Descriptive Essay On Hurricanes

A Decade of Destruction.

Tsunamis are on a scale of destruction that no one can stop. Earthquakes that reveal the earth 's true secrets. Hurricanes with winds up to speeds of 155mph, with the worst hurricane recorded, getting wind speeds of 195 mph. A typhoon and a cyclone also fall into the category of hurricanes, just a different type of destruction. Avalanches tumbling down a mountain with high speeds that cover everything in it’s path. Natural disasters can very destructive. Not only can they destroy your environment, your property, your life, your family, and your hope, it destroys the rest of the world too.

If you’re ever in any of these situations, here are ways to survive. In a Tsunami you must get to a higher elevated area. In hurricanes

We came into Lituya at about eight o’clock in the evening, my son was with me. Approximately 10:15 there was a loud rumbling noise from up at the head of the bay. There was a slight pause, I thought that everything was over with, but some movement up their caught my attention out of the corner of my eye, and so I looked directly up and so what I observed was like an atomic explosion. This big splash came and then this huge wave, it looked like just a big wall of water.” said from the father. “I was only eight at the time, and me being a little boy, I was half asleep. He threw me a life preserver and said son pray, you’re looking at death. That was my first thought” With the Ulrich’s preparing their boat, and pray, they waited for the wave to come. “When the wave finally hit us I did feel the boat shooting upward… skyward. I had forty fathoms of anchor chains, and it started running out, off the boat, came to the end of the forty fathoms and snapped just like a string. And then we were free just on the front of the wave. We were swept up over the land over the trees. That’s where I assumed we were going to end up.” Two other boats that had been there were not fortunate enough to survive, carried out to sea and then wrecked.