Typhoons

Over the past decade, the world has experienced more natural disaster than people can count. Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and raging fires are just a few of the events that have stripped people away from their families, homes, and possessions. The deadliest of these natural disasters are hurricanes. Extremely strong winds mixed with large waves can cause enormous damage, taking months, even years for towns to recover. Hurricane Katrina left millions of people without homes and families torn apart. Hurricane Sandy demolished the Jersey coast, leaving years of repair work behind. The most recent and powerful hurricane that surfaced is Hurricane Maria. A level five hurricane, Hurricane Maria ripped straight through the United States territory of Puerto Rico. The island lost power, supplies

Hurricanes and tornadoes are both severe weather events that can potentially cause a great deal of damage to property. Both of these storms can threaten human life and in severe events with either a hurricane of a tornado there may well be a loss of life. They may be quite different in how they form and what they actually do but on the other hand those storms are both potentially devastating so they fall into the same category of potential severe weather danger. People who live in areas where hurricanes and tornadoes are known to appear during certain seasons of the year are always urged to be alert to weather warning systems. Those same residents know from experience to keep their radios tuned to weather emergency stations and they are in many cases prepared for the brunt of a storm by building basement shelters.

Hurricanes are mainly found in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Hurricanes in the Pacific are called typhoons. A more general term for these storms is a tropical cyclone. Hurricanes are named, and the naming process resets at the beginning

To begin with, “Hurricanes that originated in the northwest Pacific Ocean are called typhoons” (133). Typhoons are

Hurricane Maria has hit Puerto Rico, destroying buildings leaving its approximately 3.4 million residents largely without electricity. Hurricane Maria crashed into Puerto Rico early Wednesday as a “Potentially Catastrophic” Category 4 storm that was set to become the most powerful to strike the US territory in almost 90 years.

The most recent cyclones to hit the island before the earthquake were Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike, all in the summer of 2008, causing nearly 800 deaths.[27]

Why was the typhoon so devastating, especially to a country that is prepared for (and has sustained) annual typhoons?

Natural disasters occurring from the climate change could be on the rise. Global warming has been rumored to be causing more hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, heavier monsoonal rains that cause major flooding, mud slides, and other disasters worldwide. A tropical cyclone, also referred to as hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones, depending on where in the world the cyclone is occurring, are one of the world’s grandest shows of energy provided by nature. Hurricanes are large, swirling, low pressure storms that have sustained winds of over 74 miles an hour and are formed over warm ocean waters (NASA, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to discuss hurricanes

Have you ever been in a deadly earthquake? In 2013, the people of the Philippines experienced one. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake that affected around 43,000 people with 2,211 aftershocks that ended up killing a total of 185 people. Earthquakes are known as one of the most dangerous natural disasters. This horrific event happened October 15th, 2013. The earthquake hit hardest in the central Philippines, it was reported to be caused by the East Bohol Fault. People act in a response to a natural disaster by gathering resources, spreading word, and government aid.

The waves were still high at 10 feet. The power started going out when the storm was about 40 miles from land and 1.4 million people were without power (Provenzo JR. & Provenzo, 2002). It slammed into the Bahamas at 120 mph. Where buildings were toppled, bungalows out from their roots, and luxury hotels only had broken winds (Longshore, 1998). Several days before it had produced a deep convection, that had high pressure (Rappaport, 1993).

Bibinot I would describe as being a serious and responsible person from the way he was being described in Section I where he was taking shelter with his son away from the storm.

By September 16th, the disturbance was steered northwest by a mid-level ridge into a region that was more favorable for development. The 84 ̊ F sea surface temperature, low wind shear, and sufficient moisture allowed the disturbance to strengthen into a hurricane before reaching the Lesser Antilles. On the night of September 17th, Hurricane Maria was upgraded to Category 3 with surface winds up to 120 mph. Maria achieved Category 5 as it approached Dominica on September 18th (Moloney, 2017).

The floods started at the end of November 2010 and Cyclone Tasha a category 1 cyclone hit on Christmas Eve; they continued through till mid-January 2011. Cyclone Yasi then hit in February soon after the floods causing even more havoc to the already damaged Queensland.

the time it hit the United States on October 29, it was a Category 3 hurricane. It

Hurricane Maria made its landfall in Puerto Rico islands at the south east Costal town of Yabucoa at 11:15am BST on 09/20/2017 (mm/dd/yyyy) with a wind speed of 155mph as a category 4 hurricane knocking out power in the islands which has a population of 3.5 million. Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico islands just days after this region was hit by hurricane Irma. Hurricane Irma passed through north of Puerto Rico with a wind speed of 185 mph on 09/07/2017 (mm/dd/yyyy). Even though it did not make a landfall on Puerto Rico Hurricane Irma made significant damage by pushing the island in to darkness without power and agricultural loss of over $45 million.