Question

What is one possible effect of a hurricane in Florida?


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Answer 1

Answer:

When a hurricane approaches land, tremendous damage can occur to coastal cities and towns. Hurricanes impact natural environments along a coast too. Huge amounts of beach sand are moved from place to place. Even large boulders can be carried in the powerful surge of ocean water. High winds can topple trees. And low-lying areas are often flooded. The amount of damage depends on the strength of a storm and what it hits.

As a storm moves towards a coast, it can cause sea level to rise as much as 20 or 30 feet. Wind from the storm pushes ocean water towards the land. The low pressure of the storm also allows the water level to creep higher. The water piles up with nowhere to go but onto land when it gets to the coast

Answer 2

A hurricane is a storm system that revolves around a low-pressure point and produces intense winds and rain. If the wind speed is between $34$ and $63$ knots, the system is categorised as a tropical storm, and if the wind speed surpasses $63$ knots, it is labelled as a hurricane. A hurricane is on average $500$ miles broad and $10$  miles high, and it rushes forward at $17$ knots like a massive spinning top.

Explanation:

Effects of a hurricane in Florida:

• When hurricanes make landfall, it isn't simply the people who suffer.

• Thousands of animals are slaughtered, rivers are contaminated, trees are uprooted, and the earth is undermined.

• These calamities have been affecting the coasts for millions of years as a natural aspect of the Earth's climate.

• Natural ecological destruction caused by storms in Florida is not inherently negative, and some of the clutter-clearing, soil-enriching benefits of forest fires may be equivalent.

• The difference in modern times, and the reason why hurricanes have such a detrimental influence on the ecosystem now, is entirely due to humans.

• Chemicals and hazardous trash swept away by hurricane floods have the potential to be far more damaging to the environment than a swamped automobile or two.

• Hurricanes result in both fatalities and property destruction.

• The $1928$ Lake Okeechobee hurricane, one of the most severe Atlantic hurricanes on record, wreaked havoc on Lake Okeechobee's artificial lake and caused extensive flooding in its downstream districts, killing $2,400$ people.