Natural Disasters In America's History

Now as a person if someone looked outside they would see a dim gloomy sky, and the tides were clashing into the seashore. I was scared of how atrocious the weather was, but after a little while longer all of us got to the weather shelter. While in the shelter the power went off, and to make matters more appalling everybody could hear the thunder reverberating and booming outside. The thunder made me skittish, and the wind was howling as loud as a wolf. Moments later when the hurricane stopped, and it was okay to go outside everybody could see the deterioration done to the

It was one fairly sunny day in Houston Texas It started to get windy then it started to rain. All of a sudden it started to storm hard then the wind got stronger all of a sudden it started pouring people that were watching the news had alarms going off. And then the storm sirens started to go then the people of houston knew they were in trouble now people and families were scared the storm was horrible the people of houston knew it was a hurricane. The storm lasted around five hours.

Many had traveled off to church that morning and then spent Sunday afternoon with family and friends. In a documentary by Marcie Robinson, we hear the clear memories of those who lived through this time. “The cloud came from the North/Northwest, is started as a small cloud and as it rolled closer it grew larger and larger” (Robinson web). This wall cloud was said to so thick and dark that it blacked out the sun, many wondered if it was their last day on earth and the world was coming to an end. What was happening was, a polar air mass had charged the air with static electricity then picking up thousands of particles of soil. The temperature suddenly dropped and the winds grew to a speed of sixty miles per hour. Within minutes after it cloud reached you, you were in complete darkness, not able to see your hand in front of your face or a lamp burning within the room. This storm lasted one afternoon, but when it had passed, soil had collected along the sides of barns as high as the roof. Another report told how chickens that were out in the yard at the time of the storm, were buried in the dust, many died from

Residents of the Lone Star State are fond of saying that everything is bigger in Texas, from football teams to marching bands, farmers' markets to barbecue favorites. But a corollary to that oft-spoken refrain is everything is better in Texas as well. After all, the state was the second-most inbound location for families who moved in 2015, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and for eight consecutive years, Harris County maintained the distinction as the U.S. county with the most significant annual population growth.

The state of New York was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, particularly its suburbs, Long Island, and New York City. The devastation impacted New York City's Subway system, road tunnels, and many communities across the area. Furthermore, the New York Stock Exchange closed for two days, an entire hospital complex had to be evacuated as well as the surrounding neighborhood, and multiple fires destroyed over 100 homes in Queens. Thus, in the end, 53 people lost their lives due to Sandy. The economic impact accrued damage to thousands of homes and an estimate of 250,000 vehicles across New York. The city faced $19 billion in damage, with $32.8 billion required for restoration across the state of New York. (City of New York)

In July 1993 Hardin, Missouri it was a day like other in the small town . The day was gray and the dark clouds covered the enormous sun. It started to rain,but what they didn’t know was that the storm was going to get worse! The little river in Missouri was the one that started it all. Water rushed faster than my mom on Black Friday, into their homes. The people rushed out of their homes. The storm got worse,but what they didn’t think of was that there was a little problem the dead was going to rise but they would not walk but float! This is what happened the water rushed to the cemetery and made the coffins of the towns loved ones had came up in the surface

First during the day the dust storm was coming you could see the 7,000 feet high storm coming in our direction. While the storm was coming everyone was panicking on what to do some people were getting prepared on what to do. When the storm hit it was a disaster and i could hardly see anything. Some people were still outside and i was wondering what was going on and could hear or see anything because of the storm it was a whole disaster for our city.

In 1990, the galveston hurricane occurred. It was one of america’s deadliest natural disasters. It all started on august 27th, with very high winds coming from the tropical atlantic. On september 3rd, it reached cuba, cuba then had heavy rain. U.S weather bureau ignored the reports from cuban meteorologist because they expected the storm to move to the northeast along the U.S east and then exit to the atlantic. They were wrong the region of high pressure pushed the storm west to the gulf of mexico. The tides kept getting closer to the inland and the winds increased. It ended on september 17, with buildings destroyed. No one really knew it was gonna be that bad but it destroyed a lot of galveston. This disaster killed 6,000 to 8,000+. The

New Orleans is one of the world's most fascinating cities. It's home to truly unique melting pot of culture, food and music. Its jazz and food are some things that attract hundreds of tourists but it has also been the victim to many great natural disasters. But the disasters it’s people have faced never seem to bring them down.

There’s a lot of important and significant event in the history of America. I’m going to talk about 3 historically significant events that have happened to America. This introduction would be longer but I really can’t think of anything else to say. So with that, let’s get started.

Creatures run and fly away from it And all of a sudden your mom hands you a wet towel to put over your face. In the mid 1930s oklahoma,texas,kansas,new mexico,colorado where hit by hundreds of these storms . It was one of america's worst natural disasters.

Japan has been having a series of natural disasters of great magnitude from as early as 1920s with the most common disasters being the earthquakes resulting from seismic actions and storms. The worst of the quakes took place in 1923 with a casualty of 143,000 deaths. This has been ranked as the worst disaster that has ever befallen Japan followed by the March 2011 quake that occasioned a tsunami.

When I got home later that night, the news was now claiming my neighborhood as an evacuation zone. I didn't believe it. "It'll be fine," I thought "nothing bad will happen here." Apparently, I was the only one that believed that because every person in my development was gone. The storm was scheduled to arrive that next morning and I would be facing it alone. I came to the realization that I was the only person in my county with a functioning brain. Everyone was wasting their time and energy preparing for nothing.

I have interviewed Qian Mei Chen who is my mother and who also experienced what happened during the storm. She says that this was the first time a storm this big has ever hit New York and told me what happened during the storm. During the storm she had to prepare food and candles just in case if stores will be closed the next day and the candles would be used if there was a

Disagreeing with this statement is the argument of scale and how this could be used to justify why a natural disaster could exist. A devastating natural event could provide worldwide disruption and no-one could do anything to mitigate against it. This is what could be used to describe a natural disaster. Nothing human increases the impact in such a way that could without human interference it would be just another natural event. An example of this is the Yellowstone volcano. With predictions of the eruption being VEI 8, this event would cause a worldwide destruction, covering the USA in thick ash which by itself would cause devastating consequences to the entire country. This is noted in Keller and DeVecchio’s “Natural Hazards” book when they state that a quantity of 100km3 of pyroclastic debris including ash would cover the size of Manhattan to a height of 1.6km which is 1000 times the amount emitted by Mt St. Helens in 1980. This size of eruption would have a thickness of 100m near the crater of Yellowstone and 1m thick up to 60mi away from the crater. (Keller and DeVecchio, 2012). This size of eruption would cause health problems and fatalities all across the North of America and could seriously affect global weather patterns. The 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption was a VEI 6, and caused a global cooling of temperature down by -0.4°C (Self, Zhao, Holasek, Torres, King, 1999). This had extremely catastrophic consequences in terms of agriculture which caused a large amount of