A day that started out so beautiful so turned disastrous from the shock of a major F4 tornado. March of 2012 will always be in my memory for it was one of the scariest and most reassuring days of my life.Greg show me that he would never leave me. He taught me that he would always love me and would be with me. I was lost but I will never lose hope in Greg’s love again. Before the tornado, all of the sirens are blaring and all of the civilians are running to the safest building in town. Limestone County, Alabama is the home of an enormous Catholic Church that is the perfect destination for the townspeople this day, including Greg and I. The church stands 262 feet high and has a massive basement to deliver shelter for the community. It is a …show more content…
sturdy, stone church that has a very big capacity to help provide for the 88,845 people. However, since the population is so high, it is obvious that some people are not going to find sanction from this storm in this building. Everyone is frantically rushing because first come, first serve. As Greg and I are running with the crowd, its hard for me to recognize my owner and keep up. I look up at the figure for reassurance and it is not Greg. In fact, Greg is no where in sight. Starting to panic, I begin barking an yelping but the crowed pushes me out of the wave of people. I catch on to his scent and race to his side where he acknowledges me and rubs my head. We are running together side by side when suddenly I feel a sharp pain in my rear leg and hip. I am being stepped on and kicked and cannot continue, all I do is lay on the ground under the stampede. Greg releases my absence and begins to turn around and fight through the crowd for me but gets sucked back into the flow. I no longer see him, I only hear the fading calls of my name, “Coco,” he repeats, “Coco!” People are disappearing, Greg is gone, and I am hurt. As the tornado is approaching, I lost all signs of Greg.
There is not a person in sight and I am separated from my beloved for the first time in our three years together. I gain the strength to stand despite that I have no strength left in my back legs. Hopelessly, I wobble to the church to scratch on the door. No answer. i hear a familiar voice that is trying to escape but they will not let him out. Again, I limp to a large house with many voices and pound against the door with my front claws. No answer. The tornado is approaching and I have no other options or ideas. I need to find shelter and I have limited moving capability. The only choice available to me is to go the place that is familiar to me. I begin to waddle as fast as I physically can because I know the tornado is drawing nearer from behind me and people are already screaming. I squeeze through the doggy door but my hind legs loose all feeling. Army crawling, I reach my foam pad and lay with a sick feeling throughout. The breeze picks up and the tree branches and snapping outside the window. I hear the wind turning and swirling when the wall collapses to my left and crushes my crippled legs. Everything is falling around me and I become trapped in a small dark area. I can't sleep considering how shaken I am so I rest my weary head and cry to myself. The tornado is over but I am afraid no one will find
me. After the storm. I hear Greg yell my name. The minute my owner steps foot on the ground he screams at the top of his lungs without caring what the others will think, “Coco!” Since my house is quite far from the church, I hear only the cry faintly. I began barking, but it realize the hope of him hearing me in this tunnel is small. I can’t move to get out and cannot bark loud enough for anyone to hear me, so I lay and wait. I hear several of the rescue men talking but none of them are Greg. However, I bark in the hope of them digging me out. I hear them helping ur neighbors out from the basement next door and I continue barking but they don’t seem to be noticing. Their three-year-old caught, Londyn, says, “ I hear barking coming from the Jensen’s house. I think its Coco. We need to get her out.” The rescue men start digging and I keep barking so they can find me. They finally remove the wall that was on my legs and drag me out using my foam pad. To exhausted to move, I lay on my pink pad in front of what’s left of my house and watch for Greg to wander over. While my eyes were drifting, I hear someone behind me say, “Coco? Coco, is that you?” I turn around to find Greg smiling. He then utters with joy, “I’m so glad that you are okay. I was so worried about you.” Greg and I sat in that same spot for the rest of the day hugging and cuddling. I was lost but I will never lose hope in Greg’s love again.When I was beginning to have doubts, Greg had ben frantically looking form me. I was worried that he had forgotten about me but now I know that he would never intentionally leave me. After that day, Greg has never left my side, and we don’t plan to be separated ever again. Greg loves me and and I will never lose hope in Greg’s love.
The church's architecture over all is simple. It is 24 by 34 square feet and set on a stone wall. It is a frontier style cabin and is made from hand hewn logs, which are notched at each end so that they fit together snugly at the corners. The roof is shingled...
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What is a tornado? A tornado is “a rapidly rotating vortex or funnel of air extending groundward from a cumulonimbus cloud.” (Haddow et al) Tornadoes produce destructive winds that can destroy everything that comes in its path. Meteorologists use the speed of the winds to classify the strength of tornadoes on the Fujita-Pearson scale. The weakest tornadoes, F0, have wind speeds from 65-85 miles per hour, all the way to an F5 tornado, with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour.
It was the day of April 13, 2000. I woke up at exactly 12 o’clock because my boyfriend was to pick me up at 1 like we planned the night before. The day looked quite nice, but I was in a fowl mood. I got into a car accident the night before and had a huge argument with my parents about the car. I finally dragged myself into the shower and got ready in half an hour. Then I went downstairs, sat on my couch, and repeatedly told myself the day would hopefully turn out better than last night. At around 1:15, my boyfriend came to pick me up. We took the 5 freeway to the 57 since it was the only way I knew how to get there. As we approached the 134 freeway, my girlfriend veered to the right, taking the 210 which was wrong way and got us lost. So, we exited the freeway and got back on the right track. Then finally, before long, we reached Norton Simon.
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About a week later a tornado razed a better part of North Houston. It brought rain. It brought hail. It upended cars; it flooded houses. And in its trail it left fallen branches and trees, and removed, in whole, one tiny tomato-onion-potato-and-green-bean garden located behind my garage.
Tornadoes are powerful and destructive phenomena created in strong thunderstorms. Tornadoes are most common in the United States, and in the U.S., they are common in an area called Tornado Alley. Every year, tornadoes wreak havoc on the countryside, towns, and even cities. The deadliest tornado in U.S. history crossed over three states, destroyed 15,000 homes, and killed almost 700 people. There are only a couple of people on record that claim to have been in and seen the center of a tornado and lived. Tornadoes even have their own rating scale, based on their wind and damage level.Tornadoes are powerful vortexes created in thunderstorms, are common in the U.S., have its own rating scale, have only been seen on the inside a few times, have the potential to demolish towns, and can take lives.
When a tornado forms or passes over a water surface, it is termed a waterspout. Like tornadoes, they may assume many shapes and often occur in series or families. Measurements of their forward speeds are scarce, but estimates vary from a few kilometers an hour to as high as 64 to 80 kilometers per hour. Contrary to popular opinion, a waterspout does not "suck up" water to great heights; though it may lift the water level a few meters. The main visible cloud consists mostly of freshwater clouds produced by condensation of water vapor; however, a sheath of spray often rotates around the lower portion of the vortex tube. Thousands of vacationers and several scientists witnessed one of the largest and most famous waterspouts, observed near Massachusetts on Aug. 19, 1896. Its height was estimated to be 1,095 meters and its width 256 meters at the crest, 43 meters at center, and 73 meters at the base. The spray surrounding the vortex tube near the water surface was about 200 meters wide and 120 meters high. The spout lasted 35 minutes, disappearing and reappearing three times. Most waterspouts are smaller, with much shorter lives. This exceptional spout is an example of one that apparently was spawned by thunderstorm-squall conditions, similar to those that produce tornadoes over land. There are few authentic cases of large ships ever being destroyed by a spout, although spouts are a dangerous hazard to small vessels. A few intense waterspouts have caused deaths when they moved inland over populated areas.
For centuries, tornadoes have been a destructive force of nature that possesses the power to destroy cities and take people’s lives. Recently, a new epidemic of tornadoes has been ravaging America which draws the question, is global warming to blame? With up to 300 mile per hour winds and damage paths can go up to one mile wide and 50 miles long, they truly are Mother Nature’s weapon of mass destruction.
Picture this, you laying on top of you car as you are being violently slung down your street, which was once dry and calm and is now wet and foreign, at an extremely rapid pace. You can’t find your family and all you can do is hope that they haven’t drowned and are able to stay afloat against the violent waters that are angrily attempting to destroy everything in its path. You look around the weather is gray and it’s raining heavily. It is a struggle to breathe between the rapid rain and the violent waters which are attempting to pull you under, forever. Your house no longer exists it is broken down from the pounding waters and fast winds. That is exactly what it would be like if you were in the midst of a hurricane. After hurricanes are over the confusion is crazy, children who had loving families are now orphaned, people become homeless, and people miss certain joys such as walking due to becoming paralyzed.
Tornadoes are a very destructive piece of natural disasters that cannot be prevented and can often come with little to no warning to take shelter. Every year there are hundreds if not thousands of people that are affected by tornadoes and their aftermath. These deadly forces of nature come through areas with their damaging winds and can potentially wipe out houses off their foundation, destroy power lines, damage buildings, leave survivors with PTSD and ultimately even kill people.
The strongest winds on this planet occur inside the tornadoes. Not all whirlpools in the atmosphere are tornadoes. A funnel cloud that drops for a period of time out of the clouds overhead, or a “dust devil” pirouetting across desert sands under clear skies, are not tornadoes. The definition of a tornado involves a vortex extending from a thunderstorm and touching the ground.
A tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud. It is spawned by a thunderstorm (or sometimes as a result of a hurricane) and produced when cool air overrides a layer of warm air, forcing the warm air to rise rapidly. Tornadoes can cause a lot of damage and even deaths. The damage from a tornado is a result of the high wind velocity and wind-blown debris. Tornado season is generally March through August, although tornadoes can occur at any time of year. They tend to occur in the afternoons and evenings: over 80 percent of all tornadoes strike between noon and midnight. From 1950-1995 the total number of tornadoes in Michigan was 722, with an average of 5 deaths and 3,217 injuries (70 a year average) resulting from the storm a year.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm cloud to the earth’s surface. They are sometimes nicknamed twisters because of their shape and because of what they do. The winds in the tornadoes are usually 100mph or less. In +F4's they can exceed 250mph. They usually stay on a track of a few miles or less and are less than 100 yds. wide. For the development of tornadoes there are a few conditions required. An abundant low-level of moisture and unstable atmosphere is required not only for the tornado, but for a thunderstorm also. A “trigger”, which is a cold front or low level zone of converging winds, is needed to lift the moisture and the air. When the air rises , it becomes saturated and continue to rise higher and higher. They then form in areas where winds at all levels of the atmosphere are strong and turn clockwise with height.Some tornadoes appear as a funnel shape and some have a churning smoky look . Some contain multiple vortices , which are small individual tornadoes rotating around a common center. Some can be invisible , with only swirling dust or debris at ground level as the only indication of the tornado’s presence. Tornadoes can occur at any time of the year, and anywhere in the world. The unique geography of the US is what helps us produce some of the most violent tornadoes because of the favorable condition’s for their development . The months with the greatest amount of tornadoes are April, May and June .
A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes can produce massive destruction with wind speeds of 250 miles per hour or more. The typical tornado moves from southwest to northeast, but they have been known to move in any direction. The average forward speed of a tornado is 30 miles per hour but it may vary from stationary to 70 miles per hour. Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, they are found most frequently in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains during the spring and summer months. In an average year, 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in 80 deaths and over 1,500 injuries.