My Personal Disaster

On a Sunday morning when I was about two and a half years old I was crawling around the sitting room playing with my toys while my mother was ironing my church clothes to wear. While my mum was ironing she was also waiting for the food she was cooking.

Later she heard the food bubbling in the kitchen and so she left the room leaving the iron on. I started to crawl near the iron table ignoring my toys and trying to stand up to touch the iron, but instead I moved the table. While I was moving the table I put my hand near the iron and all of a sudden the iron fell onto my hand. I screamed and screamed.


My parents came rushing inside the room, they saw me and my dad quickly grabbed a wet cloth to put onto my hand. My parents quickly hopped in the car and drove to the Glen Innes shopping centre. Once we arrived my parents started to run and minutes later my parents were in the dressing room at the medical clinic.

Quickly the doctors started to put something on my hand to calm the hotness that was stinging me. For the next few hours the doctors were in the room while my parents were waiting outside in the waiting room worrying about what is going to happen to me. Finally the doctors came out of the room to my parents saying that I was very lucky.. They also said to be very careful when there is something hot on in front of the kids.


So now I have learnt  to be very careful around hot stuff and that I won’t have anything happen to me because I have learnt my lesson. From  that day I haven’t had anything happen to me since.

L.I - we are learning to write explanations about natural disasters

Tsunamis

A tsunami is a series of water made in an ocean or other parts of the water by an earthquake, landslide or a volcanic eruption. It is formed when a destructive wave of water is caused by a shift in the Earth’s tectonic plates. These waves are present when movement occurs and a wall of water is to be forced outwards to the shore, making a wave to produce  mass destruction .

Tsunami waves are different from the waves you can usually find rolling into the coast of a lake or an ocean. Those waves are made by wind offshore and are quite small compared with tsunami waves. A tsunami wave is  about the length of one thousand American football fields and it travels about seven hundred kilometres per hour, but are only one metre high in the open ocean.

Once a tsunami reaches land and  forms a giant wave it crashes down and destroys much of the coastline. The waves of a tsunami are very powerful and can eliminate everything that is close enough to the coastline. 

A tsunami can cause a lot of damage by crushing buildings, sweeping people off land and consequently causing diseases. Every time a tsunami occurs there are a lot of lives lost.

In December 2004 an earthquake in the Indian Ocean of Indonesia caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in fourteen countries.In March 2011 the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor of over 15000 deaths.