Storm drain

Vigorously, the ferocious prevailing wind hit my face like a train plowing through my body. Fear - Overwhelming Fear - swirling around me, the mist was disorientating. The repetitive gusts of wind rapidly obliterating everything that lies between the marsh and I. The frequent gusts torn and ripped my skin like a spine chilling; blood curdling; demonic creature taking a bite into it's next victim... Cautiously pushing the heavy gates open, the touch of iron bars - as cold as ice - seized up my…

my beloved. As I felt my blood pulsating throughout my body I clasped onto my innocent little girl to young to understand the events where were occurring around her. As I squeezed her fragile body against mine, protecting her from the treacherous storm which was unfolding before our eyes. I began running down the main street without a soul in sight, feeling the gush of wind pressing its forces against me, each step i touch felt like two more back. the harder i pushed through the gale as though…

As I first started reading "Before The Storm" I initially thought this story was going to be cut and dry. It started with two intoxicated people meeting in a bar. I pictured what you could probably see at any of your local bars. The author then began making references to comparing the encounter to a storm. It was then I started to get a poetic and deeper meaning to the story I was reading. The title then seemed very appropriate to me. Comparing a storm to an intoxicated experience can be very…

William M. Gray and their associates at Colorado State University (CSU), Tropical Storm Risk, and the United Kingdom's Met Office. The forecasts include weekly and monthly changes in significant factors that help determine the number of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes within a particular year. As stated by NOAA and CSU, an average Atlantic hurricane season between…

devastating super storm that affected the islands of the Philippines, especially Tacloban city. According to Barmania (2014) the typhoon, that had wind speeds around 150 mph, killed 6200 and displaced 4 million people, leaving the country in despair. Characteristics of typhoon Haiyan and Tacloban City: The characteristics of typhoon Haiyan were very specific and the physical setting of Tacloban city amplified the impact of this super storm. In general, typhoons are tropical storms consisting…

Incredible growth and development was cultivated from a monumental storm event during the summer of 2013. The first 11 days of July 2013 recorded 20 inches of rain. During the following two days, July 12 and 13, an additional eight inches of rain fell but in a very short period of time. This amount of rain within such a short period of time resulted in a flood of unprecedented proportions for the South Carolina Botanical Garden. The devastation that occurred to the plants, animals, and…

dollars in damage, with wind speeds of 190 MPH. Hurricane Allen (1980), its winds matching the speeds of Camille, causing many cyclones to form causing 300 million dollars in damage and 249 casualties. Hurricane Gilbert (1988), measuring the largest storm by diameter it had wind speeds of 185 MPH, it took the lives of 340 people and caused a whopping 5 billion dollars in damage. Hurricane Hugo (1989), took 49 lives and left 100,000 people homeless and it caused 7 billion dollars in damage, its…

when the storm is spinning one way on bottom and the opposite way up towards the atmosphere. Now since Saturn is moving on it’s axis with its own velocity, it then drags with it the storm’s spinning at their own speed as well; which would bring the storms straight to the poles (Kluger 2016). O 'Neil even quoted saying, “ The whole atmosphere is being dragged by its planet as it rotates… so all that air has some ambient angular momentum.” (Chu 2016). Over a great amount of time if these storms…

nature’s greatest manifestations of God 's power and peace simultaneously. Throughout history, hurricanes have been recognized as some of the most violent storms ever recorded. A hurricane can be defined as, “ A violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour.” Cyclonic storms are those with, “A system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure, with a counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise…

The story, “The Storm,” is a lustful sequel to “The ‘Cadian Ball,” which were both written by Kate Chopin. The story takes place in Louisiana while a major storm is brewing. During this storm, Bibinôt and his young son, Bibi, are at a local market running some errands when they realize they are too far away from home to go out into the storm. To stay safe, they decided to stay at the market for a little while and buy some shrimp to allow the storm to pass through. Meanwhile, Bibinôt’s wife and…