Hurricane Diane and Hurricane Jose are two very different hurricanes. They have the same background, although they are sixty-two years apart. They both came after major hurricanes, Diane came after Connie, and Jose came after Irma. Both hurricanes impacted the East Coast. They also both came from the Atlantic! Nonetheless, while they each came after major hurricanes, one did less damage than the other. Hurricane Diane landed in North Carolina. It went up the East Coast and impacted all the states along the waters. It caused major problems, including major flooding in North Carolina. It impacted the Blue Ridge Mountains and created an orographic life, which means the air was forced to go up and when cooling down created rain, this can also cause clouds to separate, humidity to weaken and stop precipitation. The max precipitation for this hurricane was at 19.75” in Westfield Massachusetts. It is considered to be the wettest storm New England has ever seen. …show more content…
Hurricane Diane was formed on August eight ninety fifty-five to August twenty-third ninety fifty-five.
Wind speed picked up to a high of 105 miles per hour, and in Roanoke Virginia, it was 62 miles per hour. The storm surge, which is flooding from the ocean, destroyed houses, roads, and destroyed seawalls in North Carolina post-Hurricane Connie which happened a few days prior. Inland flooding was even worse than the storm surge. The Poconos and the Delaware River were hit the worst in history, the Broadhead creek was engulfed in water and killed thirty-seven people, and the Connecticut river raised to 30.6 feet! Bridges were damaged during the storm, along with 813 houses destroyed while another 14,000 were damaged. Hurricane Diane did severe damage to the East Coast and killed at least 183 people, injured 7,000, and cost one billion dollars worth of
damage. Hurricane Jose came right after hurricane Irma. Hurricane Jose compared to hurricane Diane, did not even do a significant amount of damage. It is the longest hurricane that lived in the Atlantic since Hurricane Nadine. The Leeward Islands prepared for a major impact but thankfully the center did not even get close to the islands. The Bahamas was evacuated on some particular islands and got hit with 46 miles per hour wind speed and 1.43 inches of rain. Jose flooded some of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, Ocean City in Maryland, Sussex County in Delaware, and North Wildwood in New Jersey. The waves from Jose caused corrosion on the beach on Jersey Shore. Only one person passed away from hurricane Jose, no one was injured and it caused little damage. Comparing hurricane Jose and hurricane Diane is a bad comparison. Hurricane Diane had a greater extent of damage and a stronger hurricane. Jose never hit land, it did not kill nearly anyone, it did not bring as much rainfall or wind, and it did not cause many problems. However, hurricane Jose did impact most of the East Coast just like hurricane Diane did. In the long run, Hurricane Diane did a bigger extent of damage than Jose, which is because Jose missed land, which is a marvelous doing.
In James S. Hirsch’s book about Rubin "Hurricane" Cater, Hurricane, the author describes how Carter was wrongfully imprisoned and how he managed to become free. Hirsch tells about the nearly impossible battle for Carter and his friend John Artis for freedom and justice. Both, Carter and Artis, were convicted of a triple homicide, and both were innocent.
In 1992, hurricane Andrew was a category four hurricane and said to be one of the worst natural disasters to happen in the United States at the time. It’s winds surpassed 160 miles per hour and caused damage to over 125,000 homes within 400 square miles. Hurricane Andrew left approximately 175,000 families and children temporarily homeless.
Hurricane Season, directed by Tim Story, follows a high school basketball coach named Al Collins, played by Forest Whitaker, who builds a team of players around the Louisiana area that were affected by the devastating Hurricane Katrina, and leads them to a state championship. On the way, Coach Collins encounters many obstacles, such as where to play, trying to recruit players and keeping them from joining other teams, and also negative influences in the locker room. All of these issues they faced kept them motivated and helped the team become more of a cohesive unit and winners.
A lot of homes, businesses, and other places were destroyed. Atlantic city homes were flooded. Many people, not just in New Jersey, had no power for days to weeks. The storms surge made it all the way past the board walk. Hoboken, New Jersey was hit hard. Their homes, businesses, and transportation ways and means were destroyed. Winds there were counter-clockwise making it worse for Hoboken. A lot of New York was hit too. They also had no power for long periods of time. Many of their homes and etc. were destroyed during the storm.
Its expected that the storm will produce an additional three to six inches of rainfall across southwestern Louisiana, western Tennessee and Kentucky through Friday. Total rainfall could reach up to 10 inches in isolated areas, bringing an increased risk of flash flooding. The outer bands of the storm will further affect parts of the central and eastern Gulf States, bringing about three to six inches of rainfall, according to the National Hurricane Center. Portions of the Tennessee Valley, Ohio Valley and southern mid-Atlantic will see two to four inches of rain through Saturday.
Hurricane Camille was an extraordinary show of power by Mother Nature and proved that through the scars it left on the extremely long and unordinary path is took through the Eastern portion of the United States. From the complete destruction where the storm took land to the absolutely unimaginable floods that carried through the hills and valleys of the Virginias, Camille proved to be one of the most unique, interesting, prevailing, and unforgettable hurricanes and weather extravaganzas ever to take place.
On August 24th, 1992 in the state of Florida, complete destruction was the end result of Hurricane Andrew. A Hurricane that began in the Atlantic ocean at 20mph. That is almost twice the strength that normal hurricanes begin at. The peak strength of Hurricane Andrew was so strong that devices were not able to measure the winds. An approximation of the force of the winds was said to be up to 200mph. Andrew destroyed about 28,000 homes, damaged 100,000 homes and left 250,000 people homeless along with 30 billion dollars in damage and almost 30 deaths. Hurricane Andrew did not end its devastation in Florida, soon it went to Louisiana causing more damage. (Fig.1)
Early in the morning on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic. Levee breaches led to massive flooding, and many people charged that the federal government was slow
With the winds and waters sweeping away taking away people’s lives and property the storm made it to be one of the costliest in the history of America. According to FEMA:
Hurricanes are born over the warm waters of tropical oceans and are formed by a low-pressure system caused by the heating of water. The heat causes the air to rise and form lower pressures in a feedback loop, making the hurricane stronger. Heavy rain results from a condensation of water and strong winds develop from warm air rushing to the eye of the hurricane. Essentially, greater storms and winds occur when the hurricane feeds of the rising temperature of the water. In addition, researchers studied disturbances and intense thunderstorms in the atmosphere over Western Africa and believe they are partly to blame for extreme hurricanes affecting the United States and Canada. While these are all the main ingredients of a perfectly natural process, they were not the primary causes of the damage done by Hurricane
On August 29, 2005, the third strongest and biggest hurricane ever recorded in American history hit the Gulf Coast at eight o’clock a.m. The interaction between a tropical depression and a tropical wave created a tropical storm later referred to as Hurricane Katrina (FAQS, 2013). Forming over the Bahamas, Hurricane Katrina gradually strengthened as it moved closer and closer to the Gulf of Mexico. Recorded on August 28th, 2005, Katrina jumped from a category three storm to a category five storm with maximum sustained winds up to 160 miles per hour. Although other hurricanes, such as Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Wilma, exceeded Katrina, this dominant storm was classified as the fourth most intense hurricane based its pressure capacity. Once Hurricane Katrina hit land, it was pronounced as a category four storm moving slowly. While people thought that the slow speed of this storm prevented trauma, records show that Katrina did more damage than any fast-moving storm could have ever achieved (Solanki, 2013). Katrina produced abundant debris. The debris was in such large quantity that if it was stacked together on a football field, the rubble would reach the elevation of ten and a half miles. The size of Katrina also caused 90,000 square miles to be affected. Once proclaimed a category three storm, Hurricane Katrina slowed to the speed of 155 miles per hour. At this point in time, Katrina proved to be the sixth most prevailing hurricane traced in history. (Solanki, 2013). Several different aspects of life were impacted by Hurricane Katrina such as availability of gasoline, economic issues, and the ability to have an adequate supply of drinking water (Solanki, 2013). Hurricane Katrina was a large storm ...
Hurricanes are powerful and destructive storms that involve great rain and wind. The United States of America has dealt with many hurricanes that have cost a great amount of damage. However, there is one hurricane that happened in 2005 that stands out among the others, Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States, a category 5 on the Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale. An estimated 1836 people died because of the hurricane and the floodings that happened after (Zimmermann 1). Katrina initially beg...
In the hurricane the mixture of the water and winds can be extremely damaging. The winds are extremely dangerous and usually don’t go faster than about 75 miles per hour but have been documented to go as fast as 85 miles per hour. Due to the fact that hurricanes need water to survive they cannot go too far on land, but that does not stop them from causing billions of dollars in damages. Hurricanes are so dangerous that they were listed number 1 on the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Hazard and Disasters list.
...ve damage occurred in New England where federal disaster areas were declared for seven counties in Massachusetts, five in Maine, and one in New Hampshire. Off Staten Island, two men were drowned when their boat capsized. Other fatalities occurred when a man fishing from a bridge was either blown or swept off in New York and a fisherman was swept off the rocks at Narrangansett, RI by heavy surf. Offshore, six lives were lost when the Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat, sank. Total damage in the Halloween Storm, as it came to be known because of its date, was in the hundreds of millions of dollars.”