Hurricane Maria- Joaquin Sanchez

                                                                Hurricane Maria

                Hurricane Maria has become an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, hurricane warnings issued for Puerto Rico. Maria became a Category 4 hurricane on Monday sep.18, 2017 afternoon, having winds of 130 pmh at 5 p.m. ET. The hurricane center said,” Additional rapid strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours.  Warnings are being posted in the U.S. Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Lucia. Just after having to deal with Hurricane Irma, what would be left of these precious islands? The National Weather Service warned Puerto Rico that Hurricane Maria will have “catastrophic winds” and to add more to this unstoppable hurricane “major to record rains and flooding are expected to accompany Maria,”  only  time will tell if the hurricane will impact the U.S. East Coast, but the possibility of Florida getting hit by this storm are great. AccuWeather meteorologist Dave Samuhel say,” We may luck out and it (the storm) turns north before reaching Florida” but he says this other troubling sentence” Unfortunately, it looks like blocking high pressure could force it (the storm) into Florida.”  The author is John Bacon and Doyle Rice. They are both USA TODAY reporters, Bacon has been with USA TODAY since 1983. His journalism has taken him from American Indian villages at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to several national political conventions. Doyle Rice has been with USA TODAY since 2004. From blizzards and hurricanes to tornadoes and floods, the USA’s wild weather keeps him busy. This article was produced in September 18, 2017 at 5:34 pm.  I had no prior knowledge of this event. The audience is, I believe, is the people who are living in Puerto Rico, those who live in the east Virgin Islands, those in Florida and in the East Coast of the USA, but also for everyone around the world. To let them know what is destroying our precious islands, homes, and lives. This article was written to let everyone know what’s going on in the world, to make people get to safety, and to save lives. The think the main idea was to inform us about Hurricane Maria. It (the article) tried warning us, but while I was reading the newsletter the warnings came off like sympathetically. I guess because there has been so much destruction with hurricanes these last few months that they feel bad writing another article about a hurricane doing more damage. This article is important because it is warning us about a deadly storm coming to land where civilized life has developed. The conclusion I have come to is that this article was meant to save lives and to save people. Even though it’s just words in a newsletter, but these words can change people’s actions and choices for a greater good or bad. This is relevant to our lives today because we can have family that lives in the effected places of the hurricane. Or the hurricane can knockout a major supplier of a certain product, and everyone in the US could have a shortage of the supply. This article can be connected to the Hurricane Irma which happened not too long ago. It destroyed many lives and killed many people. And sadly Maria will do the same in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and maybe even Florida. Hopefully we can get past this horrible time and come together as a community to help rebuild the lives that the hurricanes destroyed.


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