Into the Storm: Review By Tahlia Jones Into the Storm is a 2014 American film directed by Steven Quale and written by John Swetnam. Into the Storm follows the story of three groups as they are faced with the biggest super storm the world has ever seen. The film is shot in a ‘found footage’ style trying to immerse the audience in the action and terror of a super storm. Steven Quale’s climate fiction film offers many things for the audience except a substantial plotline. The script appears to be neglected
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I agree with the author Gracy Olmstead when she said that liberatian zoning does not have anything to do with the destruction of Houston due to Hurricane Harvey. Based on what I know a hurricane is an natural disaster. There is not really anything we can do to stop a hurricane from coming into the states. Only thing Houston can do is prepare to either evaluate or prepare a safety emergency plan. I was very shocked to hear that there were twenty-one trillion gallons of water which had fallen on Texas
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August 25th through September 2nd, 2012. It started as a tropical storm as do all hurricanes. Hurricanes are created by the air and water pressure. Isaac was a hurricane that had passed a lot of places. Isaac was a tropical storm heading for the Gulf of Mexico. It hit Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Mississippi, Alabama, Cuba, Louisiana, Bahamas, Southeastern U.S., Florida, Arkansas, and Leeward Islands. Hurricane Isaac a was deadly and destructive tropical cyclone making landfall in southeastern Louisiana,
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The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region that is warm all year long. Anywhere between 50 to 260 inches of rain falls a year. The temperature in a rainforest doesn't get higher than 93 degrees or drops below 68 degrees ; average humidity is between 77 and 88%;more often than not rainfall reaches 100 inches a year. There is usually a brief season of less rain. In monsoonal areas, there is a real dry season. Almost all rain forests lie near the equator. Rainforests now cover less
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developed from a tropical wave in the Caribbean on October 22nd, 2012. On October 29th, its surge hit New York City flooding not only the streets, but subway lines and tunnels. It also cut power throughout 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
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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 most recent US natural disaster, and one of the strongest examples of supply chain 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
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Where is this place? The picture above shows the Amazon area. The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on earth. Besides it being the largest rainforest of the world, it is almost half of the worlds remaining rainforests and is the most bio diverse one. The whole area including the rivers and the forest is called the Amazon basin. The basin spreads out over a 7.000.000 square kilometres, of which 5.500.000 is rainforest. The rainforest covers nine countries. About 60 percent of the rainforest
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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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The events in Texas over the past week have been devastating. There is no doubt that the events that are about to transpire over Florida 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
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