Natural Hazards Faith McPhee SANDSTORMS -wind current goes under layer of sand and picks it up like a tidal wave. -mostly in deserts (no vegetation) -Dust Devils in U.S.A (smaller version of sandstorm but with dust) -is sometimes caused by soil loss in dry lands -fast moving Cyclones/Typhoons/Hurricanes -Starts as storm‚ but is considered a TROPICAL storm when winds reach 74 miles per hour. -swirling water inward is eye‚ swirling < is southern hem‚ swirling > is northern hem. -Convection
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Ministry of Educational Zone Tornado INTRODUCTION The word tornado is an altered form of the Spanish word tronada‚ which means thunderstorm. This in turn was taken from the Latin tonare‚ meaning to thunder. It most likely reached its present form through a combination of the Spanish tronada and tornar. A tornado is also commonly referred to as a twister‚ and is also sometimes referred to by the old-fashioned colloquial term HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone o Cyclone cyclone. HYPERLINK
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campfire dishes were packed‚ and all that was left to do was load our personal belongings into our troop leader’s green minivan. We could hardly contain our excitement. Little did we know‚ the weather forecast that weekend was calling for severe thunderstorms. Packed and ready to go‚ we began the two-hour drive to Oregon Inlet in nearby North Carolina. As we drew closer to our destination‚ we began to notice more and more gray clouds appearing in the sky. Hopeful‚ we shrugged them off as little rain
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NATURAL DISASTERS A natural disaster is a major adverse event‚ which can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage. There are many types of natural disasters: avalanches‚ earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ floods‚ tsunamis‚ blizzards‚ droughts‚ hailstorms‚ tornadoes‚ wildfires. If an adverse event occurs in an area without vulnerable population‚ it will not have such disastrous consequences‚ as if it occurs in area of vulnerable population as in San Francisco
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Severe weather alert: U.S. study finds tornadoes coming in swarms Thursday‚ October 16‚ 2014 WILL DUNHAM FOR REUTERS A severe thunderstorm wall cloud is seen over the area of Canton‚ Mississippi in this April 29‚ 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Gene Blevins/Files By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tornadoes in the United States are increasingly coming in swarms rather than as isolated twisters‚ according to a study by U.S. government meteorologists published on Thursday that illustrates another trend
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Imagine being outside on a dark cloudy afternoon in Murphysboro‚ Illinois and the winds are roaring by you. Then you turn around and you see this monstrous funnel racing toward you. This is what happened to a group of people when the F5 tri-state tornadoes hit them on March 18‚ 1925. It drove through Missouri‚ Illinois‚ and Indiana killing a staggering number of 695 people and injuring 2‚027. It was one of the most devastating storms to the United States costing over $17 million (Briannica 54-55)
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A good writer’s depiction of setting positions the reader right into the story. In "To Build a Fire" by Jack London‚ the setting plays a significant role throughout the entire short story. London uses certain techniques to establish the atmosphere of the story. By introducing his readers to the setting‚ prepares them for a tone that is depressed and frightening. Isolated by the hostile environment of the Yukon in sub-freeing temperatures‚ a man falls victim to the unrelenting and unforgiving power
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A hurricane is a huge storm known as a “tropical cyclone”. These can also be identified as typhoons.The tropical storms winds must reach at least 74 mph to be considered a hurricane. Anything below this is just considered a tropical depression or a tropical storm. Hurricanes usually only occur in the Atlantic Hurricane season (June 1-November 30). Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. They use the warm moist air as fuel at the bottom of the hurricane. As the huge storm produces high wind speeds
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Ever “Every Little Hurricane” From Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Harper Perennial‚ 1994) Although it was winter‚ the nearest ocean four hundred miles away‚ and the Tribal Weatherman asleep because of boredom‚ a hurricane dropped from the sky in 1976 and fell so hard on the Spokane Indian Reservation that it knocked Victor from bed and his latest nightmare. It was January and Victor was nine years old. He was sleeping in his bedroom in the basement
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(1) the situation portrayed in the poem‚ Overall it is the poet asking the wind to scatter his words throughout the world Asking the wind to hear him First three cantos - decribtion of the powers of the wind First Canto Explains the purpose of the wind during the seasons Shows that the ode to the wind is not only optimistic. Dark element(leaves dead‚ Ghosts) The wind is considered the destroyer because of the way it sweeps life from the trees The wind id considered the preserver because
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