Thunderstorm

Cracked, Crumbled and Dusty We heard the winds it was eardrum shattering again our thin windows, saw the sky turn black as the night and everything went quiet. I could see the fear in my mother's eyes, I knew and she knew that this was going to be one of the worst storms with a cloud of black dust over four hundred feet high. My mother yelled to me,” Maryanne get the wet towels and, Matthew take cover, it is coming. We knew what we were talking about, the dust bowl. All of a sudden out of…

Stepping out of my truck, I pound my right foot on the shaking, sandy, dusty, ground. I take a positive look on the main thing that made me drive over here in the first place, the blasting, whistling tornado. The tornado was exceptionally tall, and thick, reminding me of a nuclear mushroom cloud. The tornado literally reached up into the stormy clouds. Some of the dust that went along with the tornado went into my eyes, so, I had to look down, onto the dusty, shaking, landscape. The ground…

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…

Delaney lived alone after the death of his wife of 51 years. His house was located on the ridge facing northeast just above the Poplar Hill plantation. He had a full view of the property he farmed, raised his family, witnessed history and that he owned. On April 24, 1908 Delaney experienced in his home the tornado, which traveled 150 miles through Louisiana and Mississippi. The damage was so extensive that it took about three days after the storm before his sons found Delaney. He had…

Hurricane, a storm with a violent wind, particularly a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean. The term, Hurricane, is a term only really used when a large storm takes place and has been formed over the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes have been reported since the 1900's and are still being reported to this day. "On August 30th, 2017, a Hurricane named Irma formed in midst of the Atlantic Ocean and stretched into parts of Florida. This hurricane lasted 15 days, ending on September 13th,…

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).…

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…

By the time Hurricane Alex made landfall in the Azores, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm and thankfully did little damage. But the real significance of the storm was in its timing and location. The Atlantic hurricane season officially lasts from June 1 to November and the January-born hurricane is a weather anomaly not seen since 1955. Major hurricanes with names and potential for significant damage are normally only seen from July onwards. Alex began as a tropical depression, first…

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…

Module 2 - SLP The emergency response plan will cover three types of emergencies in Atlanta, Georgia community as discussed earlier. The emergencies include winter storms, tornadoes, and floods. The hazard and vulnerability analysis will focus attention on these hazards, which are highly likely to have a great impact on Atlanta, Georgia community and its facilities. Four categories will be used to place each disaster into perspective. The categories include probability, response, property…