Sebastian Junger’s “The Perfect Storm” and Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostal “Super Disasters of the 21st Century” both explain how much damage weather can cause. Both authors use extensive data and details to inform the effects of storms.
Sebastian Junger, author of “The Perfect Storm”, used strategies like a personal anecdote to describe a first experience of a sailors boat during a storm. He then explains the causes and effects of increasing wave heights. In the text it says,”Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half-century”(Junger, 164). By doing this, the author able to explain the cause of increasing