A Summary Of The Hurricane

As the storm begins to roll in, Esch and her family are centralized in their small home recounting the memories of the hurricanes that came before Katrina. Esch specifically reimagines her mother’s pregnancy with Junior. Ward uses this specific story to show a connection between Mama’s pregnancy and Esch’s. Esch is able to see how strong her mother was even though she was pregnant, and this gives her a chance to see that she can become the same strong woman her mother once was. All of the storytelling abruptly comes to an end because of a fallen tree in the yard. Soon after, water rises and panic

Relegated to an underemployed underserved neighborhood by a combination of government policy and inaction, Lauren’s community is required to find a way to be self-sustainable despite lacking wealth and resources. Instead of submitting themselves to the abject poverty, they conceive of new ways to flourish given the few resources they do have, and with the guidance of religion to keep morale up. However, unlike in wealthy gated communities, Lauren’s primary objective is continued survival and perseverance. In her survival planning, she tells Joanne that they need to have a plan to “‘survive and rebuild’” (Butler, 55) so as to not end up impoverished on the streets of the world outside. Despite feeling unsafe and uneasy in their privatopia, she still seeks to recreate a similar community if she was to, as she says,“survive and rebuild” (Butler, 55). She cannot imagine an alternative to that type of living, merely aspiring to have a better, more sustainable version of her walled community. The wall separates Lauren and her psyche from the “pitiful, unwalled residential areas” (Butler, 10) not only physically but also cognitively. Her walled community does not encourage her to feel the pain of those on the outside as she would when empathizing with the members of her own community. It is easier to view the outside as other when physically separated by a wall; they are no longer

In the last chapter, the plot suddenly focuses on a family that is living in this new town. The

This passage is significant because it reminds the readers that although this takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, the people still have feelings and reputations that they would like to protect. It reminds readers of the humanity of the characters.

Hurricanes carry powerful energy and suggests a powerful shift in Janie’s life. It is destructive but may also signify the sweeping away of something in life and will bring change. This is precisely what took place as Janie and Tea Cake run from the storm. As the Indians and animals relocated east to safety, they both decide to stay despite the warnings. “Dis time tuhmorrer you gointuh wish you follow crow” (156) foreshadows the impending disaster. The storm brings with it a dog with rabies who bites Tea Cake. After a month without treatment, Tea Cake dies. With the demise of Tea Cake, Janie feels her life is ending as well. “Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all” (178). The theme that ties in with the hurricane is mortality. It proves to be a sharp contrast from the pear tree which brings the promise of life and love.

The New York Times article, “Left to Louisiana’s Tides, a Village Fights For Time,” discusses the plight of Jean Lafitte, a town of seven thousand people located two miles below the levee protecting New Orleans. A fourth of Louisiana’s wetlands have been lost, much of which is due to intense hurricanes from 2005 to 2008. It is estimated that a football field worth of wetland disappears every 100 minutes and that in 200 years the wetlands will be completely gone. This degradation is due to climate change and human intervention in the area in pursuit of oil and farmland and in the creation of levees. Oliver A. Houck, a Tulane professor quoted in the article, claims, “It is the largest ecological catastrophe in North America since the Dust Bowl.” The loss of the wetlands puts coastal, working-class communities, many of which have lived in the area since the 1800s, in danger of washing away. Local governments

Hurricane Andrew, some may say it was the worst hurricane ever to make landfall on US soil. In my research I have found that andrew was the worst for the 90’s time period. In the 90’s the people had very poor storm shelters for such a horrific storm a lot of people died because of this.

I am located in Tallahassee a terrible hurricane recently passed thru when it did it knocked power out all over the city I was without power for over a week as well as cable so I was unable to complete assignmentsy phone was dead and on top of that a tree fell on my car so I was unable to charge my phone to get in contact with anybody.

The article that I picked was Why This Hurricane Season Has Been So Catastrophic by Michael Greshko. Greshko in this article looks at Harvey, Irma and Maria, and looks at why this hurricane season has been so active. When hurricane Irma hit it quickly became known as the strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history and Greshko drew comparisons between the last two powerful storms that hit the United States Katrina and Rita. The article looks at how active this 2017 hurricane season forecast has been. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Colorado State University, and the Weather Channel all estimate that we are likely to see more hurricanes than usual spawning in the Atlantic Ocean. It looks like there could be between 15 to 19 names storms and five to nine hurricanes

This foreshadows that Katrina will be the desire of the town because she is the “fertile nook” of the village where her wealth and power will be passed on to her kids. Katrina is shown as a symbol of wealth and fertility not to degrade women, but rather to bare the fact they are needed to sustain and conceive future generations of the town.

In the poem “Storm Ending” written by Jean Toomer, African Americans and their lives which is under the rule of a white society is represented by certain aspects of nature. Throughout the poem, Jean uses pieces of nature, for example flowers. He compares the thunder to flowers that “blossoms gorgeously” and the clouds being “full-lipped flowers”. Along with all of these, Jean uses a handful of literary devices and imagery to give a better insight on his comparison of nature and the average African American in a dominant white culture. A good example of this is how he utilizes visual imagery throughout the story such as “bleeding rain” which can show the beating African Americans take from their owners.

Hurricane Ike was a very large, powerful tropical cyclone that formed in the Atlantic Ocean in September of 2008. Ike was especially remarkable due to its extremely large size, very large wind field, and damaging flood surge. Ike made landfall in several different areas, making its affects felt in more than one area. The main areas affected by Ike was parts of the Greater Antilles and North America, especially Texas. Ike’s track started off the coast of Africa, crossed the Atlantic into the Caribbean, and then entered the Gulf of Mexico making its final landfall in Texas. Ike then travelled North-Northeast across the Southern and Midwest regions of the United States and then crossed into Canada. According to NOAA,

The Effects of a HurricaneHurricane effects. Hurricaneville. Retrieved from http://www.hurricaneville.com/effects.htmlHurricanes are very fascinating to track and to view on satellite, but beyond the fascination there is some harsh reality to these storms. Hurricanes are among the most powerful and deadliest forces in nature, which bring various kinds of effects to the area it makes landfallover. Some of these effects such as copious amounts of rain can be beneficial during a drought, but most of the time these effects are unwanted. Three of these unwanted effects are Storm surge and tidal flooding, Tornadoes and High Winds.Storm surge refers to abnormally high-water levels generated by severe storms such as hurricanes, cyclones, and nor'easters.

To develop a method to minimize the damage a hurricane can do, we must first understand how hurricanes work. Hurricanes begin to form as tropical disturbances over the eastern part of a tropical ocean basin. The next phase of hurricane formation is a tropical depression, but we only need to be concerned about tropical disturbances with particularly low pressure and a westward velocity because “~10% continue westward and organize: pr

After giving a detail description on “The Downpour” through the usage of amplification, personification, metaphors and similes to invoke imagery and reverberant sound, Arena eventually applies flashback to the passage. We see this where he states, “Finally I would run outside, naked, and let the rain soak me through...I was not satisfied with rolling in the grass, I wanted to fly, to fly like those birds alone in the downpour.” The writer portrays the downpour as an “extraordinary event” in the life of the child by giving the audience a personal reference to his experience in the downpour. This enables the readers to appreciate this momentous event by engaging the reader more into the passage. The writer’s awestruck tone also contributes significantly to this passage as it sets the attitude of the passage and aids setting the atmosphere. This compels the audience to imagine and almost feel like they are experiencing this event, thus, Arena successfully portrays the downpour as an “extraordinary event” in the life of the