Winds of Vehemence Have you ever feared that your life was ending, going to flash before your eyes? That a loved one was going die? Hat you wouldn’t walk away unharmed? At least six hundred forty-seven people did. On August 5th 1969 a deadly storm formed off the coast of Africa. The seventh deadliest hurricane ever. Hurricane Camille was a lethal category five hurricane that caused the outcome not to be as pleasant as you would have expected, not many people made it out alive and those that did
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about it from someone they know. How does that make people feel? Does it make people feel like they should go out there, and help the people who are in need? Hurricanes have the capability to occur at any point in time. Hurricanes are a rotating tropical storm that happen when a lot of sea water evaporates, and the air temperature is around twenty-seven degrees. As individuals come together, they work as a team to help the hurricane victims, and bring supplies from all over to help those in need
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The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2011.[20] It was an above average season in which twenty tropical cyclones formed. Nineteen of the twenty depressions attained tropical storm status, tied with 1887, 1995, 2010, and later the 2012 season for the third highest number of named storms since record-keeping began in 1851. Seven of these tropical storms became hurricanes, while four of those hurricanes further intensified into major hurricanes.[21] The season was more active than
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Matthew Smith #28 Mrs. Walsh and Mr. Paolina Science 706 28 January 2018 The Skull A tropical cyclone forms over tropical or subtropical waters. According to NOAA's National Ocean Service, “A tropical cyclone is a rotating low-pressure weather system that has organized thunderstorms but no fronts (a boundary separating two air masses of different densities).” Hurricanes can be very devastating when they pass over land. Hurricanes can reach extremely high wind speeds of up to 190 miles per hour
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What is Mitigation? Mitigation is defined as on-going continuous actions which are used to minimize any future impacts of injuries, loss of life, or damage to property. Searching for methods to prepare all people and communities might be a challenge. For example, what precautions would a community take to prepare for a tornado? In an event of a disaster, a community may be limited to the number of officials in a police and/or fire department. Events such as a tornado, depending on which type, may
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Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem The tropical rainforests, such as the Amazon Rainforest are some of the richest environments in the world. They get their name because of the high amount of rainfall they get per year. The climate of a rainforest is very hot and humid, so all types of species must learn to adapt. A rainforest can hold as many as 80,000 plant species. Forty thousand of the Amazon Rainforest species regulate the whole planet’s climate. Anywhere between 40-100 species of trees can
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Meeting Katrina On December 2, 2006, when we moved to Valencia, California from the Philippines, I met my cousin Katrina. She was eight years old when I met her for the first time at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. I noticed that she was quiet. She would not talk to me or my mom, and she would refer to us as "The Relatives." I didn’t think of it as language barrier because she knew we can speak English fluently. We were living with them for a couple of months and during our first few days
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Tornadoes are one of the most violent and destructive natural occurring disasters known to man kind. They are one of the most powerful weather phenomena on land and can destroy an entire town in just minutes. They rank right along side hurricanes when it comes to destroying homes and ending lives each year. Statistically, tornadoes are the second ranked weather related cause for fatalities, heat comes in first. Tornadoes have been observed on all continents except Antarctica but are most common in
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In May 2007, during a deadly tornado outbreak, Greensburg, Kansas was destroyed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was an estimated 1.5 miles wide, wider than the city itself, and traveled for almost 22 miles. The tornadoes winds were estimated have reached 205 miles per hour by The National Weather Service. With 95% of the town destroyed, and the other 5% severely damaged the city council passed a resolution stating that all municipal buildings larger than 4,000 square feet be built to LEED-platinum
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It is human nature, that at a “personal and institutional level - to lose focus on long- term needs in the light of short- term demands.”64 Major Hurricanes of the scale of Katrina do not happen frequently so society tends to neglect and take no action. In doing so, they will unknowingly contribute to the severity of the consequences from the next hurricane strikes. Long term safety must take precedence and needs to “place the protection of public safety, health and welfare at the forefront of the
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