Little Richard and his life before fame

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Richard Wayne Penniman or better known as Little Richard (One of the most famous 50s singers ever) was born in Macon, Georgia on December 5, 1932. Richard was an American musician and songwriter. He sang professionally from 1947 to 2020(72 years). Richard died from bone cancer in 2020.

Before Fame

Richard Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia on December 5, 1932. He was the 3 child out of 12. His mother was Leva Mae (nee Stewart) and his father was Charles “bud” Penniman. His father was a deacon and a brick mason. He sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and he also had an inn called the Tip in inn. His mother was a member of the Hope Baptist Church. He was supposed to be named “Ricardo” but after his birth certificate was messed up he was named “Richard” instead. As a kid Richard had the name of “Lil’ Richard” by his family because he had a small and skinny frame. He was a very mischievous kid and very sneaky who would play pranks on his neighbors.

He began singing in his church at a very young age. As a result of birth complications, he was born with his left leg slightly shorter than his left. He was made fun of because of that. His family was quite religious. They joined A.M.E., Baptist, and Pentecostal churches. Some of his family members became ministers. He enjoyed Pentecostal the most because of the charismatic teachings and the live music. Later on he recalled that people in his neighborhood sang gospel music throughout the day during segregation to keep a positive outlook, because “there was so much poverty, so much prejudice in those days.” He saw that people sang “to feel their connection with God” and to wash away their trials and burdens away. Richard naturally had a very loud singing voice. He earned the nickname “War Hawk” because he sang so high pitched and loud. As a little kid he would go on to the front porch and bang on garbage cans, pots and pans singing as loud as he could.

He’s favorite type of music was gospel. He’s favorite singers were Brother Joe May, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson and Marion Williams. May (who was known as “the Thunderbolt of the Middle West” because of his vocal power and range) was Richards favorite above all and was his motivation.

Tornadoes

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Tornadoes

Tornadoes are formed from thunderstorms, you need warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and cool dry air from Canada. When those two air masses meet, they create a instability atmosphere. Rising the air within the draft tilts the rotating the air from horizontal to vertical.

Southeast Tornadoes

In Dixie Alley, tornadoes are harder to spot and occurs at night. Unlike the plain where the tornadoes can be seen from miles away, you can’t spot the tornadoes in the south because of the rugged terrain and it has more trees there. Which makes it difficult to spot a tornado. Lots of the tornadoes that occur in the area, are rain-wrapped so they are less visible to the eye.

Lots of the tornadoes there move faster and stay on the ground longer, because they are pushed with a stronger jet stream which results with a faster moving storm. It’s not uncommon for the tornadoes there to move upward of 50 miles per hour.

Is It Hard To Live In A Place With Tornadoes Like That?

It’s hard to live there because with how fast the tornadoes are going, and how the tornadoes come up at night. The people there are most likely to be sleep when the tornadoes happen. It ends up putting more pressure on the forecaster because, they have to get the information out to the public in enough time that the public can react to the warning.

Nashville residents have only minutes to react before the tornadoes hit their home. Many house there don’t have a basement there or a underground shelter.

Densely Populated

The southeast are densely populated, which means more death there. As you move east from Kansas to Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, the population increases rapidly. They also have a problem with more mobile house. If you get hit in a mobile home, you are more likely to get killed. You have a unique exposure, and vulnerability problem in a mobile home.

Even though there are more tornadoes in Tornado Alley then in Dixie Alley, there has been more deaths in Dixie then in Tornado because Dixie Alley has a more populated area.

Tornado In Southeast Area

The tornadoes that hit in Tennessee on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 hours after midnight killed at least 24 people some of them in bed asleep. The tornadoes, destroyed 140 building there in Tennessee and buried many people in rubble and wrecked basements. The tornadoes came at such a fast speed, that if anyone was in the way of the tornadoes they wouldn’t have enough time to get away from the tornadoes.

The government send out many search and rescue team to the area of the tornadoes. They found 25 people died and a number of people missing. When morning came they found blown down walls, flattened home, building, and business, with broken power lines, and snapped trees making the roads and street impassable.

In one neighborhood volunteers found five bodies, and they are still looking for two more bodies.

One of the people there in Nashville in the time of the tornadoes stated that, “ The dogs started to bark before the sirens went off. They knew what was coming,” said Paula Wade, of east Nashville.

Roofs came crashing down on many people, when they were just waking up to the sirens. Many people got trapped inside, but were able to find a way out of their houses. Mike Stephens woke up to a tree falling through his roof.

Gov. Bill Lee said that he saw many people going to peoples aid and help out one another. He said “ In the worst circumstances, the best of people comes out, and that’s what we’re seeing,” he said.

In Nashville, the tornadoes hit mostly north and east of the heart of downtown. The tornadoes spared many of the towns tourist attracts. The twister decided to hit and destroy the largely African American of Bordeaux .and North Nashville, and neighborhoods.

Many Nashville residents walk around on the sidewalks, that are littered with trash and parts of peoples homes. They are able to look into peoples house. With missing walls, and missing roofs you can easily look into peoples kitchen and into peoples living rooms.

The National Weather Services said that the tornadoes inflicted the east part of Tennessee. They also decided that the infliction of the tornadoes was at least a EF-3 intensity, the agent said.

One of the twister destroyed homes, and buildings a crossed a 10-mile stretch. The tornadoes, inflicted three dozen buildings some of it including the tower, and stained glass of a historic church. One of the other tornadoes destroyed 100 structures, along a 2 mile stretch. The tornadoes wiped away houses and brought the wreckage far away.