Recommended: The effects of natural disasters on the environment
The Remembrance Of The Hurricane Creek Mine Disaster December 30, 1970 is the day everything changed for 39 families in the small town of Leslie County, Kentucky. The Hurricane Creek explosion was the most deadly coal mine disaster in eastern Kentucky history, and remains the most lethal mining disaster in America in the last 45 years(Lexington Herald Leader). The Hurricane Creek mine disaster was very devastating for the families, friends, and the one man that lived that day. The coal mines play a huge role in the job industry in Kentucky. This tragedy caused the whole company to shut down, which put a lot of people out of work.
In 1911, the 275 girls died that day had only 27 buckets of water (Leap for Life, Leap for Death). The wildfire was spreading quickly on the ninth and eighth floor and the fire departments hose could not reach all the way. “19 bodies were found charred against the locked doors. 25 bodies were found huddled in a cloak room” (Leap for Life, Leap for Death). Most of the girls also decided to jump out of the
Phineas Gage, Douglas Mawson, and Henrietta Lacks have devoted themselves to science and pushing human knowledge whether they wanted to or not. Sadly, these three suffered their fair share of hardships during their sacrifice for the future of modern knowledge. Phineas Gage had what one might say “a gruesome turn of events” as an explosive went off, sending a metal rod through the side of his head causing massive damage to the frontal lobe of his brain. Douglas Mawson was on a journey through Antarctica for exploration purposes, causing the long trip back to the ship which happened to be their escape route. Douglas’s two friends that went along on the expedition had been taken by harsh weather and circumstances caused by the Arctic back to
On May ninth and tenth 1996, a disaster shook not only the climbing community but the whole world. Those awful days will last forever through the accounts of many climbers who took part in the horrific disaster. Notably, Into Thin Air, written by Jon Krakauer, and The Climb, co-written by Anatoli Boukreev, an excellent climber who was believed to be the best climber on the mountain, have caused much debate. Sides have been taken, but the credibility shown by Anatoli Boukreev outweigh Krakauer's. His credibility can be shown through his character while on the mountain, his goodwill for the reader, but mostly his knowledge and climbing expertise.
A man in Australia, thought to have drowned because of floodwaters in Tasmania called his family from the roof of his van to say goodbye before being swept away on Tuesday morning. Peter Watson, a 63-year-old delivery guy, and his partner Karen Cassidy were surprised by floodwaters while delivering Fairfax newspapers. After the couple accidentally entered an inundated road, they climbed onto the roof of their partially submerged van. Peter asked his son Corey Watson to deliver a message to his family.
Many days pass and people die very much. We bury close by trail.” (Lynn Peppas pg 4) A Trail of Tears survivor described it like this, imagine walking not really knowing when you are going to stop and watching people, your friends and family, die right in front of you.
When you think of a blizzard, you usually don’t think of tragic 40 below zero temperatures. You don’t always imagine extremely high winds blowing the snow every which way, making it very difficult to see what’s in front of you. You certainly don’t think of a blizzard to kill 235 people, including 213 children just trying to make it home from school. The Children’s Blizzard of 1888 included many details common to blizzards, had incredible devastation due to the welcoming conditions beforehand, and involved some very surprising circumstances.
Every memory jumped back like kangaroos and we cried. This is the most tragic event in Washington, and one of my life's most tragic events. Never going to forget my friends that died because of this mountain. They will always be here to me. The collapse was the largest ever recorded.
The blizzard on January 12, 1888 will forever be known as one of the most disastrous storms in history. The storm earned the name “the children’s blizzard” because so many children lives were taken in this malicious storm. Could something have been done to prevent such a large death toll? Yes. If the proper steps had been taken to warn the people of the approaching bad weather, then many could have taken the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of their family and livestock.
This one impacted the earth sixty-five million years ago and had devastating effects. Then, the author shares a little background information about his daughter and her whereabouts the night of the accident. He shares that she, Madeline, was seventeen years old and that him and his wife bought their daughter a car but couldn’t use it because the car was at the mechanics. Madeline wanted to see a movie and her friend was going to pick her up and drop her off. Late at night, Ted’s wife, Maureen, answered the phone and was shocked to find that their daughter had been hit by a car.
As the news traveled through the town, people began to panic; quickly, I hurried to the tallest buildings that still remained standing. I could see numerous bodies scattered across the cracked roads, their lifeless limbs moving like ragdolls in the violent tremors. The ones that
In 2004 in Indonesia a 9.0 earthquake hit and created a tsunami that killed about 250,00 people and the author Richard Lewis recreaded the story in the killing sea because he is interested in the mysterious ocean. First on page 48 the narrator said “for as far as Ruslan could see, meulaboh had become a lake, clogged with floating debris”. this is true because meulaboh was one of the first places that the tsunami hit so all the ocean water was there and went through many cities and destroyed pretty much everything there.throughout the book Ruslan finds dead bodies and so did many of the rebels, it said that on page 49 the narrator said”across the way, ruslan can see dozens of bodies crumpled on second floor stairs of the shopping mall.” because of the tsunami, about 250,000 people had died so there would be many dead bodies everywhere and inside of every building, but especially in the shopping mall because people like to go to the mall so there would be a lot of people there. Then on page 18 the narrator said”from up top came peter exited cry.
The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern helped me understand the different decisions a lawyer must go through to help their clients. The Buffalo Creek Disaster was a man-made disaster that occurred in February 1972. The Buffalo Creek Mining Company’s coal waste refuse pile collapsed, leaving over 125 people dead and 4,000 people mentally distraught. The Arnold & Porter law firm was reached out to by survivors for help and Gerald M. Stern was appointed as the lawyer for the case, who eventually won $13.5 million for the survivors.
The Grave Without an Exit The hurricane devastated me. Not only was my home flooded, and all of my belongings were destroyed. I was also wronged by a dear friend.
At the shore line there were thousands upon thousands of smashed clay pot and little flags. There was such a think layer of ashes that birds were just walking on the water with ease. The image I will never ever forget though, and it is almost unbelievable, is that about a hundred yards out a man
