Severe weather

Struggling with depression is like trying to find your way through a storm. Although threatening clouds loom overhead, you remain calm and determined. Map and umbrella in hand, you are ready to battle the torrential downpour. The unrelenting tempest makes each step more strenuous than the last. The struggle to simultaneously keep dry while interpreting the map leaves you vulnerable to the chaos. The map slips from your hand and spirals towards the soaked earth. You scramble to salvage it,…

Wind strength of Gothic Cathedrals - Coccia, Simona - Engineering Failure Analysis. Sep 2015, Vol. 55, p1-25. 25p. Abstract: The research investigates the ancient Gothic cathedral and the formulation of its structure regarding the wind resistance. Experiments on the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Amiens,as it is one of the most significant examples of the Gothic Cathedrals, concluded that the skeleton or the design of this cathedral and all the cathedrals, in general, is showing that it was…

people, 13,000 homes, and 46,000 acres of land in the coastal zone at an elevation below 4 feet. If global warming emissions continue to grow, it’s possible that we could see a high emissions scenario, which will be the annual economic impact of more severe hurricanes, residential real estate losses to sea level rise, and growing water and energy cost could reach 1.4 percent GDP by 2025 and 1.9 percent by 2100. A two foot rise in global sea levels is expected by the end of this century along the…

time of year most people dread and are unprepared for; nonetheless, it is the time of year when being home inside warm doors becomes cheerful. Everyone has her own way of making those cold days inside enjoyable, but what better way to enjoy the fall weather with a delicious Bananas Foster dish? The three key elements to preparing a Bananas Foster dish are making the sauce, adding the bananas, and flambéing it. To begin preparing this dish she must have a sauce pan depending on the amount of…

throughout mid-December where there are some type of icy frost on the road and trees. The only thing that seemed too cool off the people here including their temper and attitudes it was the same everyday hot, sticky and stuffy no sign of movement of weather. The clouds just made a big circle around the city as is trying to avoid this place. It was the same everyday wake up in the morning wait for the sun to go down go outside play in the cooling asphalt and then come in for a really spice dinner…

An arctic climate such as northern Scandinavia is characterized by cold and long winters, and short and cool summers. Precipitation is generally in the snow form and annual precipitation for these regions is less than 20 inches. Temperature has a major influence on aquatic life in these regions. Temperature decreases in the winter and as sea ice solidifies, the amount of pore pace within the ice is reduced and the salinity increases. Organisms must be adapted to prevent the growth of ice…

The food wasn’t the only reason I flew out to Puerto Rico. I was there to escape from the cold weather I had back home, the rain, the snow, the darkness, the layers of clothes and wind. I could not wait to enjoy the sun, the beach, the coqui(a frog you are only able to find on the island) the fresh ocean water, the mountains, sand in between my toes and the beautiful palm trees that had coconuts hanging. I sat on my grandmother’s porch the sun was beaming against my face. My cheeks felt like a…

A cold chill hangs in the air during the predawn hours that slowly saunter by as I creep cautiously towards that one towering tree that will be home for that fateful opening day. The frigid textured steel greets my exposed hands with a rough hello as the ascent to my treestand begins. Finally, as my body shudders from lack of warmth the platform is underneath my feet and I begin to layer on camouflage clothing. Without archery hunting or any type of hunting I lack stress relief as I…

American rock climbing has undergone many changes, but the key aspects that have formed out of the popularizing of rock climbing have stayed the same. Lawrence C. Hamilton expresses that rock climbing is “characterized by (1) a motivation or reward structure that encourages the continual creation of new climbs, and (2) a finite and exhaustible medium in which to create them” (Hamilton 1979, 285). Rock climbing has become a new subculture and a lifestyle consisting of its own values, language,…

The post card arrived, from the Siberian Gulag, two days ago. On the front of it was a picture of several men chopping down trees in the snow. The backside read: “Hello from the Gulag! The past week has been an interesting and cold one at this camp. The activities here are rather physically grueling but I don’t mind. In this one game, we chop down trees and carry it to a cart that another group brings to a station for some other game. We also play a game that involves digging holes in the frozen…