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The children clung together under the little umbrella waiting for the storm to pass.
The brief storm was a relief from the monotony of the hot summer afternoon.
The supermarket was a real zoo on the night before the storm.
The town won't start plowing until the storm is almost over.
Somehow the storm spared our house while nearby buildings were destroyed.
One hundred evacuees spent the night at a school during the storm.
Fortunately the boat suffered no serious damage in the storm.
The storm generated coastal and inland hazards, including flooding, erosion, destruction of coastal defences, and widespread wind damage.
The families Oceanitidae and Hydrobatidae are the storm petrels, small pelagic petrels with a fluttering flight which often follow ships.
Probably the most devastating storm to affect Scotland over the last 500 years, the surge crossed between the Orkney and Shetland Isles.
The Netherlands developed the Delta Works, an extensive system of dams and storm surge barriers.
On Thursday 15 February, German authorities published the first storm warning for the North Sea with wind speeds up to 9 Beaufort.
But examination of the eroded bank indicated that an ancient house, perhaps with other remains, was likely to be claimed by the next storm.
Seasickness can overtake passengers when the ship encounters a storm.
The UK constructed storm surge barriers on the River Thames below London and on the River Hull where it meets the Humber estuary.
Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
The beauty of the sun god, Shamash, shone in his face, and the courage of the storm god, Adad, was in his blood.
He arrived at Santo Domingo on 29 June, but was denied port, and the new governor refused to listen to his storm prediction.
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Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.
Her breaths were coming in a happy storm, her face crimsoning, her nostrils playing in trembling dilation.
The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.
Myths and religions often ascribe natural forces to supernatural beings, as acts of god or hero shaking the earth, raising a storm or flood etc.
Engage in funfilled activities like rearranging the living room furniture, putting up storm windows, and wallpapering the bathroom ceiling.
There's a storm coming, so I grit my teeth and start rowing with all my might.
Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
In the winter of 1850, a severe storm hit Scotland, causing widespread damage and over 200 deaths.
When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village, consisting of a number of small houses without roofs.
In 1924, another storm swept away part of one of the houses and it was determined the site should be made secure and more seriously investigated.
In 1064 Harold sailed from Bosham, from where a storm cast him up in Normandy.
Even when adapted to more conventional methods, the new plan provoked a storm of protest from the majority of German generals.
In January 1877, a great storm swept huge ironstone slabs from the sea bed onto Happisburgh beach.
At the edge of the continent, strong katabatic winds off the polar plateau often blow at storm force.
All of the winds flew out and the resulting storm drove the ships back the way they had come.
Around 5 April 1952, a major storm resulted in disappearance of ships with 79 Norwegian seal hunters on board.
Topography of the land surface is another important element in storm surge extent.
Areas where the land lies less than a few meters above sea level are at particular risk from storm surge inundation.
Two different measures are used for storm tide and storm surge measurements.
Since tides are a localized phenomenon, storm surge can only be measured in relationship to a nearby tidal station.
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They are open and allow free passage, but close when the land is under threat of a storm surge.
For mainland areas, storm surge is more of a threat when the storm strikes land from seaward, rather than approaching from landward.
This phenomenon is known as a reverse storm surge, or a negative storm surge.
From the early 16th century, a number of dikes were built against the storm floods and to gain arable land.
Nitrogen in particular is removed through storm drains, sewage pipes, and other forms of surface runoff.
Following a storm at sea 400 troops had to seek shelter on Holy Island, where they surrendered to the Yorkists.
However, in September 1913 L 1 was destroyed in a storm, while the following month L 2 was lost in a gas explosion.
Hawke pursued, taking a high risk in the middle of a violent storm, and captured or drove ashore five French ships.
As Nelson lay dying, he ordered the fleet to anchor, as a storm was predicted.
However, when the storm blew up, many of the severely damaged ships sank or ran aground on the shoals.
The system was completed in 1998, with completion of the storm surge barrier Maeslantkering in the Nieuwe Waterweg, near Rotterdam.
Other phenomena unrelated to tides but using the word tide are rip tide, storm tide, hurricane tide, and black or red tides.
This brings increased storm activity and rainfall to southern Europe and North Africa.
The intensity of a storm can be predicted for any return period and storm duration, from charts based on historic data for the location.
The rainfall will be greater and the flooding will be worse than the worst storm expected in any single year.
The storm then reaches Arctic areas, and can reach intensities equal to that of a weak hurricane.
During a single storm, the precipitation can range from a torrential downpour to a fine mist.
The outer eyewall eventually replaces the primary one at the end of the cycle, at which time the storm may return to its original intensity.
All else equal, a larger storm will impact a larger area for a longer period of time.
Finally, air subsides and warms at the outer edge of the storm while conserving total heat content.
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The Carnot perspective provides an upper bound on the maximum wind speed that a storm can attain.
It is induced indirectly by the storm itself, the result of a feedback between the cyclonic flow of the storm and its environment.
Physically, the cyclonic circulation of the storm advects environmental air poleward east of center and equatorial west of center.
The combined flow of these gyres acts to advect the storm slowly poleward and westward.
Many storm fatalities occur in mountainous terrain, when diminishing cyclones unleash their moisture as torrential rainfall.
In general, surface observations are available only if the storm is passing over an island or a coastal area, or if there is a nearby ship.
The smallest storm on record, Tropical Storm Marco, formed during October 2008, and made landfall in Veracruz.
An extratropical cyclone is a storm that derives energy from horizontal temperature differences, which are typical in higher latitudes.
Half of his crew went ashore to say prayers in a chapel to give thanks for having survived the storm.
We could hear the wind howling outside as the storm intensified.
Columbus's ships survived with only minor damage, while 29 of the 30 ships in the governor's fleet were lost to a storm on 1 July.
On 5 December 1502, Columbus and his crew found themselves in a storm unlike any they had ever experienced.
During a violent storm on his first return voyage, Columbus, then 41, suffered an attack of what was believed at the time to be gout.
He anchored next to the King's harbor patrol ship on March 4, 1493, where he was told a fleet of 100 caravels had been lost in the storm.
He arrived at Santo Domingo on June 29, 1502, but was denied port, and the new governor refused to listen to his storm prediction.
Columbus left for Hispaniola on April 16, but sustained more damage in a storm off the coast of Cuba.
Roman coins have been found in today's Venezuela, northwest of Brazil, presumably from ships that were carried away by storm in ancient times.
One of the biggest barrier islands in the world, Cape Cod shields much of the Massachusetts coastline from North Atlantic storm waves.
Once every five or six years, a tropical storm, accompanied by very high and potentially damaging winds and heavy rain, will strike the region.
About once every 11 or 12 years a hurricane brings damaging winds and storm surges to the region.
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The storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of Cape Cod residents, some for up to two weeks.
Yamm and Baal, the storm god of Ugaritic myth and often associated with Zeus, have an epic battle for power over the universe.
A storm broke out in the middle of the night and the waves could be heard smashing against the gate and the bronze walls.
In 982 he was caught in a storm and made port in Wendland, where he met Queen Geira, a daughter of King Burizleif.
Blake was driven off by a storm in October and Rupert escaped via Spain to Lisbon, where he had expanded his fleet to 13 ships.
In 2014, with the launch of Pro Kabaddi League a city based franchise league in India, kabaddi took the region with storm.
Laura gets her chance in a dramatic storm and shipwreck, and helps save the island.
Only a storm, which separated the combatants, saved the Roman forces from complete annihilation.
But a storm battered his ships into pieces and many of his soldiers drowned.
A major storm was unleashed, sinking most of the fleet and a large number of Vikings fled in their ships.
In Hittite mythology, in which the storm god Tarhunt slays the giant serpent Illuyanka.
Continuing south, he discovered first Angra dos Ilheus, being hit, then, by a violent storm.
The Santiago was sent down the coast on a scouting expedition and was wrecked in a sudden storm.
Trinidad was captured by the Portuguese and was eventually wrecked in a storm while at anchor under Portuguese control.
On 1 October, a Cossack attempt to storm the Tatar fort at Mount Chyuvash was held off.
On 23 October, the Cossacks attempted to storm the Tatar fort at Mount Chyuvash for a fourth time when the Tatars counterattacked.
There were renewed tensions in 2005 as hundreds of African migrants tried to storm the borders of the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.
While Ibn Battuta visited a mosque on shore, a storm arose and one of the ships of his expedition sank.
These ships are separated into several compartments, so that if one is touched during a storm, the others remain intact.
In 1501, another Portuguese navigator, Pedro d'Ataide, sought shelter in Mossel Bay after losing much of his fleet in a storm.
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Subsequent reports indicated that 10 people had been killed during the storm, including seven in Havana, most during building collapses.
The storm brought deadly winds and rain which left Haiti with a large amount of damage to be repaired.
With additional flooding after the storm, cholera continued to spread beyond the control of officials.
The storm also caused damage to hospitals and roads which created a larger problem in helping victims and moving resources.
According to the journal of his voyage, on February 14, Columbus was caught in a storm off the Azores islands.
On the voyage the Flor De La Mar was wrecked in a storm, and Afonso barely escaped drowning.
The kids got basement duty and my hubs and I struggled in the ensuing storm to nail plastic tarps in place over the openings in the roof.
When some of Tiberius's ships were carried to Britain in a storm during his campaigns in Germany in 16 AD, they came back with tales of monsters.
Drainage systems evolved slowly, and began primarily as a means to drain marshes and storm runoff.
Alaric then moved south, intending to sail to Africa, but his ships were wrecked in a storm and he shortly died of fever.
Alfred blockaded the Viking ships in Devon, and with a relief fleet having been scattered by a storm, the Danes were forced to submit.
Alfred laid siege to the Danes, who were forced to surrender after reinforcements were lost in a storm.
In April 1191 Richard left Messina for Acre, but a storm dispersed his large fleet.
Buckingham's army was troubled by the same storm and deserted when Richard's forces came against them.
A severe storm off the coast of Portugal separated Tiger from the rest of the fleet.
The number of summer storms from the Atlantic, such as the remnants of a tropical storm usually coincides with the location of the jet stream.
In August 1996 a one in 600 years storm left homes and businesses in Black Bull Road, in the Foord Valley, under two metres of water.
We sailed landwards, hoping to gain the shelter of the cove before the storm hit.
Widespread winds from the Burns' Day storm on 25 January 1990 overturned vehicles and damaged buildings.
Oceanic climates can have much storm activity as they are located in the belt of the stormy westerlies.
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Do it!, stir up your energy until it's swirling around like a leaf storm inside your body.
Mosaics took the Empire by storm after samples were retrieved during Lucius Cornelius Sulla's campaigns in Greece.
At one point in the voyage a storm came up and broke the mast off the ship.
This was significant as one ship sailing with King James' fleet actually sank in the storm.
In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio.
Ten days after the storm, three bodies washed up on the coast near Viareggio, midway between Livorno and Lerici.
A piccolo and a pair of trombones help deliver the effect of storm and sunshine in the Sixth, also known as the Pastoral Symphony.
In 2000, Son of Royal Oak was badly injured during a violent storm and lost many branches.
German casualties between March and April 1918 were 270,000, including many highly trained storm troopers.
A major storm battered the Normandy coast from 19 to 22 June, which would have made the beach landings impossible.
En route, Sharon assaulted Themed in a dawn attack, and was able to storm the town with his armor through the Themed Gap.
After being bombarded with stones and petrol bombs from nationalists, the RUC, backed by loyalists, tried to storm the Bogside.
And, financial institutions are shrinking assets to bolster capital and improve their chances of weathering the current storm.
It collapsed some 18 months later during a storm, as a passenger train passed over it, resulting in the loss of 75 lives.
The storm resulted in two deaths and caused great damage to the infrastructure on the islands.
However, after five days of artillery bombardment the Russian army was able to storm it.
They made two attempts to storm the fortress of Kolberg, but neither succeeded.
With just seconds remaining, a storm brewed when referee Alibert awarded a try to France's Arnauld Dulac.
On February 14, 2008 a winter storm caused an unusual snowfall in the upper reaches of the hills of the city.
At length Haakon, weary of delay, attacked, only to encounter a terrific storm which greatly damaged his ships.
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A British attempt to break out of the siege across the river at Gloucester Point failed when a storm hit.
Freezing rain is a type of winter storm called an ice storm where rain falls and then freezes producing a glaze of ice.
In most cases, the dunes are important in protecting the land against potential ravages by storm waves from the sea.
Additionally the height of coastal dunes is impacted by storm events, which can erode dunes.
Rotting seaweed, brought in by storm waves adds nutrients to allow pioneer species to colonize the dune.
In a major dust storm, dunes may move tens of metres through such sheet flows.
Sailors did, however, consider it unlucky to touch a storm petrel, especially one that has landed on the ship.
In the Soviet Union, waste stored in Lake Karachay was blown over the area during a dust storm after the lake had partly dried out.
They were driven off their course by a violent storm and their ship went aground along the coast of an island that may have been Madeira.
A storm on 3 February 1825 penetrated the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, and thus separated Northern Jutland from the rest of Jutland.
Over time, shoals arose, which ultimately were only covered by infrequent storm floods.
However, around 1200, storm surges did break up the northern coast of Western Friesland into five islands.
Detached breakwaters are shore protection structures, created to build up sandy material in order to accommodate drawdown in storm conditions.
The oldest settlements in Northern Germany and Denmark lie on geest, since it provided better protection against storm floods.
Prior to the 1950s, the general practice was to use hard structures to protect against beach erosion or storm damages.
Rock armour has a limited lifespan, is not effective in storm conditions and reduces recreational values.
They are habitually open and allow free passage, but close under threat of a storm surge.
Most casualties during tropical cyclones occur as the result of storm surges.
The deadliest storm surge on record was the 1970 Bhola cyclone, which killed up to 500,000 people in the area of the Bay of Bengal.
Intuitively, this is caused by the storm blowing the water toward one side of the basin in the direction of its winds.
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Size plays an important role in modulating damage caused by a storm.
In areas especially vulnerable to storm surges, people settled behind elevated levees and on natural areas of high ground such as spits and geestland.
A storm tide in 1228 is recorded to have killed more than 100,000 people.
Even landlubbers who find yacht racing about as exciting as watching grass grow might get a charge out of the litigious storm swirling around the America's Cup.
Injection of LPS, which is more likely a hyperinflammation storm rather than sepsis, and the CLP method are both the most commonly used animal models for septic AKI research.
We'll be able to sail safely across the bay once the storm dies down.
It is instead forced directly into streams or storm water runoff drains, where erosion and siltation can be major problems, even when flooding is not.
They said they saw signs, however, that counterwinds, known as wind shear, might begin to dampen the force of the storm before it reached full strength.
His ships next sustained more damage in a storm off the coast of Cuba.
The landscape has been formed for a great part by storm tides in the 10th to 14th centuries, overflowing and carrying away former peat land behind the coastal dunes.
Unfortunately for the Danes, the fleet of reinforcements encountered a storm and lost more than 100 ships, and the Danes were forced to return to East Mercia in the north.
He defeated an English force that attacked him at Southwark, but being unable to storm London Bridge he sought to reach the capital by a more circuitous route.
We watched as the storm clouds advanced inexorably closer to us.
On 15 September 2000, parts of Southsea were flooded when the pumping station which pumps surface water out to sea was itself flooded during a particularly heavy storm.
Henry's first attempt to invade England was frustrated by a storm in 1483, but on his second attempt he arrived unopposed on 7 August 1485 on the southwest coast of Wales.
When Buckingham and his army reached the river, they found it swollen and impossible to cross because of a violent storm that broke on 15 October.
Leaving the island of Santa Maria in the Azores on 23 February, Columbus headed for Castilian Spain, but another storm forced him into Portugal's Lisbon.
Such a storm will rapidly intensify, tracking northward and following the topography of the East Coast, sometimes continuing to grow stronger during its entire existence.
Charles faced a political storm over the succession to the Throne.
After seven weeks at sea, a storm forced the fleet back to Poole, England.
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Coastal erosion is already widespread, and there are many coasts where exceptional high tides or storm surges result in encroachment on the shore, impinging on human activity.
In the summer of 1894, he built a storm alarm made up of a battery, a coherer, and an electric bell, which went off when it picked up the radio waves generated by lightning.
The Back of Wight has very little in the way of suitable shelter for sailing vessels and prevailing storm winds often forced ships onto the coast.
Event warning systems, such as tsunami warnings and storm surge warnings, can be used to minimize the human impact of catastrophic events that cause coastal erosion.
Rising sea levels and storm surges combined to flood some areas.
There are a variety of metrics commonly used to measure storm size.
The name continues the storm theme started by the Panavia Tornado.
Also, the cholera outbreak has been growing since the storm hit Haiti.
These areas are subject to higher storm surges with smaller waves.
But they were surprised in the rear by a second force of Dardani, which had approached their camp stealthily by mountain paths, and proceeded to storm and ransack it.
This is due to storm systems which move across western areas, building up in mountainous regions, and dissipating before reaching the coast where the land has leveled out.
Cloud cover may also play a role in cooling the ocean, by shielding the ocean surface from direct sunlight before and slightly after the storm passage.
The megastorm Sandy caused 13-foot storm surges in the city.
Besides Zalmoxis, the Dacians believed in other deities, such as Gebeleizis, the god of storm and lightning, possibly related to the Thracian god Zibelthiurdos.
Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.
The National Hurricane Center forecasts storm surge using the SLOSH model, which is an abbreviation for Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes.
The barges had begun embarking some 10,000 troops and the storm wrecked the troop and equipment transports, sinking some with the loss of all hands.
Having abandoned a plan to occupy Sicily and North Africa after the destruction of his fleet in a storm, Alaric died as the Visigoths were marching northward.
The attack would combine the new storm troop tactics with ground attack aircraft, tanks, and a carefully planned artillery barrage that would include gas attacks.
The city is challenged by pollution, weak sewage systems, a weak storm drain system that led to massive floodings, heavy traffic, epidemics, and water shortages.
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The attempt by German and Ottoman forces to storm the canal in February 1915 led the British to commit 100,000 troops to the defense of Egypt for the rest of the war.
Water can also be sucked away from shore prior to a storm surge.
The trouble is, in this account of a gambler seeking shelter from the storm in the numbness of cardplay, the prose is similarly, symptomatically numb.
By 28 March, a severe sand storm slowed the Coalition advance as the 3rd Infantry Division halted its northward drive halfway between Najaf and Karbala.
His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
Its powerful storm surge was responsible for the high death toll.
Lucia's flood occurred 14 December 1287, when the seawalls broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history.
At Termessos, Alexander humbled but did not storm the Pisidian city.
To do so, Manu sacrifices either Yemo or the cow, and with help from the sky father, the storm god and the divine twins, forges the earth from the remains.
Continuing to London to the house of his friend, grocer John Strudwick of Snow Hill in the City of London, he was caught in a storm and fell ill with a fever.
The stormy backdrop of Hannibal Crossing The Alps is reputed to have been inspired by a storm over the Chevin in Otley while he was staying at Farnley Hall.
Kielland capsized in a storm in the North Sea with the loss of 123 lives.
The main natural hazards are floods, storms, and storm surges.
When Hodder Westropp introduced the Mesolithic in 1866, as a technology intermediate between Paleolithic and Neolithic, a storm of controversy immediately arose around it.
Overnight, as the storm bore down on urban flood zones, city officials ramped up emergency spaces to shelter thousands more people, mostly in public schools and colleges.
Conflans' fleet became caught in a storm which slowed them down and allowed the pursuing British under Sir Edward Hawke a chance to catch up with them.
He defeated an English force that attacked him at Southwark but was unable to storm London Bridge, forcing him to reach the capital by a more circuitous route.
The loss of the passenger vessel, the Royal Charter, and 459 lives off the coast of Anglesey in a violent storm in October 1859 led to the first gale warning service.
Unfortunately the storm claimed the body, which was not recovered.
Like other precipitation, hail forms in storm clouds when supercooled water droplets freeze on contact with condensation nuclei, such as dust or dirt.
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In 1911, the Met Office began issuing marine weather forecasts which included gale and storm warnings via radio transmission for areas around Great Britain.
German Bight, west or northwest gale 8 to storm 10, imminent.
The winter storm quickly depleted the salt supply of the county.
But on the 24th of April, the wind again blew a perfect storm, and our other ships of the squadron separated, nor did any of them rejoin the commodore.
Recent work has suggested that coastal dunes tend to evolve toward a high or low morphology depending on the growth rate of dunes relative to storm frequency.
The tree was blown down in a storm on Boxing Day 1998, but a replacement, grown from a cutting, now stands in the churchyard of Corstorphine Kirk.
They sent a perfect storm of bullets, over, under, and into our men.
Other species, such as some of the storm petrels, diving petrels and cormorants, never disperse at all, staying near their breeding colonies year round.
Fisher's brother Philip was serving on the training ship Atalanta, which disappeared somewhere between the West Indies and England, believed lost in a storm.
In the old days, a storm like this would gum up the entire system.

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