Maggie Baker Tornado Town

April was a month of destruction. The small community Center, Kentucky as hit by two EF-1 tornados within the short span of 10 days. Large hail and damaging winds downed buildings, twisted trees, caused severe hail damage, and even knocked over tombstones in the Asbury-Center cemetery. Team Rubicon a veteran-led disaster response organization and Christian Aid Ministries came to assist residents with the cleanup following the severe weather outbreak. (#7 PIC tornado damage)

The author’s frightening story, “The Storm” has all the expected things that a good scary story should have. It has a story line that gains suspense throughout the story, there is irony, and there is lots of

“On May 25, 2008, a tornado with winds exceeding 200 mph cut a hole three quarters of a mile wide

"The Storm: Chaos and Tragedy": Answer the following questions as you view the PBS video excerpt "Chaos and Tragedy."

This paragraph is about Hurricane’s, Tornados and what they have in common. If you’ve seen a hurricane you know they do a lot of damage which one do you think does more damage? They both cause great pain and suffering for families. Both can cause a great deal of damage to homes or other buildings.

The author wrote this essay based on her experience of living in Los Angeles and dealing with these horrific winds. The focus of this essay was all on the dangers that the Santa Ana winds has brought to the state of California, specifically the southern parts. The message of this essay was that the Santa Ana winds were able to drive the citizens to the edge. This message was shaped throughout this essay, using rhetorical devices and moves in the text. The rhetorical devices this text uses are tone and syntax. The tone of this essay was serious and devastating. In the beginning, the author was serious in her tone about a topic that is very grim. “I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it, and almost everyone I have seen today knows it too. We know it because we feel it.” This quote explains the author describing how no one has heard that the Santa Ana winds are coming, but everyone knows it’s coming because they can feel it. This quote is poised in such a serious matter that the reader can sense the tone in this very sentence. The syntax that is represented in this essay is when the author is foreshadowing the rest of her essay in the first sentence. “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension.” This quote explains how something doesn’t feel right, which the reader can infer that the author is talking about a Santa Ana rolling in sometime soon in the

"The Storm: Chaos and Tragedy": Answer the following questions as you view the PBS video excerpt "Chaos and Tragedy."

The tornado started at the west side of the town and ended in a different town. May 22 was the day where it changed everybody’s lives. It was just a perfect day were it was busy, everyone was at work and church and there was even a graduation at Joplin High School. Until 5:00 pm. At 4:00 P.M. There were reports that there were funnel clouds near the area. At 5:00, Storm Chasers, Jeff and Kathryn Piotrowski were coming from a storm system in Kansas that was traveling towards Joplin. The storm could produce

Have you ever wondered what that spinning cloud in the sky is? Or why all of a sudden it is humid out, but the wind is cold? There are approximately 1,000 tornadoes that occur each year in the US, but there are also many that go undetected and unreported. In El Reno, Oklahoma, in 2013, a tornado hit and covered 175 miles per hour. This was the fastest, and largest storm ever recorded. Oklahoma has about fifty-two tornadoes occur, on average a year.

During the summer of 2011, I went to visit my cousins that lived in Fairfax County. One night there was a tornado warning, and the strong winds and rain had cut off all the power to the house. All we had to that night was tell stories, and one tale brought up was about the county we were in. While the urban legend intrigued me, you could easily identify the overarching message of the tale which was to be cautious at night.

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that spins while in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. This is what hit a little town called Greensburg Kansas, no bigger than 785 people. The tornado ripped through the town like a child goes through their present on Christmas morning. From this day on Greensburg will never be the same, dreams and hopes scattered everywhere. But, Greensburg came back and hit the tornado back by trying to become the “Greenest Town in America”.

With personal narratives and exciting stories integrated throughout the report, Koerth-Baker did an excellent job in engaging readers and connecting the topic with the audience. For example, from the get-go, Koerth-Baker introduced an exciting and suspenseful story about her father, ultimately proposing an open-ended question for the audience to ponder as she lays out the facts. By explaining to the readers the proximity of the tornadoes to everyday people from the very first word of her report, it invests the reader into her topic, causing them to be interested in the problem and to even ponder the quandary of the situation. Once Koerth-Baker began explaining how, where, and why tornadoes work and discussing the information that had the potential

2.First,tornadoes are very districtive. In paragraph 2 the text states that,''A rare ''violent'' tornado can demolish anything in its path.The affected terrain can be left with overturned trains and cars,few standing buildings,and heaps of debris scattered in all directions over a vast area.''This means that the tornadoes are so destructive they

No storm is experienced the same. Seeing a storm on the horizon has the power to stir up gripping memories, introspective thoughts, and convoluted emotions. The poem “Storm Warnings”, by Adrienne Rich, applies a predictable structure paired with flowing syntax, and ambiguous diction- speaking both of weather and emotions- to illustrate that one cannot avoid the tribulations of life, embodied as the approaching storm, but instead prepare for their arrival.

Tornadoes are one of the deadliest and most unpredictable villains mankind will ever face. There is no rhyme or reason, no rhythm to it’s madness. Tornados are one of the most terrifying natural events that occur, destroying homes and ending lives every year. April 29th, 1995, a calm, muggy, spring night I may never forget. Jason, a buddy I grew up with, just agreed to travel across state with me so we could visit a friend in Lubbock. Jason and I were admiring the beautiful blue bonnets, which traveled for miles like little blue birds flying close to the ground. The warm breeze brushed across the tips of the blue bonnets and allowed them to dance under the perfectly clear blue sky. In the distance, however, we