#thegreatstorm

First year of university. Project - CLIMATE CHANGE.                                            Showing development and staging to the final product. I used Arial as my font type. In Photoshop i put the images of trees together using different compositions and experimented with the opacity.  

‪My family had a very narrow escape in this. My thoughts with the families of those who were lost. I found this interesting "Thirtieth anniversary of the 1987 Great Storm – in pictures" @guardian #hurricane87 #hurricane1987 #thegreatstormof1987 #thegreatstorm #greatstormof1987

Ahhh 1987 and I was all of 9 years old. #michaelfish and his team famously failed to predict one of the biggest storms the UK had experienced for 100's of years by saying live on tv "Earlier a woman rang the BBC and asked if there would be a Hurricane. The answer is NO" or something to that effect. Just a few short hours later.... What terrible timing. There was absoloutely no warning. We were living literaly by the beach at that time with nothing breaking the full force of the hurricane powering down on us and our local weather reading station was reading 120 miles per hour BUT, and here is the kicker, it was full of micro tornados tearing things up all over the place with a whole power level of their own. Thats what really did the damage. I remember waking up in the night to what sounded like either a steam train shooting past the house or maybe a jet taking off. There is no other sound like it. #TheGreatStorm was quite the thing. It destroyed swathes of Queen Elizabeth Country Park. Just threw trees around like they were matchsticks. I remember us looking out the window and seeing house roofs going past the moon, in fact we ended up with part of our neighbours roof on the front of our house, shingle in the air like it was snow. It was like a bad dream. The heavy glass skylight in our bathroom upstairs kept getting lifted by the wind and slammed back down. The power had gone out of course and all we had was the strangely comforting glow of Dads cigarette untile we found a candle. Its always argued that it wasnt a hurricane. A Hurricane has to happen over tropical waters. Yes, however as experts have said what hit us here in the UK was still of sustain hurrican level winds. So basicaly if we had been in the tropics it would have beem called a hurricane. Because it was Great British we quite classicaly understate it and call it a storm or an "an angry spell". 🌬🌟🌪🌟🌀🌟🌪🌟🌬 #thegreatstorm #stormof87 #michaelfish #highwinds #stormprediction #hurricane87 (at Hayling, Portsmouth, United Kingdom)

#Repost @galvestonhistory (@get_repost) ・・・ #TBT - Clara Barton, 1900. People Helping People ___ This past week we have seen amazing stories of Texans and people from surrounding states coming together to help each other during #Harvey, including the Red Cross. It reminded us of the incredible Clara Barton and her efforts during the 1900 Storm. ____ Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. She was 78 years old in September 1900 when the great hurricane struck Galveston. She joined other Red Cross volunteers and traveled to Galveston from Washington D.C. They arrived on the island on September 17. Once here, Barton headed up the relief effort to assist survivors of the deadly storm. By the time she left Galveston on November 14, she had dispersed over $17,000 in contributions, given away tons of clothing and had organized a subsidiary group to administer aid to African American communities. ____ We are overwhelmed by the devastation our state has suffered this week, but amazed by the huge hearts of the people of Texas and surrounding areas. ____ #hurricaneharvey #thegreatstorm #1900storm #greatstorm #clarabarton #redcross #americanredcross #peoplehelpingpeople #communitylove #texaslove #igtexas #lovetexas #galveston #galvestontx #galvestonisland #galvestonhistory #galvestonhistoricalfoundation #ghf #lovegalveston #mygalveston (at Houston, Texas)

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