Below is a list of typical job descriptions for our retail locations. The UPS Store associates are employees or independent contractors of the independently owned and operated The UPS Store franchisees and are not employees or independent contractors of The UPS Store. Inc., or UPS. Center Manager.
The sustained and powerful winds of a hurricane will cause salty ocean water to pile up and surge onshore. These âstorm surgesâ can be huge. Hurricane Ireneâs surges brought water levels that were as much as 8 feet above normal high tide and Katrina pushed a 30 foot high surge onto the coast.
Violent windsâ¦driving rainâ¦ killer waves. These are the hallmarks of a hurricane. Also called cyclones or typhoons, hurricanes are giant storms prowling the worldâs tropical seas. An average hurricane releases as much energy in a day as the explosion of half a million small atomic bombs.Hurricanes form in the summer and fall, when the sun heats vast stretches of tropical ocean to over 82 degrees.ithin the center of the hurricane, downdrafts of dry air create a strangely calm area called the eye. fully formed, a hurricane may stretch over 500 miles in diameterâ¦ a storm nearly the size of texasâ¦ and reach a height of 9 miles. Most of these storms spin out over the open sea.