Research

Question 1: Weather Story #1
You are writing a weather story about a hurricane, and you want to put it in perspective. Find a site that offers a list of hurricanes, and write the name of the site and the URL; then answer these questions: Clue: Check the National Hurricane Center.

Answer 1: The costliest hurricane since 1900 was hurricane Katrina in 2005. Katrina struck and caused extensive damages in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and south east Florida. The estimated damages are over $80,000,000,000.

Snagged this information through the National Hurricane Center at this url... http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/damage.asp

Question 2:

This site offers great tips for earthquake preparedness... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/prepare/

Question 3:

In the past year (since last January 28th), there have been two fatal plane crashes in the state of Colorado. There have been 42 non-fatal crashes in this same year.

Found all this through the query at this url...http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/Response2.asp?spage=1&x_page_size=10&sql=Y&p1=1%2F28%2F2009&p2=1%2F28%2F2010&p3=&p4=CO&p5=&p6=&p7=&p8=&p9=&p10=&p11=&p12=&p13=&p14=&p15=&p16=ev%5Fdate&p17=Desc&p18=&p19=&p20=United+States&p21=&p22=&p23=&p24=

In 2000 the NTSB conducted a major investigation of Alaska Airlines.

In 2006, 49 people died in the plane crash in Lexington, KY.

Thats all she wrote.