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    Hurricane Patricia hit land on Oct. 23. It set records for being the strongest hurricane ever based on the barometric pressure (879 millibars), the speed it changed from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane (24 hours), and the faster sustainable winds (200 mph). Hurricane Patricia starting forming in the Pacific, but didn’t hit anybody’s radar until it started to form a tropical storm in the Gulf of Tehuantepec which is in the Pacific Ocean west of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The storm…

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    Two of the United States worst natural disasters in money lost and life lost has been form hurricanes. The to hurricanes that steps up from the rest have been hurricane Sandy in 2012 that hit the northern east coast and hurricane Katrina that hit the southern east coast in 2005. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that is rotating low pressure system that has organized thunder storms with no front boundary separating two air masses of different densities. Tropical cyclones with sustained surface…

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    This article is important because it shows the psychology of response to social justice events especially pertaining to Hurricane Katrina. Green, Rodney D., Marie Kouassi, and Belinda Mambo. "Housing, Race, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina." The Review of Black Political Economy 40.2 (2013): 145-63. Web. This article discusses how Hurricane Katrina caused more destruction of housing in New Orleans for African Americans because of their historic settlement patterns. Correlation analysis was…

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    their existence. Hurricane Katrina was one of the coolest hurricane in United States history. It was really misinterpret breakdown of communication between the people and the government after the appearance of Hurricane Katrina. Which produced lack of experience in authorities positive and unnecessary demise that show some expression such as desperation, sorrow, exasperation and revulsion. Nature and America has constantly thrown storms at us, but none as damaging and mortal as Hurricane…

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    Irma Hurricane Irma is the strongest basin hurricane ever recorded, no hurricane has ever maintained 185 mile per hour winds for as long as Irma, which was a total of thirty-seven hours. The winds were only 135 miles per hour when Irma hit the US. It also caused for the largest evacuation in the Bahamas history. It spent three days as a category five hurricane which is the longest recorded time period for a hurricane to stay that strong. The US has never had two, category 4+ hurricanes in the…

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    Hurricanes are a force of nature like no other. They can be hundreds of miles wide, packing winds of 150 mph or higher. A severe hurricane can literally wipe the landscape clean. With hurricane season in Texas, preparation before the storm and action after it passes makes all the difference. Get a Plan Together Before the Storm Arrives How will you protect your business assets if a hurricane passes through your area? That is the question you need to answer when preparing your business'…

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    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, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Dominican Republic, Eastern Canada, Haiti and Great Lakes region, but not before reaching its highest peak a category 4 hurricane. “I am a storm chaser from Leicestershire, I travel the…

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    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…

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    Back in 1957, meteorologists and citizens did not have the technology we have today to track hurricanes. Everyone knew there was a storm arriving, but people were not expecting it to come until the following afternoon. Hurricane Audrey developed from a tropical wave that moved across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea during June 1957. The system began deepening over the Gulf of Mexico during on June 24, 1957. On June 25 at 06 GMT, the tropical storm was located at 21.6 Latitude, 93.3…

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    soon to be known as one of the biggest hurricanes in American history, formed over the Bahamas. This would be the 12th tropical storm of the hurricane season. On August 23, the tropical storm was picked up by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. At the time, the storm was very weak and unorganized, not considered to ever get…

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