Wind

over-ploughing. When they started ploughing the grass, there was nothing to hold the dirt down in the plains. Something else that did not help anything was that there was a drought at the time so it never rained. The dirt turned into a dust, so any time the wind…

Many people do not know about the dangers of hailstorms, which is very unsafe. Not knowing this can result in many severe injuries or death! That is why knowing about these types of storms and letting others know about them could be life saving. If you told someone what to do when a hailstorm comes, and a hailstorm does come, the people that do know, will be safe. Hailstorms can be extremely dangerous, and it is important to understand how to be safe when one occurs because they severely affect…

April 27, 2011 a major tornado struck down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama killing fifty-two people. This tornado was classified as an EF4 with winds reaching up to 190 miles per hour. The damage of this disaster impacted everyone in the community of over 80,000. “Many public facilities were damaged or destroyed including two elementary schools, a nursing home, a fire station, and the city’s emergency operation center” (Rush, S. C., Houser, R., & Partridge, A. 2015). Commercial property was also…

also in the unpredictable, extreme weather which has been experienced lately in South Wales. The UK suffers about sixty tornadoes, or 'mini-tornadoes', a year, according to the Met Office, and Newport gets its share of wild weather; powerful 60mph winds have wreaked damage on more than one occasion. Storm damaged roofs in Newport Due to fierce weather, numerous storm damaged roofs in Newport have needed extensive repairs in recent years.…

Empty Today was a sunny autumn day. The birds were singing, and the wind was blowing through the leaves. Marcus and his parents had just moved into an old farmhouse on several acres of secluded land. After a couple of months of living there, Marcus had started to notice odd things, like the flickering of the lights, shadows walking out the corner of his eye, and sometimes even objects moving. Marcus tried telling his parents, but they didn’t believe him. There were no electrical issues because…

with a sense of relief. The protagonist says, “Almost in reconciliation, it seemed the same waves that had washed up on the beach when I was a boy were now fondly washing my feet, soaking black my shoes and pant cuffs”. But just as a large gust of wind, scary at first, but relieving in the end: Forty long years collapsed like a dilapidated house, mixing old time and new time together in a single swirling mass. All sounds faded, and the light around me shuddered. I lost my balance and fell into…

Leaves are slowly beginning to fall off the trees and changing to beautiful orange, red, and yellow colors. The wind is getting colder and colder, and sweaters, scarfs, and coats are becoming a part of her everyday outfit. It is that time of year again. Fall is 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…

“You better get in this house before the windigo gets you.” This is a phrase many of us grew up hearing from our mothers, when it was time to come in the house. In my mind, that was kind of like “the boogie man.” Neither of them were a real threat, I had no fear or horrifying images, it just meant it was time to come in the house. When I saw windigo psychosis as an option for this culture-bound syndrome term paper, I choose it for a couple reasons, first I remembered the phrase from above and…

It was a humid and quiet day with my dad. Sitting in the woods waiting for one thing and only one thing. The only thing to hear for miles was the wind whistling in your ear as it passed. It was the last wednesday of the month, November 29, 2016. The second day of rifle season at the same time the last day of rifle season. A lesson came in as the bullet hit, a lesson that will never be forgotten. Sitting in the wood’s did not smell delightful, smelled like dirt and that’s it. Freezing sitting…

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…