tornado+potato

**//__BY NUBNUB and LENDELL__//**

We designed a house that is capable of withstanding; -Typhoons -Tsunamis -Floods -Cyclones -Hurricanes -Sandstorms -Tornados -Landslides  Typhoons:

Typhoons are a type of cyclone, a low pressure storm with winds swirling around the centre. They commonly occour in southest asia, in countries such as the phillipenes, taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malasia and even as far north as japan.

Typhoons vs. Hurricanes

Typhoons and hurricanes are both tropical cyclones. The difference is that typhoons are in the northwest pacific ocean, whereas, hurricanes are in the north atlantic, northeast pacific and south pacific.  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tsunamis: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">An undersea earthquake or other another disturbance causes a section of the ocean floor to suddenly rise or sink, the mass of water above the affected area also rises or sinks. This unexpected movement of the water creates a series of powerful waves. The bigger the earthquake, the more powerful the tsunami. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Floods:

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A flood is a great flowing or overflowing of water onto land that is not usually submerged. A flood happens when too much rain, brought by storms and strong winds, falls and cannot be absorbed by the soil. Rivers burst their banks and the water spills onto the land. Strong winds blowing across the sea make huge waves that surge onto the land and flood coastal areas.

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cyclones are formed from simple thunderstorms. However, these thunderstorms can only grow to cyclone strength with cooperation from both the ocean and the atmosphere. First of all, the ocean water itself must be warmer than 26.5 degrees Celsius (81°F). The heat and moisture from this warm water is ultimately the source of energy for cyclones. Cyclones will weaken rapidly when they travel over land or colder ocean waters -- locations where their heat and/or moisture sources do not exist. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Related to having warm ocean water, high relative humidities in the lower and middle troposphere are also required for cyclone development. These high humidities reduce the amount of evaporation in clouds and maximizes the latent heat released because there is more precipitation. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ﻿ Sandstorms: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ﻿ Sandstorms -- also called duststorms -- are caused by strong wind blowing over loose soil or sand, and picking up so much of it that it becomes a great cloud of dust. The widespread abundance of loose sand in deserts makes them the most common locations for sandstorms to form. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ﻿ Tornadoes: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">﻿A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of up to 300 mph. They can destroy buildings, uproot trees and throw vehicles hundreds of yards. They can also drive straw into trees. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide to 50 miles long. In an average year, 1000 tornadoes are reported nationwide <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ﻿ Landslides: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">﻿The definition of a landslide is when rock, eart or other derbis falls down a slope due to gravity. this can cause a great amount of damage to residents and buildings around the area.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">As i mentioned earlier, carlos, lendell and i (nubnub) are making a model for a house underground to protect you from most natural disasters. The house is a two level house. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the top level is a bedroom and the bottom level is a kitchen/tank/cupboard/bathroom/stove and has all the supplies to last you up to however long you need to.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Our house includes of the following objects:- <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-radio/TV <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Hammocks/matresses (50 beds) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Water tank <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Sofas <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Benches <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Cupboards <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-stove <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-toilet <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-shower <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-solar panels

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Our house supports in many natural disasters e.g if your in a flood you can go undergronud to the house with its water proof walls and stay dry and safe with your family and friends. If there was a tsunami coming you can go to the house because the roof is so thick and strong and it digs into the ground that the tsunamis force cant get through and it wont leak. It is extremely safe because you can fit your sisters, brothers, mums, dads, friends, uncles, aunts, grandmas, grandpas, friends uncles, friends aunts ect in the house and there is plenty of food and water to survive a natural disaster. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">There is also a radio so if you get buried under mud from a mud slide,rock from a rock slide or snow from an avalance, you gan send a distress signal so someone can dig you out. So go out today and convince your government/buliders/neibors/friends to donate and buid this house, it could save peoples lives from natural disasters, it could save your life, and as time goes on we will get more technology and we will be able to build a bigger and better house

Facts about natural disasters


 * The second Wednesday in October is International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction which focuses on the urgent need for prevention activities to reduce loss of life, damage to property, infrastructure and environment, and the social and economic disruption caused by natural disasters.
 * In 2008 there were 354 natural disasters in which 236,000 people died and 211,628,186 were affected. This compares to the average for 2000-2007 of 397 natural disasters, with 66,812 deaths and a total of 231,588,104 people affected.
 * Asia was the region worst affected in 2008 with 141 events including, Cyclone Nargis in Burma which left nearly 140,000 people dead (or missing, presumed dead) and an earthquake in Sichuan, China killing 87,476 which made up 93% of the global disaster toll.
 * 2008 was the deadliest year since 2004, the year of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
 * Disasters affect the world's poorest the hardest – 65% from 1991-2005 occurred in developing countries. Although climatological disasters were less numerous in 2008 compared to the annual average of 2000-2007, the number of victims increased by 30%, mainly due to extreme winter conditions in China (77 million victims), and droughts in Africa (14 million victims) and Asia (12 million victims).
 * More than one third of the populations in Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea were affected by drought. Tajikistan also experienced droughts that affected over 2 million people.
 * China was the most affected economically. The economies of Myanmar and Tajikistan were largely affected during 2008, with damage costs representing nearly 30% and 22% of GDP, respectively

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Global Education. Natural Disasters Management, 20.8.2010, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] (30.5.2011)

Youtube.com. Tsunami japan 2011 eartquake 8.9 complete footage, ??.??.????

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BBC. Natural Disasters, 2011, [] (30.5.2011)

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