Severe weather

Electric Cooperatives: Going Beyond the Wires One day in July, a girl named Alexis and her dad were reading a story before bedtime as the lights start flickering. “Daddy, why are the lights doing that?” she said terrified holding onto her dad’s arm. “Don’t worry sweetheart, that happens a lot because of the electric company. I am calling a new company tomorrow to get it fixed.” He walks out of the room after giving his…

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…

What would you do if you were in a tragic situation? If You read “Lost in death valley” and “The evil swirling darkness” you could see what it's like to be in a tragic situation.Both “Lost in death valley” and “Evil swirling darkness” have many similarities and differences for example there setting is different and they are both told in 3rd person perspective. Both stories are told in 3rd person perspective. In ”Lost in death valley” One similarity is, that it is told in 3rd person…

Many people would agree that tornadoes and hurricanes can be, both dangerous and frightening. They can happen at almost any time and cause severe damage and injury. These storms can have minutes’ worth of notice or even sometimes days. We call these storms, natural disasters. While, tornadoe and hurricanes are very similar because of their high winds and ability to do extreme damage, they are tremendously different. Tornadoes can happen almost anywhere; as a matter of a fact, tornadoes have…

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…

organized thunderstorm that has a very strong updraft (4). These tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms with equal updrafts and downdrafts (7). Supercell's form in an environment with low atmospheric moisture (10). A rotation helps produce sever weather changes (4). Supercell tornadoes are usually the most dangerous type of tornado (7). Isolation allows them to have more energy and moisture (6). Usually supercell's don't produce that much precipitation (10). Supercell storms usually isolate…

The articles "The Evil Swinging Darkness" and "The Storm Chasers First-Hand Account of the Joplin Tornado" is about how a deadly tornado struck the town of Joplin. Multiple tornado sirens sounded at different times showing that this was no little tornado this was the mother tornado. Thousands of people rush to the nearest shelter where very few made it. That day more than 1000 people were injured as well as leaving 158 dead. This tornado was extremely deadly but even those who survived were in…

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…