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    incredible. It stretches for less than 300 km, yet the range of topography, vegetation, wildlife is remarkable: indigenous temperature forest, pine plantations and ‘fynbos’ (thick bush), mountains running alongside rocky coves and beaches, gorges, rivers, lagoons and mountain passes. While tourism may have taken over much of the coast, and tree plantations for commercial use may have taken their toll on the forest and

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    dollars in damages. The early warnings is what helped save many lives. August 30, 1942 one skirted the coast with 100 mile an hour winds which traveled up to the Edwards Plateau causing 26 million dollars in crop damage. We aren’t done yet, a tropical storm came ashore the Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Bay leaving behind One million dollars in damages. The year 1943 has more destruction from a hurricane on July 27th. As it moved across the Bolivar Peninsula with wind gusts at 104 mph, it dropped 17

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    “The Snow-Storm” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the reader is able to recognize opportunities of personification. Throughout the poem, Emerson personifies the storm giving the reader a sense of ever-realistic perceptions. Emerson makes it a habit in personifying the actions of the storm, transforming it into a conscious being. As the reader goes on, there is a sudden recognizable shift between the two stanzas. The first idealizing the storm in a royal embrace, the second standardizing the storm into an ordinary

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    natural disaster. Identify and Characterize the Hazards Hazards affecting Watertown Category of Hazards Type of Hazards Ranking Atmospheric Extreme Temperatures, winter storms, tornadoes 1 Hydrologic Flooding, droughts 2 Geologic Earthquake, landslides 3 Extreme Temperatures Extreme cold will result in freezing rivers and ice jams. When these thaw out it will result in flooding. No matter where the freezing takes place, the after effect will always cause flooding which will have adverse effects

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    Who is this man that the storms obey him? At this point in the Gospel of Mark we have followed Jesus in other miracles such as healing Peter’s mother-in-law, healing a man with an unclean spirit, and cleansing a man of leprosy along with other miracles. August 28th 2005, Louisiana and Mississippi were affected by hurricane Katrina. 80 percent of New Orleans along with parishes close by were flooded not receding back for weeks. Evacuation was necessary for the people of New Orleans. The superdome

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    Winter storms are destructive and dangerous weather events which may include snow, freezing rain, ice, high winds, and/or temperatures that drop below normal. They have potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life. The major problems that winter storms cause are power outages and traffic accidents. There is a very high probability that Klamath County will be negatively affected by at least one winter storm condition on an annual basis. Dust storms occur most frequently

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    Hurricane Matthew

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    Hurricanes form over warm, tropical oceans and are very powerful storms. These type of storms are actually the most violent on the Earth. For example, of these powerful and destructive storms was Hurricane Matthew. Hurricane Matthew occurred from September 28th through October 9th, 2016, and affected the Caribbean and Southeast U.S. Hurricanes, being the powerful and violent storms they are, can cause lots of destruction to cities, states, and/or countries. To begin with, there are many causes

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    Once upon a time there was a little village in Germany named Leipzig. The village was located in the middle of a forest called the Fyteia Forest. This was at the beginning of time, when there were no storms. There were two people that everyone knew very well, Keravno and Vronti, their names were decided by destiny. Keravno was a very beautiful young woman with blond hair and bright blue eyes. Vronti was very muscular, not much older than Keravno, had brown hair and green eyes. They were in

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    damage.[42] The storm spawned two EF1 tornadoes in the state. The first, with a 4.83 mi (7.77 km) path, knocked down or broke thousands of trees in Liberty County, some of which fell onto homes. The other struck

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    are both personal and collective in regards to black Americans. In part one of Native Guard, the poem “Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971” is set after a severe snow storm falls upon the place where Trethewey lived in her youth. Much of the poem is structured by a contrast between the inside of a physical house and the icy environment outside, as evident in stanza two and three: “the storm… drives us inside / for days, power lines down, food rotting / in the refrigerator, while outside the landscape glistens

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