Hurricane Sandy

Examples of Hurricane Sandy in the following topics:

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • Days prior to the 2012 Presidential Election, Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, devastating many states in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions.

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • A long-time critic of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) who claimed that it should be eliminated, Romney also likely lost votes in the Northeast when, a week before the election, Hurricane Sandy devastated the New England, New York, and New Jersey coasts.

• Try these multiple choice questions

  • The next three questions refer to the following data: (showing the number of hurricanes by category to directly strike the mainland U.S. each decade) obtained from www.nhc.noaa.gov/gifs/table6.gif15 A major hurricane is one with a strength rating of 3, 4 or 5.
  • Using only completed decades (1941 – 2000), calculate the least squares line for the number of major hurricanes expected based upon the total number of hurricanes.
  • The data for 2001-2004 show 9 hurricanes have hit the mainland United States.
  • The line of best fit predicts 2.83 major hurricanes to hit mainland U.S.
  • Yes, because, in fact, there have been 3 major hurricanes this decade

• Hurricane Katrina

  • Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
  • At least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane.
  • Katrina was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States; among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall.
  • Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding in the state before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Category 5 Hurricane Katrina at peak strength on August 28, 2005.

• Root Modifications

  • In screwpine, a palm-like tree that grows in sandy tropical soils, aerial roots develop to provide additional support that help the tree remain upright in shifting sand and water conditions.
  • The (b) screwpine develops aerial roots that help support the plant in sandy soils.

• Marine Habitats

  • Marine habitats include coastal zones, intertidal zones, sandy shores, rocky shores, mudflats, swamps and salt marshes, estuaries, kelp forests, seagrasses, and coral reefs.
  • Sandy shores, also called beaches, are coastal shorelines where sand accumulates.
  • The relative solidity of rocky shores seems to give them a permanence compared to the shifting nature of sandy shores.
  • In contrast to sandy shores, plants and animals can anchor themselves to the rocks.

• Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender

  • This was seen when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

• Aboriginal Australian Art

  • Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra, and William Sandy are some of the best known Papunya artists.

• Try these multiple choice questions

  • The next two questions refer to the following relative frequency table on hurricanes that have made direct hits on the U.S between 1851 and 2004.
  • Hurricanes are given a strength category rating based on the minimum wind speed generated by the storm.
  • What is the relative frequency of direct hits that were category 4 hurricanes?

• Multiple Regression Models

  • For example, let's say you're interested in finding a suitable habitat to reintroduce the rare beach tiger beetle, Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis, which lives on sandy beaches on the Atlantic coast of North America.