HURRICANESBy: Frankie Johnson

What Are Hurricanes?

One of nature's most destructive forces, a hurricane that reaches the shore can cause enormous damage to life and property, precipitating mudslides, flash floods, storm surges, and wind and fire damage.

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Facts about hurricanes

The wind speed can be up to 75 – 200 miles. Graupel forms when snow in the atmosphere encounters

supercooled water. In a process known as accretion, ice crystals form instantly on the outside of the snow and accumulate until the original snowflake is no longer visible or distinguishable.

About.com . "The sustained winds over all of metropolitan New

Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain likely remained weaker than Category 3 strength." New Orleans was experiencing a Category 2 hurricane. A majority of the damage was due to flooding, not winds. Flooding was caused by political failures in terms of 40-50 years of neglect and political games.

Hurricane.com

What it looks like

It looks like a donut.

What it does

In response to Hurricane Katrina, FEMA deployed a Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) to evaluate and assess damage from the hurricane and provide observations, conclusions, and recommendations on the performance of buildings and other structures impacted by wind and flood forces. The conclusions and recommendations of the report provide decision-makers with information and technical guidance that can be used to reduce future hurricane damage.

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How do it form

Hurricanes are the most awesome, violent storms on Earth. People call these storms by other names, such as typhoons or cyclones, depending on where they occur. The scientific term for all these storms is tropical cyclone. Only tropical cyclones that form over the Atlantic Ocean or eastern Pacific Ocean are called "hurricanes."

Whatever they are called, tropical cyclones all form the same way.

Nasa.gov

Hurricane Katrina

8/23/05The Gulf coast of Mississippi

suffered massive damage from the impact of Hurricane Katrina on August 23, leaving 238 people dead, 67 missinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Hurricane_Katrina