Word: cloudbursts
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...driving along Florida Avenue when the sky suddenly darkened and rain poured down. It was a cloudburst that turned the afternoon into night. Jarvis had on a chauffeur's cap. Jessie Strieff thought he was a taxi driver and she called to him and jumped in his car. Jarvis smiled politely. The avenue was deserted. Everyone had run to cover to get out of the deluge. Half an hour later Jarvis left the girl's nude body in a nearby garage, drove...
...plans for the world's highest astronomical station to house the first U. S. coronagraph. Site of the new observatory is Climax, Colo., a hamlet of 1,500 souls, perched 11,300 feet high on a pass of the Great Divide. Chief advantage of Climax is a daily cloudburst, which lasts about an hour, washes the sky an intense blue, clear as any in the Western Hemisphere. No drifting motes of dust can settle on the coronagraph lens to mar the view...
...with cartoons. It can. As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When it descends to earth it collapses like a scarecrow in a cloudburst...
...gift of nature of which expansive Southern California does not boast is floods. After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90°, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. The precipitation, 7.26 in., made the wettest early December since 1889, reminded frightened Los Angelenos of their disastrous floods last March (11 in. in five days). Casualty: a ten-year-old boy fell and was knocked unconscious, drowned in a puddle. Wisecrack: Radio Comedian Bob Hope complained that he had been arrested for going through...
...Canyon, have been acting up. Last January a Northwest Airlines Lockheed Zephyr shook off part of its tail structure, plummeted into Bridger Canyon, bringing ten persons to death. Last month the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific's Olympian dived through a trestle into Custer Creek during a cloudburst, killing and drowning 47. Following week the Olympian ran through orders near Roundup, hit a trainload of CCC boys head on, killed one. Then, one morning last week, disaster struck twice again on Montana's tortuous stretches...