 “close enough” (pheasant hunting doesn't open until 9 in the morning). I opened my truck door and stepped out. I was immediately got hit by the frigid cold wind that seemed like the gusts went right through my jacket. I tiled my truck seat forward…

mount and he knew the trail, and he knew it was time to go. “ Something's wrong with you ” I said weary. My heart was now pounding. The wind was howling gently at first and soon after it sounded as if there was a pack of dying wolves behind us. I looked back but no sign of life. Bogi started to whinney with fear. There was no sign of home either, and the wind brought…

With the winds and waves of the category five hurricane, it will charge through the town, and cause maximum destruction, and take the lives of many. Hurricane Rita will not only just cause maximum damage, but also a complete clearing of Galveston, with the great…

There are always warning signs when change is coming, but there’s never a way to stop the change. Adrienne Rich explores this idea of knowledge without power in her poem, “Storm Warnings” as the narrator prepares herself and her home to withstand a storm. As I read this poem, I recognized the narrator’s sense of powerlessness but determination to press on in the face of adversity as something I have seen in the eyes of New Orleanians since August 29th, 2005. Our city was destroyed by Hurricane…

At Red Scaffold my cousins Gabriel, Josh, Tristan and I ride bikes. Gabriel and I wrap ropes on our back tires to create traction like chains on the rear tires. Consequently, I think the ropes work well on ice and snow, you don’t slide around on the slippery ice and can move well in the snow. My cousin Gabriel and I go through mountainous snow drifts and the ropes help enormously, so we don’t spin out. Last year we wrecked a lot while riding our bikes because the ice was like glass, causing us…