Elie Tornado
In 2007 a terrible tragedy happened to Elie, Manitoba on June 22nd that left people in shock. It destroyed a highway, 2 houses and damaged other homes. It was also recorded as the first F5 tornado to ever occur in Canada.
LOCATION; Elie is a town in Manitoba which is 30km west of Winnipeg.The tornado first formed in a large corn field, then made it’s way to the Trans Canada highway around 6:30pm, then picked up a large tractor trailer and around 10 cars before heading south towards the towns flour mill causing over 1 million dollars in damage.
PLACE; The population of Elie in 2011 was 562 which is very small to begin with so after the effects of the tornado, it was very hard to adapt the new living standards.
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If you are in a house your best bet would be to go in your basement. And if you have no basement hide under something sturdy, like a table, cover your head and get into fetal position and stay away from windows
TYPES OF TORNADOS; the types of tornados are pretty simple they are F1- F5, F5 is the most dangerous tornado that could ever happen. On many different sites they claim that there could also be an F6 but they have never been recorded or any proof.
TORNADO NAMES; each tornado has a different name due to their type of damage. F1 is called a moderate tornados and there wind speeds are usually 73-112 miles per hour. There damage is usually just some roof shingles peeled back and some cars pushed off the road. F2 is known as a significant tornadoes, the wind speeds are up to 113-157 miles per hour. The F2 damage is roofs torn from houses and large trees snapped off. F3 is called a severe tornados and the wind speeds are 158-206 miles per hour. There damage is roofs and some walls torn from buildings, heavy trucks lifted from the ground. F4 are called Devastating tornados and there wind speeds are 207-260 miles per hour. There damages are well constructed houses are blown off from foundations. F5 are called incredible tornados and there wind speeds are 261-318 miles per hour. The damages are strong framed houses lifted from foundations and the ground swept
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 400 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane. After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, raising the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto. As a result of the high death toll and the damage caused by Hazel, its name was retired from use for North Atlantic hurricanes.
The Mapleton Iowa started off with heavy hail and really strong winds. The Mapleton Iowa caused damage and destruction. The Mapleton Iowa tornado “WIND DAMAGE IS CAUSED BY WINDS ESTIMATED AT 136 TO 165 MPH.” “Injured 14 people were injured” and “75% of the town destroyed”. About 600 plus homes were destroyed.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie experiences horrific events at the hands of the Nazi Party. Opposite of what might be expected, rather than be cruel and hate the world, Elie instead takes his experiences and turns them on the positive side. He uses his tragic and horrific experiences to write the book Night and teach the world about what happened during the Holocaust. Elie’s goal was that we all remember and learn from what happened. The end result was that he won the Nobel Peace Prize for this book.
Have you have ever been there when a family member died, or been treated so cruelly that you lost your faith in something that you never thought you could lose faith in? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel is about his story of surviving the Holocaust. The Germans took everything the Jews had. The Germans took away their pride, family, and all of their possessions. The one thing that they couldn’t take away was their faith, or so the Jews thought.
The holocaust was one of, if not the, worst events in history, German soldiers killed six million Jewish men, women, and children, and even more were put into concentration camps. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about the time he served in concentration camps called Night. (simple) During his time in the camps he suffered many tragedies including losing his entire family. He was beaten, tested over and over for many months, and he was filled with trepidation, yet he kept going through it all.
The biggest reason was the tornado’s vortex and debris. This picks objects up and throws them violently around. This is why so man people have died from tornados and why there is so much destruction. The Joplin tornado was an EF5 tornado that had horrible impacts. The wind speed hit over 200 mph.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of his first hand experience in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel creates a fictional character named Eliezer, the protagonist, to portray himself. At the young age of fifteen Eliezer was forced to endure stress, fear, and inhumane treatment for being born into the opposing minority group. Eliezer struggled to maintain his Jewish faith and persevere through the hardships that were forced upon him. The mistreatment of the Jews by the Germans caused Eliezer, as well as the author, to reconsider his identity and question his own standard of humanity.
Wind speeds at hundred fifteen mph. Sandy was the 12th hurricane in the season and by far the worst. The effects
In 2011, Joplin had a deadly tornado hit down on May 22. It was a regular Sunday afternoon when things started to get bad. It started to get really dark outside, winds at 200 mph, and clouds started to rotate, that's when the tornados started to hit. The joplin tornado wasn't just one big tornado there were 3 small tornados, that come together to make an EF5 tornado. The EF5 tornado hit stores, schools, works, and homes.
Although this storm has broken many records, it also caused catastrophic events. In anticipation
Tornadoes can reach up to 300 miles per hour and the damage paths can be an excess of 1 mile wide. Also, they can reach an amazing length of 50 miles long (Ready.gov, 2012)! The second deadliest tornado recorded in the United States is called the Natchez Tornado. It hit Natchez, Mississippi and traveled along the Mississippi River; creating destruction to the river and Vidalia, Louisiana. This devastation occurred on May 7, 1840 (Hall, 2014).
It was 2:25 pm in Murphysboro, Illinois. The skies darkened, the winds howled, and the rain poured down. Descending on the small little town was a monstrous EF-5 tornado a mile wide with wind speeds above 300 miles per hour. The Tornado had already ravages parts of Missouri and Illinois, killed and injured multiple people, and was ready to lay carnage to Murphysboro. It was coming for the town, straight on a path to tear it up.
Tornadoes are the most violent storms ever. They have caused deaths of many people. Then they also destroyed many buildings and acres of land. Many people are not friends with tornadoes as they sometimes destroy someone's business, and lead people's careers to an end. Also some people are just unlucky, because the country they live might have a lot of tornadoes.
This measurement system was based on the structural damage a tornado leaves behind. This scale did not account for tornadoes in areas without structures or where there was no damage. The modern-day classification of tornadoes is by way of the Enhanced Fujita Scale, also known as the EF-Scale. This scale looks at the damage caused
The Fujita-Pearson scale, formally known as the Fujita scale, is the scale used to rate how destructive a tornado is. The lowest rating is a f0, which has little to no damage on human structures and vegetation. The highest ever recorded rating was an f5, which has a large and sometimes deadly impact on human structures, vegetation and humans ourselves. In 2007 the Enhanced fujita scale was introduced in america, which canada also embraced. It accurately measures wind speed with the amount of destruction a tornado inflicts.