There are several different reasons African Americans decided not to evacuate during Katrina. There were income restraints, lack of knowledge in a timely fashion and race bias.…
In August of 1983 Hurricane Alicia slammed into Texas coastline causing mass destruction. The hurricane formed near Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico before hitting Texas. Hurricane Alicia was responsible for the death of 21 people, along with nearly two billion dollars in damages. Alicia was the first ever billion dollar hurricane to destroy Texas. Hurricane Alicia tore through Galveston and Houston with wind speeds of 115 miles per hour destroying parts of the cities and created at least 23 reported tornadoes to add to the damages. Nearly 750,000 lost power and over 8,000 miles of power lines was down during the storm leaving people without power for over a week. The hurricane ruined many large business and buildings and tons of residential homes. Since the damage was so detrimental, the hurricanes name was retired.…
Hurricane Andrew developed from a tropical wave that developed off the African coast on August 14,1992.…
Athlete. Born May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. In 1966, at the height of his boxing career, Carter was wrongly convicted—twice—of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. During the mid-1970s, his case became a cause celébrè for a number of civil rights leaders, politicians, and entertainers. He was ultimately exonerated, in 1985, after a United States district court judge declared the convictions to be based on racial prejudice.…
“On their march west, 6,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger and disease.” (Burnett) This statement is accurate because it states that the Cherokees were forced to get out of the land roughly because they didn’t leave at the given period of time. When they were removed they didn’t have places to go so they traveled west and around that time it was really cold since it was around December. This is the outside evidence that proves that it’s accurate, “Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands.” (Nicholson 56)…
Hurricane Harvey has affected the lives of thousands of people in southern Texas. Eight deaths have been recorded to this date, but there is a countless amount of people in need of medical attention and care. While the community itself is struggling to survive, a large percent of the population are ranchers and farmers trying to keep their livestock alive through this tragedy.…
The Joplin tornado included many details common to tornadoes and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region, but the area has recovered in its aftermath. The Joplin, Missouri tornado was only one of the first of many destructive and devastating natural disasters to come in 2011. A tornado starts as a spinning tunnel of wind in the sky, but the second it touches the ground it becomes a tornado.…
In the 1950s, a teenage couple, they were both 18, were driving to couples point. It was a dark night with a dense forest all around them. The parked in a small clearing. They just sit and talk, then they hear a snap in the woods, the girl get worried and the boy calms her down and says it just an animal. Yes it is but not that kind of animal. It was just silent, just the sound of the wind hitting the branches. Then the hood pops open, the couple screams. Later on, the police find out that he pulled out the spark plugs out.…
Hurricane Irma (National Hurricane Center designation: 11-L) is a tropical cyclone currently threatening the Leeward Islands. It is the first major hurricane to have developed in the eastern Atlantic (east of 35 ° W) since Hurricane Julia was formed in the 2010 season. It is the ninth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the second major hurricane of the hurricane season in the Atlantic of 2017.…
In 1891 there was a poor family in Finland that had lived there for many generations. The family consisted of a mother, father and two sons. They had always wanted to go to America so they could make money on the cranberry bogs. Neighbors and friends had gone to America to work on the bogs and wrote letters to the family saying how nice it was. They wanted to go there so badly that they decided to start praying for enough money to go. The following day after they first prayed, when they woke up, they had a squirrel standing outside their door. When they would leave, it would follow them. It followed them to the market, it followed the kids to school, it followed them everywhere.…
One dark and stormy night a girl her name is brooklyn her and her sister were plan a halloween party her sister names are Lakota Cheyanna they thought they saw a bloody knife they did they graded the bloody knife they heard something it sound like blood drip my sisters and i went to go see where it was it was coming from are bedroom but we saw something it looked like fangs there was a vampires and bats they were behind the shadows we were all frighten by the bats going all around us so we screamed we went back to our house and locked the doors…
In conclusion Hurricane Katrina has impacted all the different communities largely, the effect of the hurricane has cost the communities a lot of money and resources to rebuild houses and other buildings. Network for good has a ‘Help Hurricane Katrina Victims Rebuild’ charity/funding page to help all the victims, families and communities affected by this natural disaster. Catholic Charities Network have donated over $69 million to help assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. There was a concert held on September 2, 2005 called ‘A Concert for Hurricane Relief’ which went for over an hour, and had many celebrity guests, the concert was sponsored by NBC Universal Television Group. They stated that their purpose was to “Raise…
The next night we all slept in the same tent, with the scoutmaster. In the morning we saw snakes on the tent, they were very long, slimy, and very ugly. As we were trying to escape, they found a way to enter the tent and we all ran out. The scoutmaster was brave enough to burn down the tent together with the snakes and we vacated the forest.…
It was raining. I and mother were coming back from our forest campsite as the plan was all washed away in the rain water. It was around 10 at night. We both were all alone. The rain got heavier, the wipers of the car faster. The streets were empty. Our car fleeted through the logged water and the wheels splashed the water all around the bushes nearby.…
One dark, chilly September night everyone was gathering at the school for an assembly, but as my great grandmother was getting ready, and walking down the ramp at her house, she fell. She went to the hospital and was diagnosed with pneumonia and had a broken wrist. Little did I know that in a couple months would come the most terrifying day of my life.…
