The Impact of Typhoon Nina

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Picture yourself going about your regular day, on your home after work and you hear that there’s a storm brewing. There’s still dinner to prepare, get the family fed, kids homework done and maybe some TV time after before bed. Watching the news you see that the storm was upgraded to a tropical depression, you can expect high winds and rain. After hearing this you decide to batten down the hatches so to speak, you close your shutters, get flashlights and maybe shutoff your gas. Feeling sufficiently prepared you go bed satisfied.
Later that night you’re awakened by what you can only describe a roaring sound and you realize that the storm sounds worse, you turn on the TV and the storm’s been upgraded to a tropical storm and now you can expect winds 40 mph winds and it’s only going to get worse. Now picture that it’s 1975 and you live in the Henan Province, where the housing and infrastructure aren’t up to the task that nature has set for them. There are houses today in many developed countries that cannot withstand a hurricane or a typhoon. In 1975 the Chinese and Taiwanese were overwhelmed by nature.
Most people don’t realize that typhoon’s and hurricanes are basically tropical cyclones. Our textbook defines a tropical cyclone as a “large thunderstorm complexes rotating around an area of low pressure that has formed over warm tropical or subtropical ocean water.” (Keller 334) They are named based on strength and location. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA a "hurricanes are located in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E) and a typhoon is located in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline.”
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