Storm drain

referred to as water-spouts; a waterspout is just a weak tornado that forms over water. In some cases these water-spouts move into land and become dangerous and maybe even deadly. This molecular structure is known to be one of the most deadliest of storms. Most tornadoes are formed from thunderstorms. For a tornado to occur you need warm and moist air and also some…

Yesterday early Saturday morning a disaster struck, a tropical storm turned into a disaster. Starting from Texas coast, making landfall at 2:10am over Galveston Island, travelling north creating havoc destruction in its path. The storm struck the US as a 600-mile wide putting Hurricane Ike in category 2, causing floods, damage to cities and hitting areas still damaged by Hurricane Gustav and 2005’s Rita. Before moving to Hispaniola, Cayman Islands, Mississippi, Florida Keys, Cuba, Louisiana,…

dangerous storms and you might get caught with. To survive a hurricane your family will need a few containers to store food and water in. Each person will need a gallon of water everyday, Don’t forget pets! Use food that doesn’t need to be cold or warmed up, EX:Raw vegetables, salt, sugar,and bread. Also need an aid kit encase someone gets hurt or injured during the storm, Ex: bandages, hand sanitizers, cold packs, medication, and C.P.R breathing. Also, need bedding and clothing if the storm…

Hurricanes are a type of disaster that is frequently mentioned in data center disaster recovery (DR) planning . Many individuals are accomplished about tropical storms and the impacts they can have on your server farm. In the meantime, there are unlimited extends of North America that have never encountered a sea tempest and likely never will. So some people think of them as local concerns, restricted to the Caribbean, and the Gulf and East Coast states. In any case, it is vital to be arranged…

write a detailed book on this tragic event. The perfect storm is a true story of men against the sea as stated on the cover of the book. Before I even started reading the book, I thought to myself, how possibly there could be a perfect storm or good storm because no storm is ever good. Then I read the foreword, which gives us a little background of why the author wrote the book and he says, “ I had some misgivings about calling it The Perfect Storm, but in the end I decided that the intent was…

Some natural disasters overwhelm the management capabilities of authorities, agencies, individuals, businesses, and of many others. When such incidents strike, they cause several casualties among humans and or indescribable damages to properties, and worse, some of the destructions they engender can never be repaired. After the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 which was a human-caused disaster, Hurricane Katrina inflicted in 2005 human losses, damages to goods and properties, and other…

torrential rain and storm surges which causes loss of human lives, destruction of livestock, fisheries, forests, agriculture, inundation of land and ponds…

Hurricanes and earthquakes are both very catastrophic natural disasters. Hurricanes are huge whirling storms which produce winds of 119 kilometers per hour (74 mph) or higher (Stillman). Hurricanes are very disastrous and can rip trees out of the ground and can move a building from one place to another. An earthquake i.e. trembling or shaking of the ground is the result of the violent shifting of massive rocks underneath the Earth’s surface called tectonic plates (“My Big Book of Knowledge” 26).…

Since April, California has had a harsh season for wildfires. The largest of which have only started in the past month or two. Together, the Thomas fire in Ventura county and the Creek fire in Los Angeles county damaged or destroyed at least 1,547 homes and injured at least 4 firefighters. Richard Halsey uses the Los Angeles Times’ platform to get his opinion of the fires’ source across to California residents. He first points out some of the causes people are pointing to. Next, he looks into…

Cyclones are a spinning and possibly dangerous storm. These storms bring many problems that should be mitigated. These powerful, intense spinning storms cannot be stopped, however some of the negative effects from cyclones can be mitigated. So what are cyclones and where abouts do they form? What are the effects of climate change on cyclones, will the frequency of them change? What are the negative effects and what can be done to prevent these? More awareness should be given out and buildings…