Can You Survive Storm Chasing?: An Interactive Survival Adventure
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Elizabeth Raum
Elizabeth Raum has written dozens of books for young readers, including biographies, history books, and picture books. She taught English and social studies to students in grades 7-12 and worked as a librarian in both elementary schools and colleges. She particularly enjoys visiting schools and libraries to talk with students about research and writing.
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Can You Survive Storm Chasing? - Elizabeth Raum
orientation.
About Your
Adventure
YOU are a meteorology student who is fascinated by storms. To learn more about weather events, you need to experience them firsthand. But will you be able to survive the dangerous situations?
In this book you’ll deal with extreme survival situations. You’ll explore how the knowledge you have and the choices you make can mean the difference between life and death.
Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.
YOU CHOOSE the path you take through your adventure.
CHAPTER 1
Amazed by Weather
As soon as you hear a clap of thunder, you’re out the door watching the sky. You’ve always been amazed by the weather. Your Uncle Dave is a meteorologist. When you were in grade school, he showed you how to keep accurate weather records.
In high school you read books about the weather, watched the Weather Channel on TV, and listened to weather reports on the radio. When it was time for college, you chose Central Michigan University’s meteorology program. You have one more year of college. Then you’ll be a meteorologist just like your uncle.
Dark clouds can suddenly unleash powerful storms.
You’ve seen some powerful storms. When you were 10, a tornado struck your grandparents’ home. It destroyed the dining room wall,
Grandpa said, but it never even touched the dishes on the table.
Tornadoes are the most violent storms on Earth. They often develop from supercell thunderstorms. Supercells can occur when warm, moist air rises to meet cold, dry air. About 15 percent of supercells produce tornadoes. The United States has about 1,000 tornadoes a year. Most occur along Tornado Alley, which runs north from Texas. But tornadoes can strike anywhere. As a meteorologist you will give advance warnings so people can seek shelter before a storm hits.
You’ve also experienced a flash flood. The power of the fast-moving water surprised you. It tore a garage off its foundation and carried it 2 miles downstream. Flash floods kill about 200 Americans a year, and they can happen anywhere.
One storm you’ve never seen is a hurricane. Hurricanes are the biggest storms on Earth. Some are more than 500 miles wide. Many of these tropical storms form over warm ocean waters off the coast of Africa. These are the hurricanes that sometimes strike the United States. As the moisture rises, more air moves in to take its place. This creates a strong wind. As the wind circles, it draws more and more moisture from the water’s surface. If the storm remains over warm water, it becomes larger and more powerful. But when the storm crosses cold water or land, it loses power and gradually fades away.
Like tornadoes, hurricane winds do lots of damage, but the storm surge may be even more dangerous. A storm surge is a type of flood. It occurs when ocean water is blown