Hurricane - Eric Mack - Day 3

Dear Uncle Bill,


Finally the strom is over and there is much destrucion. The area is flooded and houses are destroyed. Our house got some minor damage. Thats how I'm able to right this blog. Im just going to brifely tell you about the damages around this area of the storm. It really is eye opening to see all the damage and what it will take to put it all back together.

First off what you mostly see around here is all the pollution in the flood water. Oil has been spilled into the neighborhood, and I have also seen some human and animal waste in the water. Yuck! This make the water and soil polluted and unable to use or drink out of. I saw a rim of a basketball hoop in my front yard this morning. The wind was so strong that it took a metal hoop off of a metal pole. The wind must have been pretty strong. There were trees in my backyard that were blown over and if trees 50-100ft tall fell over that crops were blown over as well. It has been starting to have a smell of mildew and mold. Its all because of the stagnant water and it is allowing the mold and mildew to grow. The waste carries bacteria and viruses and its not helping any.

People are taking this very hard as well. They are getting sick because of the water and soil. The stagnat water is helping produce mold and mildew which is making people sick. It is very unsanitary because of the waste in the water. People treid eating the crops and died because they were contaminated with toxins and chemicals. It is hurting the emotionally too. This is a very tragic event. I have to go now.

~Eric~

Day 3-Julian did dis

OMG!

This place is really torn up. It doen't even look anything like the middletown I know. there's been major flooding. they're estimating half the population of Delaware to be wiped out. I'm just glad i'm ok. Our water supply has been contaminated by flooding in the sewers. But we stocked up on bottled water before the storm so were good on water for now. There is debree fall over the place. peices of cars, peices of houses, limbs from trees, and even limbs of people too. The delaware beaches are in need of some hefty reconstruction because they were mostly washed away. The feilds full of corn and soy re damaged and missing alot of their crops. The worst part is that an oil taker was blown over and spilled all of its oil all over the chesapeake bay. Many fish are dying.

This will really affect the Economy of delaware. The constuction costs will be cery high. The tourisim will be low.(not that there was very much to begin with). Oil prices will rise due to the transportation of supplies to rebuild the state. The hospitals are full. And peoples insurence probobly won't be able to cover the damages done. And hotels by the shore are losing money.But on the bright side we will receive alot of donations to help rebuild Delaware.

This storm has really impacted the people too. The dead bodies are causing an outbreak of diseses. Sewers have overflowed into our water supply and now were short on water. The spilled oil is killing may fish and the crops of delaware have little vegitation. This may cause famine. People will have to get their houses and mabeye even cars fixed too. And were stuck in our houses until some water drains out.

Here is some pictures about floods.

Thats pretty much it. BY!

Day 3 - Tornadoes Josh

Whew...we made it through the storm. The rest of the ranch was not so lucky. Animals and plants alike were lost to the raging winds. We don't know the full extent of the damage, but the farmer says it will be at least $10,000. The farmland was lost and they will lose most of their revenue for the year. The barn is badly damaged and the siloh fell over. I don't think anyone was injured, but some of the cows didn't make it... The power is out and I'm sending this on my i-Pod Touch. There is also no running water in the faucet so we are dring bottles now. The car is gone, so I won't be home for a few more days. It's for the best because I need to comfort the farmer and his wife after the mental and physical stress they've had and is yet to come. The animals are like family so it's like they've lost some family members. To learn more about the impact tornadoes cause, go to this site. I need to go help clean up now...it's gonna be a looooonnnggg time until I come home...

Day 3 - Tornadoes - Arden

Dear cousins,

It has now been four days since the tornado has begun. Since our internet is back up and eveything seems quiet, I think the tornado might be over. Really quickly, I'm going to go outside and check outside and see what kind of damage there is out there. Be back....................NOW! Sorry it took so long but I had to look and be amazed at all the destructive damage. Whe I looked outside, the only things I saw were car flipped over, buildings missing over seventy-five percent of its debrees, trees knocked over and lamposts all over the place. When I went outside, I saw some people gathering outside crying about losses in their family. I could see environmental, economicm and human imapcts all over the place. There were flooded areas all over the place. Since thunderstorms start tornadoes, it was raining when it hit so there are floods EVERYWHERE! Buildings are destroyed as well as cars flipped over and destroyed streets. Plus since evrything is destroyed, people can't go to work to pay for the damage done to their house. Now children are scared to death thinking that if they do something bad ever again, a tornado will come and get them. People are even dead as well as cows, chickens, cats, and dogs. This has really taken a hit on us. People are really depressed about what happened over the past four days. Wish us luck and please pay us so that we can pay for the damage done to our house.

Sincerely,

Arden

Thunderstorm (Day 3) - Sam Andersen

Dear Grandma and Grandpa,

It's been a couple days since my last post, but here everything is going well, thank god! I just got home from helping some people get everything (that's not destroyed) out of their home, a tree fell on it. Tree's must weigh a TON because anything that was within the crash area was absolutely destroyed, even the refrigerator is now dead! Also our power just came back on today, that was the longest power outage I've ever been in! Did you know that the lightning is not what kills people in a thunderstorms, it's the trees being knocked over and the debris flying around.

While I'm writing this letter to you I am also watching the news, they say that there will be three types of impacts on our area from this storm, there is the environmental impact, the economic impact, and of course the human impact. Right now you can probably guess what the environmental impact is like here, but I'll fill you in with the little details. First they're telling us not to drink any tap water, even if you think it looks fine, apparently when the flooding from the storm hit some of the factories, their chemicals got mixed together and now they're concerned that the water may have pollutants and deadly chemicals in it. There have also been some concerns with fires raging on even after the rain came, can you believe it? Apparently there was allot of lightning that hit trees, actually come to think of it I did see an orange glow that seemed to be radiating out from the forest, I'm glad it was far from the house! But I feel kinda bad for the forest, being in over four feet of water and having lots of trees knocked over.

The forcast for the economic impact is that prices of foods, goods, and gas are expected to go up over the next week or so, but they will fall back to their normal prices again. When the power went out some of the factories got completly shut down and some things like cloths will be more expensive. Also at the RSW Bank near Mom and Dad's store in Wilmington they had to practically start over on the building project they were doing. Did you know that in a thunderstorm in Australia caused over $1.7 billion in damages (that's allot of money)!

We also have to deal with the human impact! There have been about 15 total fatalities in the tri-state area, and hundreds of homes destroyed, it seems that things can't get much worse. I'll write again next week telling you guys how everything is then, and hopefully news that everything has returned to normal. If you want to learn a little more about the damage from the storm, click here

I'm off to work again,

Sam

Thunderstorms 3 Sam Kaufman

Dear reader,

During this horrible thunderstorm there was severe flash flooding in all of Delaware . Every basement in Delaware got at least 5 inches of water. There were also strong winds and many trees were knocked down. Several trees fell on homes injuring the residents. During the storm it was very cold and there was hail the size of soft balls falling from the sky. Lightning strikes occurred frequently in the storm and one person got struck by the lightning. Trees were also struck by lightning and one strike caused a severe wild fire were 25 acres of forest were burned to the ground. 7 people were killed in various ways by the thunderstorm ,including the wildfire. Hundreds more people were injured and thousands lost their homes. This catastrophe has caused there to be higher taxes on everything and goods that normally were not taxed were forced to be taxed. This taxing is to help rebuild roads and houses that were destroyed during the storm. A thunderstorm this devastating has never been seen before and hopefully will not occur again. For more information Click Here

Tornado - AJ Duncan (Day 3)

Dear, MomMom and Grandpa





Hey I hope you two are alright after that disaster. Once again i been doing some research on some of the aftermath on the tornado causes. Since you live in the west some of the common environmental impact is a major lost of trees and it tears up the lands. Since you got alot of farm land where you are there will be major lost of crops and livestock. Some other stuff is:

• Barns/Farm Buildings
• Fences
• Revenue loss from lost production and bussiness
• Farm Machinery
  

Some of the human made resources are like:

• Damage to buildings
• Loss of landscaping
• Damage to cars
• Damage to Trucks
• Damage to Trains
• Damage to Airplanes
• Animals

Some of the local utilities will be off like:

• Power (Electricity could be out from 3 Days- A Month)
• Communications
• Drinking Water
• Transportation
• Food

Some of the economic impact would be bad because the goverment would have to pay for the lost of town and city. Also since after the tornado alot of the people in the town lose alot land and property. Since alot of farmers earn their money by selling crops and animals alot of animals get caught up in the storm and it destroy there farm land.