What Keeps Me Awake At Night

Living in Florida there are many things to be worried about from alligators, hot heat, and the most important hurricanes. The first hurricane I experienced was in the first two months of me living in Florida. I moved here from New York and I had no idea what to expect when I heard that a hurricane was coming. It was like nothing I had experienced before, seeing a tree pulled from the ground by only water and wind was a devastating experience that I was something I did not expect to see. After the hurricane, my dad went to the store and bought as much; canned food, water bottles, candles, flashlights and batteries he could find to make sure that just in case another hurricane hit we would be prepared. After the hurricane, I started to wonder about better ways on how to prepare for another hurricane. Especially, living in Florida there are

When was the last time you or your family were affected by the path of a hurricane? How was your experience? Some hurricanes can leave devastation, but it can be more dangerous if you don’t prepare and expose your family to the hazards during the landfall and aftermath. To be fully prepared in the event of a and have ways of staying informed and keep family entertained to avoid anxiety hurricane you must have an emergency evacuation plan. Gather essential supplies, protect one’s home, and have ways of staying informed and keep the family entertained to avoid anxiety or panic attacks.

Is it worth risking your life to protect your belongings and property when a Category 5 hurricane is barreling towards your city? Is it right to disregard reports about a storm because in past experiences the news has been wrong? In Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, a man named Zeitoun decides to let his family evacuate New Orleans without him so that he can stay behind and protect his several homes, business, and personal belongings from Category 5 hurricane Katrina. Once the hurricane passes, and he survives, the city turns into chaos. The streets turn violent and the great city turns into a third world country. The power goes out for weeks, and there is no water. The breakdown of all authority gets him arrested and he is soon thrown behind bars. Zeitoun should have evacuated New Orleans with his family for not only did he put his business in front of them, but also his shortsightedness almost left his children without a father. Zeitoun’s belongings and business items are all replaceable, but a father is not.

Kennedy continues his appeal to emotion with a weaker, yet still successful attempt. Around election time, seemingly all American’s reveal their inner-patriot, understanding this Kennedy speaks to that inner patriot. Speaking of foreign affairs, he says, “…let every other power know that this Hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.”(3) This appeal is successful, as speaking of the Hemisphere as a whole represents unity, and also reaches out to the pride within the audience, stating that Americans shall remain in power of all they have worked so hard to obtain.

John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You” left a respected impact on the world as he used multiple rhetorical devices in order to provoke the audience’s feelings, convince of his character, and test their logic.

Did you know that a hurricane can last up to three weeks? It is vital to be prepared for those three weeks. One of the deadliest hurricanes ever was known as the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, also known as the Great Storm of 1900. The hurricane devastated the foundations of buildings and home. The hurricane caused between 6000 to 1200 casualties. In order to survive these natural disasters, you must stay ahead and be composed for the storm. There are a variety of procedures the nation and individuals can use to prepare for a hurricane. Additionally, hurricanes disastrous effects on urban areas and the effect.

In Jon Kyl’s article “Unready for This Attack”, he argues that the United States has the means necessary to protect itself from an EMP attack, but is staying vulnerable. One of Kyl’s main points is that the U.S. has become a technological powerhouse and would be, in many ways, helpless without electricity. He also states that equipment mainly effected by an EMP are produced in countries overseas, making them hard to replace in the event of an attack. Another article that raises some great points is Brian Kennedy’s article “ The (Terrorist) Wolf Is at the Door.”

Throughout the book, there is a feeling of distrust with the narrators, because, like many others, they felt as if they had been betrayed and that the levees were not properly maintained. The authors back this theory with the 1924 incident when levees were blown up to flood the black neighborhoods, to save the predominately white ones. I do feel that instead of interviewing friends and relatives of co-author Keith Ferdinand, others should have been used to make it less of a personalized book for a group of individuals. I also feel that the authors should have provided the questions asked by the interviewer, leaving the book in it’s original transcription. For me personality, this was an excellent book and was an easy read, due to the fact that it flowed so well. You can place yourself in the shoes of each narrator and feel what they felt.as they went through this trying time in their life. The older narrators give the reader a lot of their lives and you really see their struggles to come up during a time of segregation and racism. These were educated individuals who came from average backgrounds. Through the eyes of the narrators you can visualize the neighborhoods they grew up in, you get a glimpse of what their family life was, and briefly go through Katrina with them. In the “Coming of Age” section you see life from the perspective of the youth in Katrina. Before Katrina these young men were plagued with a life of violence

When Joseph Hutson, father of three and Captain at Wentzville Fire Protection District, first heard of the storm forming in the Atlantic Ocean in late August of 2005, he was unconcerned with the storm and assumed it would be like any other tropical storm that hit the United States. According to Willie Drye’s Article in the National Geographic, The National Hurricane Center issued its first warning of the tropical system’s formation on August 23, 2005 around 5 p.m., and it did not cause much commotion or concern. The hurricane fluctuated in size until August 28, 2005 around 11 a.m., when it was classified as one of the largest and strongest hurricanes ever in the Atlantic (Drye). “I never thought the impact would be that significant. I assumed

It felt like days had gone by before they actually started to go at work. By this time it seemed like the whole neighborhood was around my house watching as it took its last breaths. The yellow jackets finally climbed onto the enormous ladder that led to the rooftop, I heard a loud noise thinking it was the storm coming back to finish what it had started. Though it was just a chainsaw that the firefighters were using to cut open holes in my roof. My mom stared in horror, trying to keep it together, but a few tears slipping on her cheek as she watched her house crumble down right in front of her.

Kennedy enumerates how America should obtain peace with nations, by warning them of the obstacles that could potentially occur in the future. His hopeful tone helps the audience acquire a sense of serenity by reciting that both

One impact is that there would be less industries. There wouldn’t be enough food being produced and enough food to go around for everyone to live. In the book

“If I would have known that this storm was coming that bad, I would have left,” she said in a laughing manner. As she continued to speak, she talked about how they prepared for Hurricane Andrew. “We went out and brought cold cuts, flashlights, candles, we even tied down everything on our back porch and whatever we could not tie down, went in our shed. I thought we prepared more than enough, but we didn’t. We prepared just enough.” She explained how the storm was furious, how it was very powerful and dangerous. When I asked Mrs. Brown was there any damage done to her house, she said yes. “Our big avocado tree that has been there for almost 25 years, fell and hit our back porch and or kitchen window cracked. Other than that, everything else was

There was a category 4 hurricane that hit towns such as Houston and Rockport Texas on friday of August 25, which went on through september 3, 2017. This is one of the worst hurricanes since 2005. This hurricane really affected people on the saturday. On the southwest of Houston a man named Jamie Ellie said he was watching a movie about 1:00am, when a tornado swept through and the doors flew open, he had to take refuge with his family in a bedroom closet. In some towns such as Houston rainfall was estimated to be about 50-60 inches, which is enough to cover signs on the road. When this hurricane swept through towns the roads were completely empty, people had to take shelter immediately. Even if people tried to escape the hurricane after

understand the stages that hurricanes go through to get to be so fierce and devastating to get the strength to kill that many people.