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Facts About Hurricanes
What if you were trapped in a hurricane and you were really worried because you knew nothing about hurricanes? Well, This essay will teach you some cool facts about hurricanes and what they can do. Hurricanes are big, rainy, and windy storms that usually happen in places around the world on the coast. Hurricanes are exciting, dangerous, and interesting all at the same time but there are many things that are included with them that we never could have guessed, similar to the things that they explain in Scholastic’s article, “ How Dangerous are they?” hurricanes are some interesting storms. Hurricanes are expressed in many different ways that we probably never could have imagined some of which are shown in “How Dangerous are They?” by Scholastic,

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