natural disasters are unforeseen,fast and deadly events that affect large groups of people.scientists cannot precisely predict the location,duration and damage of a disaster such as a hurricane.using the example of a hurricane,explain how scientists might gather data,why the data might be limited,and how public warnings might not work well.
A plane is flying over the devastated region around Jamaica after Hurricane Ivan. It will drop supplies of food and clothing to the people stranded below. The plane is flying at 20 m/s horizontally and is at a height of 2 km from the ground. What distance from the island does the pilot have to release the supplies so that they land on the island?
Ok so I was sitting in class today (middle school history is so boring) and I took out a piece of paper and just started writing, not with the intent of it becoming anything. It can work as part of an alternate subplot of one of the novels im working on writing although i think it would work well a few paragraphs into the story. Please give any opinions.
…And thats when I saw it, alone in the field like a single shining star in the dark winter sky, there was a light, only bright as a flashlight but illuminating the dark surroundings. Something about this light i remembered, its fermiliar glow bouncing off the grass nearby. I don’t know what it was that made me curious, but with every step I grew nearer to the light until I couldn’t have been more than ten feet away and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get my feet to move. I fell over, forwards, clutching my photo in my hand, my other outstretched fingers grasping at my necklace. I could hear voices coming closer. I felt the ground slip out from under me and fell again, head over heels rolling like a log going down a mountain. The next thing I knew I was on a dirt floor, lit by a single candle on the dusty ground. It was lifelessly dark and even with a blanked wrapped around me I was chilly. I sat up, my necklace imprinting the locket’s outline into my chest. I stood up, the world around me spiining like some sort of tornado, violently sucking the remains of the few happy memories I had left…
I don’t want to worry about my house being destroyed during hurricane season.
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
According to this, global hurricane activity is at a thirty year low. I admit I am just a dumb redneck, so I wanted all you self proclaimed climate surgeons to help me. You people keep telling us that worldwide, hurricane activity has increased, even though it has decreased to a whisper here in the Atlantic.
Go ahead, explain this one away…
Another point for the skeptics camp for not using a blog.
Starbuck, honestly I have trouble keeping up with these people and their "science."
Dr. Al Gore and his hockey stick graph was the "in" thing last decade.
After Katrina, they warned of more and more class 5 hurricanes.
Now they claim, that even with the poles defrosting, which should logically mean more rain, we will have another dust bowl era?
And they wonder why they are not taken seriously?
Less hurricanes is, less hurricanes.
Which contradicts what these climate scientists have been saying.
And how can these people look into their crystal balls and prognosticate 50 years into the future, when they could not see this coming?
By "you people" I am referring to, dana 1981, anarticice, paul, and any other self proclaimed climate surgeons who regularly post on this forum. They love to remind me that I am just being provincial, and not looking at the world as a whole.
I eagerly await their response to this contradiction.
i remember going out surfing that day… it was really calm and the waves were huge and glassy..i just dont remember which hurricane/tropical storm it was
im 26 years old and i am a registered male nurse. i would like to relocate from columbus, ohio to west palm beach, florida. i would like to know what there is to do for fun down there? are the beaches, schools, hospitals, and city itself clean, nice, and safe? i would like to buy a home no more than 3 miles away from the ocean. i am planning on spending about 5,000 on the home and will put in hurricane shutters and everything if not already. would i be ok on my own for awhile until i have a wife and family? please tell me everything you know and make your awnser is as detailed as possible. thanks!
Amazing video of several strong tornadoes in Pawnee to Osage County, OK near dusk on May 1, 2008. Rare video of destructive tornadoes, as storm chasers were calling in the reports to emergency managers. The Storm Chasers were TornadoVideos.net stream unit 1, including Matt CHatelain, Daniel Betten, Curtis McDonald, and Matt Van Every. Check out TornadoVideos.net for live streaming video!
Doe anybody know where I can get some FREE DOWNLOADABLE Hurricane Katrina storm footage?
It has to be Windows Movie Maker Compatable!!
I need it for a movie I’m making.
Me my parents, and my older brother live in Texas and we know Hurricane Dean may be hitting our area so we are going shopping tommorow for supplies and food. What do we need to get? There are 4 people. So yeah it would help help if you would post a link our sompthing. Thanks for you help 
Do you or have you volunteered with Red Cross Disaster Relief?
Are they good stewards of the donated dollar?
Have a story to tell?
Do you know where the donated dollar goes? How it is spent / accounted for?
How much is wasted and blamed on "scam"?
How much do the Executives on the local level make? (keep in mind non-profit) as well as "perks"?
Search redcross.org/jobs for more direct info.
On her bad days
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/data/images/news/categories/H/HURRICANE%20DEVASTATION%20copy.jpg
On her good days
http://www.mcgill.ca/files/researchoffice/GaultNatureReserve.jpg
She’s a Fox, right?
What’s the best website to find info/watch this hurricane/tropical depression/tropical storm? Not a television channel, just website.
I’ve lived here for 7 years and I still don’t know >.< hah
There were lots of (supposed) reasons why the price of oil recently rose to record levels — hurricane season approaching, instability in the Middle East, disruptions with the Alaskan supply, etc, etc.
However, in the recent days, the price of oil has suddenly dropped 25%-30%. What happened to generate that large price change? What are the explainable causes?
Hurricane Ike slams Galveston, Texas. Watch the huge waves hit the 17 foot seawall and shoot up 100 feet in the air. See two guys on bikes kiss the road when a wave hit’s the seawall.
Pepita Gonzalez lied to 20 million girls, women and too-curious men every day. It was okay because she lied to herself too, and she got paid to do it.
It was 2:15 in the morning and Pepita stared at her desktop, guzzling her coffee and savoring the remaining moments of sanity before the emails would start pouring in.
This week, her desktop featured a tornado, the funnel looming over the photographer like a drunk, abusive parent. Pepita heard that the photographer, who died moments after snapping the picture, had dreamed of becoming famous for his weather photography. His tragically romantic death resulted in his dream coming true.
Pepita loved this story, even though she knew it was partially untrue.
Around the tornado curled a picket fence, like white railroad tracks navigating through the debris. It had been taken directly from a video game ad that Pepita’s design agency had designed.
Still, she told the story of the twister’s photographer to her friends. Just because the fence wasn’t real didn’t mean the story was false. To her, it was like a movie: just because the characters were fake didn’t mean she couldn’t feel the emotions of the story.
An incoming email made the inbox flash at the bottom of the funnel cloud. Then there were three new emails. Four. Pepita clicked open her mailbox, covering up the twister.
There were six high-priority emails, each with a single attachment: a high-res photo of a gorgeous underwear model. Gorgeous, covered with acne and moles, staring with vacant eyes and posing with protruding ribs. Pepita had a lot of work to do…
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If you’re interested in more, you can read the rest here:
http://www.worthyofpublishing.com/chapter.asp?chapter_ID=9395
If you aren’t interested - tell me why!
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If you read the rest, let me know what you think. Were any parts confusing? Did you have to re-read anything a few times to figure out the meaning? Do you have any questions about it, or personal insight on the subject?
Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, Lynci, this is an edit of the first draft - the previous one was a little meandering and unfocused… more of an exercise… and this one was rewritten to focus more on a point.
It feels more like a short-story to me, than a full story… but now that I think about it, I could develop her character and throw in some conflict. I mean, she totally broke the law, sending out the pics before retouching them… what would happen if she got caught? Or worse, what if the designer sent the wrong files to the printers, and all of the finals ended up in the magazines and the billboards? Hmmmmm…. Possibilities….
In the fall of 2004 the price of tomatoes dramatically increased. Which of the following could have caused this change?
A. Hurricanes during the late summer damaged the Florida crop, shifting supply left.
B. A reduction in tariffs of tomatoes from Central American, shifting supply right.
C. A news report stating that a pesticide used on tomatoes might cause cancer, shifting the demand to the right.
D. Advertising for catsup increased demand for catsup, shifting the demand curve to the left.
How does the United States’ Federal System affect disaster relief efforts? This pertains especially to Hurricane Katrina in 2004.
Why are polar orbiting satellites a poor choice for monitoring hurricane development?
a.Resolution: the data from the satellites has poor resolution because the satellites are so far from the surface
b.Radiation data from the satellites is at wavelengths that give no useful information for weather
c.The satellite passes over the region of interest only once or twice a day
d.Interference from solar radiation contaminates the satellite signal during the day.
April 3, 1974 This is a sound-recording of the F5 tornado that hit Xenia, Ohio in 1974. The video feaures various pictures of the tornado. The last picture was a frame of a film I done myself. The recording was originally done by Mr. Brokeshoulder near the corner of W. Church St and N. West St near the Xenia Foundry in an apartment building that no longer exists due to it’s destruction by the tornado. It is a copy of a cassette recording made by Mr. Brokeshoulder, a Native American resident …
Controlling an F5 tornado in Tornado Jockey.
We want to take our kids to Disney in September, but I noticed that Sept. is peak hurricane season. When you stayed there in Sept., how was the weather? I see that it is one of the slowest times of year. Would you recommend it?
Christy DiStefano - a talented USA junior jumper; ranked 4th on the 2009 USEF Bates Equitation Ranking and winner of the 2009 Devon Horse Show’s prestigious Ronnie Mutch Equitation Championship is training Tornado. Tornado is born May 17th 2002 and a EU Import. Sire is CORONADO the son of Corrado I and grandson of COR DE LA BRYERE often just called “cord”. In the most recent edition of the French breeding bible, Monneron 2007-2008 (www.monneron.com ) Bernard le Courtois has gone through the …