Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Category 5 Hurricanes


Hurricanes ahhh run for your lives! That's what comes to the minds of many people down at the southern tips of Flordia and Loiusiana every year during hurricane season. However category five hurricanes are excedingly rare. Even though these storms don't strike often they pack a huge punch when they do hit.

(damage from a category 5 hurricane)

Category 5 hurricanes casue massive flooding, have winds higher than 155mph, storm surges over 18 ft high and catestrophic destruction.
Bibiliography

http://gohsep.la.gov/hurricanerelated/hurricanecategories.htm info

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastprofile.shtml info

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whcat5.htm

www.utexas.edu/2006/hurricanes/index.html Picture#1

https://wiki.friscoisd.org/user/duncana/ Picture#2