Severe combined immunodeficiency

This year we, the community service group, wanted to host our second annual powder puff football game. First we had to find a cause to hold the game in honor of. We figured Cystic Fibrosis was the perfect disease to try to inform our community about in a fun and interesting way. We have a student in our school district with this deadly disease and wanted to help her spread awareness. Our first decision to make was where to host this event. We knew from the previous year that hosting the…

Spiral of death! Have you thought about a tornado thrashing at your house with excessive force and hurling chunks of debris at everything? Damaging, Destroying debris that could hurt or even kill you or your loved ones. When the warning comes be equipped after the warning comes and after the siren screeches through the air. It could be worse than ever expected. Tornados are awful spirals of death and more people should be prepare for when these twisters burst into the community. Tornadoes are…

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” an unnamed man and his husky riskily travel through the Yukon area in bitter, cold temperatures with the hope of reaching a camp (and his friends) by the evening. The man faces the consequences of frostbite in the process of traveling in such harsh conditions. He builds a few fires to keep warm, and to battle freezing off his fingers and toes, but soon his own conscience drives him crazy. When it becomes impossible for the man to construct a fire with his…

air with dust, lifted up a meeting house in Newbury, and killed one Indian (“Tornado History”). This was the first time someone has ever described a tornado. Although scientists did not begin to study tornadoes until the mid 1900s (“NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory”). To scientists tornadoes are still mysteries and we have lots to…

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…

There's been many experiences that I have been through that many people may have not gone through. For example, the Moore tornado. Not many people can say they have been a couple blocks away from a two mile wide tornado with winds of 210 miles an hour. It was a scary experience. It was May 20th and meteorologist in Oklahoma City predicted dangerous storms capable of producing large hail and tornadoes were going to move through central Oklahoma. Everyone in the whole city of Moore was…

Tornados and hurricanes are different and alike they can be big and they can be small they can form on land or they can form on water. Hurricanes can be big or small and can range from different sizes of destruction and can be very deadly, You can’t see hurricanes because they are not visible and there is an eye of a hurricane and they are so peaceful inside the eye the hurricane is very destructive. hurricanes can form on water and they can move onto land and become weaker when they…

Violent Winds A ballistic missile of debris and wind speeds through the fields on a hail of destruction. A earthquake can swallow the world, and acid rain can strip nature of its beauty. The high swirling wind in a large rain cloud is a tornado. In order for one to comprehend and get ready for a tornado, it is essential to know how a tornado shapes, where a tornado occurs, and how one can stay before and during a tornado. To begin with, tornadoes can form in places like the Great Plains also…

How Tornadoes are formed BY:Austin Anthony Tornadoes are very destructive and have killed many people. They are formed by these things called supercells, these are moving thunderstorms moving in a circular motion and this is called a cyclone. Tornadoes are big monsters formed by warm moist gulf air combining with cold canadian air. “A violently rotating column of air, pendant from cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud.…

Tornadoes are one of Mother Nature’s most violent of all atmospheric forms. A tornado is a column of vertically spinning air originating from a cumulonimbus cloud that can contact the ground and cause catastrophic damage. The deadliest tornado in U.S. history to date is called the Tri-state Tornado. It occurred in 1925, sweeping through three states for three and a half hours. It killed 689 people and injured 2,000. After many hours of research I have found several interesting facts about…