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**H a z a r d o us ** **H u r r i c <span style="color: #1755d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: super;">a <span style="color: #1642e2; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: super;">n <span style="color: #062dce; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: super;">e <span style="color: #0c129a; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: super;">s ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Hello, my name is Taylor. I am a fifth grade student at MICDS. I am writing this because in World Geography (one of our subjects at MICDS), we are having a project about natural disasters. I choose to study hurricanes because my Dad grew up in Belize and was in a small hurricane. I find them fascinating. In this site, you can learn all about hurricanes. You can learn about: What causes hurricanes?, How do they form?, and How is it that they have so much power? It will be like we're both at MICDS in fifth grade.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Here is a MICDS Weather Link to tell you about the weather in St. Louis.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">My Historical event is Hurricane Rita. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Hurricane Rita, which was referred to as, "Katrina's unwelcome sister", was watched more then any other storm to date. Everyone prepared for the worst. Finally it hit on September 23, 2005. There were many deaths across the southeastern states that day. Thirty-four elderly men and woman died because they refused to leave. People filled their cars with their favorite things, only to leave it behind once the traffic was at a stand still and their engines died.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Everyone boarded up their windows, and tried to evacuate. All at once more then the population fifteen states were on the move. As I said before "People filled their cars with their favorite things, only to leave it behind once the traffic was at a stand still and their engines died." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Rita was a category 5 hurricane. After Hurricane Rita, people no longer underestimate hurricanes and many people try to make their house stronger by using stronger materials.

Click and be washed away on my PowerPoint. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> Here is a current event about Hurricane Irene. **__ Track Hurricane Irene up the East Coast __** by Taylor __ Reported by AFP __ 5G2 2/21/12 My article was written on August 28, 2011but my actual event happened from August 21st -August 28th. I found this article in //Discovery News.// [|**http://news.discovery.com/earth/hurricane-irene-storm-tracker-110825.html**] Many people in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and many other states in that area were hit by hurricane Irene. It killed 14 people. The youngest being 11 years old. He died when a tree fell on his apartment. This article did not say specifically say what people did to prepare for the hurricane but I assume that everyone would board up their windows and try to prepare for anything. One of the many major affects of it was a huge power outage. Almost two-million people lost power. Even Virginia’s governor Bob McDonnell said that he thought it was the second worst power outage in history. I learned that Irene’s eye’s wind speed got up to 65 mph. I also learned that Irene caused tens of billions of dollars. This article is important to science because the more hurricanes occur the closer scientists are to finding out how to predict and protect people from hurricanes like Hurricane Irene and more to come. **__Thanks to...__**

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