Natural Disasters
Scientists have showed that the climate change is causing extreme weather events like droughts, heat waves, and floods. These past few years have showed extremely hot climates. It has shown that natural disasters have been up significantly since the 1950’s. The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically, the weather has been getting worse, and worse .Scientists have warned human activity is creating change such as pollution in the air, and most of all just turning the earth into a trash can, causing the weather to have freak disasters. The risks of all of this is heavy rainfall, high temperatures and heat waves associated with forest fires, droughts and the risks of these are increasing each and every day. All of this information leads up to the hurricane that we have been having lately. With the population growing everyday Natural are ouccruing more due to polution,litering,and globalwarming.
Hurricane Issac hit Louisiana at 6:45 p.m on Tuesday around the Mississippi River, driving a wall of water nearly 9 feet high ashore in some area. It moved extremely slow but wild in the direction of New Orleans. The Weather Services issued a tornado watch on Wednesday, stretching from Southeastern Louisiana to the western Florida. Winds of 75 mph, Heavy rains have begun pelting a wide stretch of coast, and massive flooding was expected from a combination of rain, and hail. Because Isaac is a slow-moving storm, stayed in southern Louisiana, parts of Mississippi and Alabama for as long as the next 12-24 hours before moving north, ultimately passing into Arkansas sometime around Thursday.
Hurricane Sandy was a hurricane that devastated most of the Caribbean and the mid-Atlantic and, Northeastern United states during October 2012. Hurricane Sandy is the biggest Atlantic storm in history, which caused at least 50 deaths. Millions of people in Northeast U.S. are still struggling to return back to their home.
A powerful winter storm that hit the nations mid east wrecking holiday travel plans. The storm took out power to thousands of homes, mainly in Arkansas. There were over 10 deaths, and many extremely injured. Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed, many trucks and cars got stuck on icy roads, and began to slide, blizzard warnings were issued, and there was wind of 40 mph.