Hurricane Sandy: Personal Narrative

During Hurricane Katrina, my family and I had to evacuate from Louisiana and leave our home and belongings behind. As a child, I did not understand the actuality of the situation before us. I can clearly remember the day that they called a mandatory evacuation on Port Sulphur and my mom frantically packed as many photographs and important memorabilia as she could. My grandparents and other family members also had to evacuate from New Orleans. Seeing my dad board up all of the windows to try and keep the water from getting inside our house during the storm was the most frightening part for me. Our plan was to go and stay with my Uncle and Aunt in Tyler, Texas and eventually return home. What unfolded those next few weeks can only be described as unimaginable.

Hurricane Sandy was a tropical cyclone that devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles. Sandy is estimated in early calculations to have caused damage of at least $20 billion. Preliminary estimates of losses that include business interruption surpass $50 billion, which, if confirmed, would make it the second-costliest Atlantic hurricane in history, behind only Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Sandy started off as a small storm, but quickly grew to be a large and powerful hurricane that caused major destruction to the Caribbean islands and East Coast of the United Sates of America. On October 19, 2012, a tropical depression formed in the Caribbean Sea by Venezuela. In a matter of five days, the tropical depression gained speed and became known as Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy caused high wind speeds, rain, and even snow in all East Coast states, especially New Jersey. On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall in Atlantic City, New Jersey with peak wind speeds measuring just over 220 miles per hour. At this point, people who thought that they would wait the storm out realized what a

Like Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy is another natural disaster that is also considered a social disaster. This storm, which struck the northeast coast of the United States in late October of 2012, uncovered some pressing societal issues in the United States.

The sky was getting darker by the hour, and the people seemed to be going mad on the streets, trying to find food and water to sustain them for what would be the biggest hurricane of the century. The streets were filled with cars, it seemed as it were rush hour, every hour, and road rage was inevitable. The gas stations running out of gas and the ones that had, the lines would go all the way down the already busy streets. Our neighborhood was being forced to evacuate due to a storm surge of around 10 feet of water. Our

Both the textbook Superstorm Sandy: the Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore and The Business of Disaster PBS documentary discussed the effects that Superstorm Sandy had on New Jersey (and other regions, such as Staten Island and Connecticut, that were impacted), mainly residents whose homes were either severely damaged or lost altogether. Each goes into the sociological significance that an event like this has on the people that encounter it.

All over the world there are many natural disasters that happen and affect many people, there homes and many keepsakes.. Losing things close to your heart will hurt you and your family. People all around the world deem about what to do when something like this happens to their family or others. One of these natural actually happened right here in Fairfield Nj. Hurricane Irene hit and destroyed mostly everything. Surviving this hurricane must mean that many people are mortal and can survive many difficult things. Were all of the water is might leave you in a strife on where to go next?

Unfortunately, we got to experience our dose of hurricanes rather quickly. September 13, 2009 Hurricane Ike hit my hometown of Houston. We evacuated until the storm had passed and returned home to complete devastation. The entire town was mostly under water and almost unrecognizable. Our house had four feet of standing water that destroyed the first floor. We were without electricity for three weeks. Military trucks and the red cross delivered food and water to us during that time. Luckily, my home was on higher ground than most others so we housed many neighbors until they were able to return home. My brother and I would kayak down the flooded street and deliver supplies to those who could not be reached by the trucks. The hurricane brought my family closer and was a life experience I will remember forever.

I was evacuated from where I live and I went to my parents home. Around midnight on Saturday night my family decided to go up to my brother’s apartment at the University of Florida. The night we left the eye was predicted to go directly for my parent’s house so we decided it would be best to leave. Thankfully we were lucky when it came to the aftermath of the storm. I lost power for 9 days but we had minimal damage at both homes. In my opinion that was the scariest thing I have ever been through, and was unfortunately preparing for the worst. If the Hurricane winds had not pushed the Gulf waters away from shore the expected storm surge would have most likely destroyed my

The natural disaster that I can remember was the hurricane Rita of 2005. I was hired as a teacher in June to begin teaching in August. This was my first year as a teacher and several weeks later there was a hurricane in the gulf. The city of Beaumont began to welcome all families from New Orleans and they also made room for several students into the schools. The next couple of weeks Beaumont was under a hurricane Rite threat and many people recalled, was under a hurricane Rite threat and many people recall the devastation that Katrina did to New Orleans. I was devastated to hear about the storm on its way toward Beaumont Texas. The weather channel warned everyone to evacuate the cities all around Beaumont area. I was prepared to stay home

5 days, we were only out of power for 5 days, and yet it felt like an eternity. Hurricane Irma was by no means the worst storm that Florida has experienced but its effects were brutal. We had lost all of our power and our backup generator was suffering from some technical issues. We had no light so my family and I had to take turns using a handheld light to walk around our house with.We had no running water so all 7 of my family members had to take sponge baths.All of the food in our refrigerator had spoiled.The house was so hot that we all decided to sleep on the marble floor downstairs.

There’s nothing more beautiful than seeing people gather together to celebrate a common goal. Community service to me is something that every citizen that is capable and willing to give back, should do it as a sign of gratitude to those who have fallen and are still fighting for the freedom of this beautiful nation. My community service record started when I join A.F.J.R.O.T.C (Air force junior reserve officer training corps) at Aviation High school. The experience gather at this program was invaluable. One of the most memorable moments that I remember while being a cadet at this prestigious program was when Hurricane Sandy happened. As we all remember, Hurricane Sandy was one of the worst catastrophes that has happen to the east coast. Far Rockaway was one of the most hit areas hurricane sandy affected.

Though it hit land as a post tropical cyclone, it packed a punch before it was downgraded from category one status. Sandy had done most of her damage before she even crossed land. At hurricane status, Sandy’s hurricane force winds extended outward to 175 miles and her tropical storm force winds extend 943 miles outward. Sandy caused historic storm surge throughout the northeast, especially in New York and New Jersey as well. Sandy had pushed up water all along the eastern shoreline communities, along with the gravitational pull of the full moon, this was an astronomical tide event. New Jersey’s boardwalk and iconic carnival were destroyed, along with the Jersey's coastline which was ultimately reshaped, and left eroded. New York's Metropolitan Transportation system and The New York Stock Exchange were closed, which hasn’t occurred since 9/11. New York along with the entire northeast experienced mass power outages, displacement of houses, flooded communities, and ruined livelihoods. Canada and Vermont also experienced strong winds, and precipitation in snow form, which shows the mass scale of Sandy, and oddities that it brought. Sandy’s damages cost in all 68 Billion, and 65 Billion alone in the U.S, making it the second costliest hurricane in U.S history, behind Hurricane Katrina in 2005 which costed the U.S 125 billion in damages. In all Sandy had caused 285 direct fatalities,

Nearly 250 miles in diameter along with 3,000 miles traveled, more than 2.5 million were left without power, 546 deaths occurred, 128 were missing, and 439 were injured, with this, Hurricane Matthew was an extraordinarily devastating, category 5, Hurricane. The winds had sustained up to 160 miles per hour, flights were canceled, and evacuations were made mandatory for millions of people that lived along the Southeast Coast. My family and I fell victim to this horrific storm due to an extensive power outage. We had no running water, for the entirety of the following week. We made it through, because of a generator that was given to us, and non-perishable foods.

Climate change is influenced by the greenhouse effect which is the increase of Carbon dioxide, Methane, Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide. On one hand, the presence of these gases in the atmosphere make the earth habitable with respect to regulating the earth’s temperature. However, an increase in the concentration of these gases results in trapping energy in the atmosphere and this in turn increases earth’s temperature. “Global greenhouse gas emissions have grown since pre-industrial times, with an increase of 70% between