the city. Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 season. What caused Hurricane Sandy to happen is that Hurricane Sandy made an unusual turn and slammed head first into the population dense fast coast changing it forever. The hurricane began as a tropical wave in the Caribbean and quickly turned into a tropical storm in just 6 hours. It was upgraded to a hurricane on Oct.24 when it reached 74 mph winds. Hurricane sandy was a post-tropical cyclone that swept through
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The Storm On September 8, 1900, the greatest natural disaster to ever strike the United States occurred at Galveston, Texas. In the early evening hours of September 8, a hurricane came ashore at Galveston bringing with it a great storm surge that destroyed most of Galveston Island and the city of Galveston. As a result, much of the city was destroyed and at least 6,000 people were killed in a few hours’ time. The wind during the forenoon of the 8th was generally north, but oscillated, at
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The period of 1926 through 1927, was the time of the Great Mississippi Valley Flood. Eleven states along the Mississippi River were involved. There were a total of 63,509 buildings and homes that were destroyed in the flood. Also, there were 62,089 buildings that were damaged by the flood. It took people by surprise when the levee started to give way. The Mississippi rose up to a depth of 30 feet. In total, of 30,000 square miles were involved. There was a great loss of 500 people. There was also
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dysfunction was Hurricane Maria. Hurricane Maria was a category 5 hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico during late September 2017. In addition to catastrophic infrastructure damage, many lives were lost, both during the storm and due to storm related issues. These issues were only exacerbated by Hurricane Irma, a storm that had just hit the region just a couple weeks prior. The inefficiencies of the supply chain to get critical supplies to those in need, a real tragedy of Hurricane Maria, left Puerto
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The damage that Hurricane Harvey has caused shall take several months for the US economy to deal with. However consensus shows that this natural disaster won't have a dramatic effect on the US economy growth even though major cities such as Houston has been brutally flooded by Harvey. According to AccuWeather Hurricane Harvey damages is set to about $160 billion dollars, which would set it as the most expensive natural disaster to ever occur in US history. Other estimates seem to cost much less,
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will have the same or even greater damage. Hurricanes happen usually over warmer oceans with warm, moist air rising and air from the surrounding areas taking it place underneath. This causes a cyclone to appear. What generally makes a hurricane a hurricane is that is uses water as an energy source. As a hurricane forms, it take the water's potential energy and converts it to kinetic energy to fuel its movement and spin faster. This is also why Hurricane Irma has been losing speed as it move onto
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Constructive Speech What determines the outcome of someone’s life? Is it the choices they make or is it the situations they have been placed into? Good morning Mrs.Gittins, mediator, scores, my opponents, my colleague and audience. My partner and I agree on the fact that Willie is most definitely not to blame for the situation he has ended up in. In Willy’s case the outcome of his life is based on the situations he was placed into. We believe this is due to the fact that during his childhood
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Orleans Post-Katrina December 8, 2013 New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina, which hit the southeast United States in late August of 2005 was one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes in United States history. The city of New Orleans was arguably hit the hardest by the hurricane. The objective of this paper is to analyze the link between economic, political, and social conditions in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina and the conditions in New Orleans post-Katrina. Although
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Final Paper Christopher A. Malloy PHI 445: Personal & Organizational Ethics Instructor: Sandra Watts June 3, 2013 Final Paper The two organizations I will be focusing on throughout the course are two organizations I have actually donated to. The not-for-profit organization is the American Red Cross and the for-profit organization is Cancer Treatment Center of America. Being in the military and having a family member to have passed from cancer, these two organizations are dear to me
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Tameka Whitney Introduction to Geography April 7, 2013 Hurricane Katrina On August 29, 2005 the Gulf Coast of The United States would change forever. The country watch from near and far as one of the strongest hurricanes in the past century made landfall. It caused havoc for so many. The days leading up the predicted landfall of Katrina, many residence of the South from Louisiana to Florida took warning and evacuated. It was the less fortunate fold such as the elderly, homeless and the immobile
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