How To Use Hurricane In A Sentence
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A hurricane is bearing down on central America.
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Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
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The hurricane wreaked terrible damage on the east coast, at Miami and the Florida Keys.
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One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain
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Marlix feared they might be immune to his hurricane spell, but they turned out to be immune to arcance spells, including counterspell, which made it harder for us to pull them away to a quiet spot of the hall.
Crossfire in Dire Maul: in over our heads
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The hurricane left a trail of destruction behind it.
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There was little structural damage, but the hurricane downed trees and blew roofs off of some bungalows.
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A sooty tern: dozens were spotted in New Jersey – far north of their tropical home – after Hurricane Floyd in September 1999.
Weatherwatch: Birds of the hurricane
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Well, as the hurricane gathers strength and mulls where to strike next, South Florida is left with a mess to mop up.
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The ruckus at the door had focused itself into one six-foot hurricane that was headed straight Molly's way.
BAD MEDICINE
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Some few of these ships had catapult-launched Hurricane fighters - the nearest equivalent to the suicidal Japanese kamikaze planes that Britain ever had.
San Andreas
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Patrick had told her it was strong enough to withstand many weather conditions, including hurricanes and snowstorms.
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This certainly appears to be true of hurricanes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sornette's discussion of the science of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes and meteorite impacts is riveting.
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Hurricane Gustav curved away from the Caribbean Islands and headed toward open ocean.
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It has weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm, thank goodness, but Ophelia is now coming right through here.
The Blame Game
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Well, now that this asshat is in the spotlight someone ask him how much his organization ponied-up for hurricane relief.
Think Progress » James Dobson’s account
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Wind speeds in a category two hurricane can reach close to one hundred eighty kilometers an hour.
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WHITFIELD: For an update on Katrina, let's head to the National Hurricane Center in Miami and that's where the center's director, Max mayfield is standing by.
CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2005
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Even though we're only measuring the ocean's surface, computer models can take that information and use it to help develop a three-dimensional structure of the hurricane, " he says.
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We see America's character in Dr. Tony Recasner, a principal who opened a new charter school from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina.
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The hurricane demage was assessed at three million dollars.
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The fickle nature of hurricanes straying so far north means that there may only be hours of warning before a hurricane strikes.
Times, Sunday Times
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So this levee was not designed to withstand a hurricane the magnitude of Katrina.
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the hurricane demolished houses in its path
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Congress has agreed an $11 million relief package for victims of the hurricane.
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Dora was the only hurricane to directly hit the area since record-keeping began in 1871.
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Hurricane Katrina ‘is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.’
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In recent years its nine million population has been battered by storms and hurricanes.
The Sun
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A chronicle of a hurricane unforetold in 1987 remains the most famous example of a meteorological mistake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only an aircraft flying right into the eye of the hurricane can accurately obtain the data.
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The hurricane is blowing broken glass about in the city streets.
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Nearly 6,000 enthusiasts flocked to the Aviation Viewing Park to see the show and a fly-past by the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, featuring a Lancaster bomber and Hurricane and Spitfire fighters.
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But it wasn't to be all plain sailing, the weather turned and what appeared to be a hurricane appeared over the horizon to the west.
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It has weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm, t [...]
2005 September | Evil Genius Chronicles
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As a boy growing up on Long Island he had greeted news of hurricanes by going up to the attic to sit with an anemometer, and built his own telescope in order to gasp at the planets it revealed.
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Many types of aircraft were replicated in mock-up form including Spitfires, Hurricanes, Wellingtons, Whitleys, and Havocs.
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It is expected to reach hurricane strength in the next 24 hours, and then smack into Nicaragua sometime on Sunday.
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Went to Hurricane for a Christmas Party & the place was jumping!
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He established his credentials as a top-class winger with the Wellington Hurricanes and is quick, powerful and with an unquenchable thirst for tries.
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Buck Abbey, a landscape professor at Louisiana State University, who has studied the effects of hurricane-force winds on plants, notes that the interknit canopy of a grove of trees tend to ride out high winds better than lone specimens -- especially if they're native varieties with wide, spreading branches, low centers of gravity, small leaves and deep root systems.
Trees That Stand Up to Storms
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On Aug.13, Hurricane Charley roared in from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing winds of 140 miles per hour and spawning tornadoes.
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We've been fortunate because none of the eyes' of the hurricanes have swept through our area.
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The main post office here in New Orleans flooded right after the hurricane.
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The agency was heavily criticised for its tardy response to the hurricane.
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Hurricane Charley tossed travel trailers, homes, and boats as it raced through central interior Florida.
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The eye of Hurricane Charley passed directly over the Family Life Center, my home, and the homes of our staff members.
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The hurricane also served to throw a new spotlight on his music.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the hurricane itself passes through, what we seem to now be getting is the wind almost blowing from the west to east, and then in a northerly direction, which is just the opposite of what we've been getting up to now.
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She was then rebuilt, with her hurricane deck expanded breadthways.
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But he still had to actually experience the eye of the hurricane.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Golden Hurricane forced a pair of turnovers from the Bulldogs 'Paul Pinegar in clinching their seventh win in eight games to close the season.
USATODAY.com - Scores
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We just had a wind gust report down there on the coast of hurricane force strength.
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The hospitals are overflowing with victims of the hurricane.
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So if you want to remember a date that will be etched in history, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast area August 29th.
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In early 2002, HMS Rose had to be delivered down the East Coast, through the Panama Canal to a dry dock in San Diego and en route had a bowsprit damaged in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras.
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But we were in the eye of the hurricane all the way across.
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Local people were stoical about the damage caused by the hurricane.
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After the hurricane the homeless numbered over 200 000.
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For a short time, traffic crowded the interstates, as displaced residents flowed back into their neighborhoods to resume work interrupted by Hurricane Rita.
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It was the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Trent had listened to stories of the 1961 hurricane.
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In all the years we have lived here, no trees have fallen except in the exceptional circumstance of the hurricane in the 1980s.
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The teams of engineering experts planned to drop sandbags and boulders into several large gaps that had appeared on Friday in a part of the Industrial Canal levee that had been patched after Hurricane Katrina.
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The numbers grow more staggering everyday, making the recovery from Hurricane Charley seem even more daunting.
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On Sunday night, the National Hurricane Center said Lee's center was about 55 miles (90 kilometers) west-northwest of McComb, Mississippi and moving east-northeast at 7 mph (11 kph).
A weakened Lee still poses flood threat in South
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Hurricane Louis is expected to hit at the weekend.
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Hurricanes are called typhoons when occurring in the Pacific Ocean and willy-willies in Australia.
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If you have decided to store your boat ashore during hurricane season, the only safe way to do it is to remove the rig, dig a hole, and set the boat in the hole resting on overlapping tyres.
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In winter hurricane winds, loose snow loops sidewise in a grinding haze and the whole sky rolls like the ocean, hurling birds like rocks.
Bird Cloud
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U.S. gasoline demand was unchanged last week as lower demand in most regions of the country was outweighed by heavy demand for the fuel in the Gulf Coast region ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
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Furthermore, if the assignment is a portrait of a TV producer or someone who created a Web site to raise funds for hurricane or tsunami relief agencies, the image requires a monitor in the frame.
Archive 2005-01-01
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Did Hurricane Fly simply have an off day to lose his champion hurdler crown?
Times, Sunday Times
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Niclas Wallin rewarded their return with a goal in overtime as the Carolina Hurricanes netted a 3-2 victory to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals Monday night.
USATODAY.com - Hurricanes strike late to tie, then stun Devils in OT
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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There are also stories of cats running around frantically before hurricanes or tornados.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's still unlivable after two rounds of hurricane - related flooding.
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Well, first I called my sister and had a long talk with her about the after-effects of the hurricanes.
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And then there are the weather warnings for hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, floods, winds, and tides.
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Hurricane Louis is expected to hit at the weekend.
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Much of the region's verdant countryside has been destroyed in the hurricane.
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At 5 p. m. EDT, the depression was centered about 620 miles west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands, and moving west near 20 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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For a desert people winds, rain, thunder, lightening, hurricanes, thunderbolts, whirlwinds, and other meteorological phenomena held tremendous fascination.
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Histogram of the time interval between hurricanes, semilog plot.
More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit
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The hurricane is lashing the Florida Keys with torrential rain and storm surges now.
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We know they're big. But let's get technical: If we could freeze frame a hurricane in the sky just for an instant, how many pounds of water is it carrying up there?
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But those short term doomsday scenarios--more active hurricane seasons, droughts etc.--have not materialized, at least not to the point predicted just a short time ago.
Evidence of adverse editorial selection by the CRU Email theives
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You understand, sort of, when people die of natural tragedies, whether it's fires or tornadoes or hurricanes or whatever.
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Hurricanes, other tropical cyclones and associated extreme weather events are increasing in severity and frequency;
Think Progress » Avatar director wants to ‘shoot it out’ with ‘asshole’ Glenn Beck and climate-denier ‘boneheads.’
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The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted.
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When you take into consideration the tiny dimensions of the island, its distance from all the centres of civilization, its isolation, the great calamities which have befallen it from hurricane, drought and pestilence, and the way it has overlived them all, there is every justification for the pride and glory of its inhabitants in their fair and fertile islet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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That frenzied chorus of hot air was used to try to whip up a hurricane designed to alter public opinion.
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Their Hurricanes were still climbing when they saw the formation.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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Hurricane damage could reach billions of dollars.
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Coastal areas across the mid-Atlantic remained under hurricane warnings as evacuations of over 300, 000 people in New York City continued.
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Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will instead have to adjust to a different reality.
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For they know that within you is a force that is like that of a hurricane - wild, natural, untamed and irrepressible.
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After the hurricane the homeless numbered over 200 000.
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It teemed rain from once we set foot on the trail, the underfoot conditions were such that it was like wading through a soft riverbed, it was blowing a gale in the valleys and a hurricane up top.
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People were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
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You have a lot of coastal dwellers particularly in the north, where cyclones and even typhoons, hurricanes are a problem, and we warmer waters are going to generate more intense cyclones.
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Winds are strong and frequent, and hurricanes and blizzards are common.
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Unlike a hurricane - a tornado's big, long-lived and usually slow-moving meteorological cousin - a twister is small, brief, and fast moving.
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A hurricane-force gust blew off part of a church tower.
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Floridians are keeping a watchful eye on Hurricane Wilma, whose winds are now gusting at about 150 miles an hour.
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The bipartisan grumbling varied: Some Democrats griped that the Jewish New Year took up otherwise prolific fundraising days in September, and one Republican operative complained that Hurricane Irene slowed down fundraising in August.
HUFFPOST HILL - Tricorne Hat-less Grassroots Movement Growing On Wall Street
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The CCRIF will enable governments to purchase catastrophe coverage akin to business interruption insurance that will provide them with an early cash payment after a major hurricane or earthquake.
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The lower half of the peninsula received a substantial battering from a big September hurricane.
Silly newbie w/passport & transport needs camping companion
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Wind at hurricane speed, pumping in blasts, cold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their Hurricanes were still climbing when they saw the formation.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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And a big problem that many Hurricane Irene victims are finding out is that their insurance doesn't cover damage after sump pumps stop working thanks to a power outage.
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A couple have told how they cheated death when a hurricane struck their hotel during a holiday from hell.
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He shoved the nose down to sixty degrees and was rewarded with a perfect view of the ruined Hurricane.
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The tepid water in the Gulf fed more heat and moisture into the hurricane.
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Trent knew that Mariana was waiting for the hurricane to fall on them.
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As a hurricane approaches land, they lay out a pretty wide swath of possibilities which they call the cone of uncertainty.
Joseph B. Treaster: No Hurricane Worries? Not So Fast
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But the tugging tides of conservatism outlast most swells of enthusiasm and a series of setbacks conspired to drive London's orchestras furtively back into their shells, like Galapagos tortoises in a hurricane.
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On August 20 a terrific hurricane broke over the mountains.
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Hanging from the central pole was a hurricane lamp that suffused the man and woman with an orange glow.
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How USA's Speedy Peterson's 'Hurricane' could win freestyle skiing Olympic gold - USATODAY. com
How USA's Speedy Peterson's 'Hurricane' could win freestyle skiing Olympic gold
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He wrote the era theme with prose way and simple rational language, which showed the hurricane passionate lyrical momentum and the romantic way of ideographic.
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Wide, slow-moving Hurricane Irene began to organize over the Lesser Antilles Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
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The hurricane of 1938 followed a path that is perfectly intelligible, in retrospect.
Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
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As you drive down the valley you can see the odd cable hanging from electricity poles where the hurricane force winds have felled trees through them.
Times, Sunday Times
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An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
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The damage from the 1956 hurricane was immeasurably greater.
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A fent thief, or perhaps a fent damaged in Hurricane Ike.
Obama negotiations with Iraq.
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This stirring philosophy was to be swept away with hurricane force.
Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
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Here in Naples, Hurricane Wilma caused flooding, including inundating a parking garage.
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It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
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During the hurricane, the one-story bar was swamped by the tidal surge.
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The hurricane also served to throw a new spotlight on his music.
Times, Sunday Times
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King of Great Britain, and that the other in company with him was a prize he had taken; that he was going into Canton River to shelter himself against the hurricanes which were then coming on; and that as soon as the monsoon shifted he should proceed for England.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
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THERE'S a new hurricane warning in force for Manchester.
The Sun
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Hurricane has been forecast for tomorrow afternoon.
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People were swimming in the ocean despite the hurricane warning.
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What effects they might suffer in their remaining years – my winter beachhouse in the keys was damaged by an especially harse hurricane so I had to rebuild by sinking poles 40′ down – are easily offset by the adaptability their affluence affords.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way
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Viola was a small, sinewy, speedy hurricane, spewing surprises with every contraction.
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What To Do During Hurricane Alerts.
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As the Bounty drew closer to the hurricane, the churning seas and furious winds intensified.
Times, Sunday Times
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The roof of their house caved in during a hurricane.
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Although the weather system was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm as it passed over land it brought more than a foot of rain to some areas.
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Over the ledge lies an Atlantic of vapor without sail or shore, and through the hemlocks on North mountain the wind brattles like a hurricane.
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To this day, after she was brought down twice, once by a hurricane and the again by the failure of a few 50-cent pine dowels that served as stopwaters along the sternpost, I still struggle to keep my wooden boat afloat.
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Other hurricanes have struck there since but it seems that most of the reefs escaped any noticeable damage, though locals say that inshore reefs around Ambergris Cay did suffer.
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Because forecasters always try to pinpoint the eye of the hurricane, this knowledge will help with locating the exact position and lead to better tracking.
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Colonial hinged shutters are durable enough to withstand hurricane wind forces.
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The river was swollen due to heavy rains from Hurricane Irene, which also claimed at least three lives on the Caribbean island country.
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Once it flows in, the water will not drain from New Orleans because of the very levees that protect the city and that largely held during the hurricane.
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Reinsurers, which help protect primary carriers such as Allianz SE and Axa SA against the cost of major claims from disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, limit their own risks by selling parts of them to other reinsurers in a process known as retrocession.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
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That kind of data may seem obscure and unimportant, but it's a useful tool for researchers and insurance companies wanting to know long-term hurricane trends.
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Thirty years of relative calm followed before the devastating Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
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I suggest there are a whole lot of" calibrations "in the IPCC models similar to the hurricane model ...
Scientific Blogging
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The room was lit by a single kerosene hurricane lamp in the center of the table and a few candles.
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Your investment can produce top-quality diving no matter what the weather - and we copped the hurricane.
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The task of igniting a scramjet, with air going through the engine at supersonic speed, has been likened to lighting a match in a hurricane.
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Earthquake and hurricane insurance would be required in high-risk areas as a contingency to receiving federal aid to rebuild after a disaster.
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Many coastal towns were desolated by the hurricane.
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In fact, tropical storms or hurricanes have ended many droughts in Texas, and other parts of the world.
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A ferry that ran aground in hurricane-force winds off the west coast of Scotland stranding 100 people on board was refloated by two tugs today.
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We have hurricane glass now, so my major per-hurricane activity of putting up metal shutters is a thing of the past.
Discourse.net: Fay
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Hurricane George was just the latest calamity to hit the state.
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This has been a phenomenal year for hurricanes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, they have been forced to battle hurricanes, floods and lawlessness.
The Sun
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You can see, as we move in a little bit closer, you can now see the eye of the hurricane.
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Hot hurricane action: water crashes furiously over the sea wall, palm trees whip back and forth in an orgiastic frenzy and street signs waggle suggestively in the wind.
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The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm when its speed dropped to 70mph.
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For they know that within you is a force that is like that of a hurricane - wild, natural, untamed and irrepressible.
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Barbuda, Montserrat and St. Kitts and Nevis, meaning that the hurricane conditions are expected within the next 24 hours.
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Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
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board up windows before the hurricane
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The fundraiser to help hurricane victims will be held tonight at the community center.
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They fear the death toll will soar if the huge slick is swept ashore during the upcoming hurricane season.
The Sun
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During her remarkable, epic voyage, Richards, who started sailing as as child in Helensburgh, had to overcome hurricanes, icebergs and soul-destroying solitude.
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And he is but one of a handful of first-generation, American-born soccer players on the inner-city Albion Hurricanes Football Club.
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Conditions remain tough in the white sands resort in the aftermath of the hurricane.
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From hurricanes to floods to unbearable heat, 2005 was one for the record weather books.
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Soon after hitting the water, I saw a Hurricane above me which I discovered later was Barber.
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And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town.
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Many hurricanes eventually drift far enough north or south to move into areas dominated by westerly winds (found in the middle latitudes).
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It was a forced response, albeit a generous one, to the social evils that the hurricane had exposed.
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Severe tropical cyclones correspond to the hurricanes or typhoons of other parts of the world.
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Severe tropical cyclones correspond to the hurricanes or typhoons of other parts of the world.
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The multi-million-pound Great House on Necker, the Virgin tycoon's 60million private island, was struck by lightning in the early hours of Monday when the region was battered by 90mph Hurricane Irene.
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Hurricane Emily will be lashing us with rain about the time that I should be doing my Pilates class tomorrow.
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Many scientists believe that the recent increase in hurricane frequency and intensity is due to global warming, which has raised sea temperatures.
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The others joined in a second later, bashing out the bass line and the drumbeat with the force of a hurricane.
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Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
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People were swimming in the ocean despite the hurricane warning.
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If you want a bit of class, golf, first-rate diving and hurricane parties, think mid-Atlantic.
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There are fears Hurricane Katrina could be just as deadly if it breaks New Orleans' levees and overwhelms the city's water and sewage systems.
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I have traversed elevations of 700 meters (.5 miles) and higher while pulling a 100 kilogram sled (220 lbs) and experienced an Antarctic hurricane that caused damage to my tent, which was fortunately reparable.
Johan Ernst Nilson: Status Update: Trekking Through Antarctica
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The waves hammering the shore cause the bulk of the damage in a hurricane landfall.
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The mercury is rising, the glaciers are melting and the hurricanes are hurtling towards the Americas with increasing ferocity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 1987 hurricane was the worst natural disaster to hit England for decades.
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You can find them in phenomena ranging from the shell of the chambered nautilus to hurricanes and spiral galaxies.
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His Hurricane was shot down over Kent during the Battle of Britan and he was badly burned.
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His coverage of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath is the reason he has lots of fans who watch his show, but actually he acts like a typical CNN talking head now!
Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: July 5, 2006
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The hurricane blew some palm trees over.
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Hurricane victims can use ice to refrigerate food, preserve medicine, and cool off in the summer heat.
