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Wall of Water. After a night of cloudburst, sheriff's deputies roamed the little (pop. 2,885) cattle town of Ozona, 75 miles north of the border, to cry a warning before dawn. Church bells rang and sirens wailed, but too many people stayed to wait and watch for water in normally dry Johnson's Draw. At 5 a.m. the water came; a 30-ft.-high wall that crashed through town, carried away houses and cars, killed 15 people...
...face of a sudden cloudburst, the University of Michigan chalked up a possible record for the shortest commencement in history. Shouted President Harlan Hatcher as the ceremonies-and the rains -began: "All degrees listed in the commencement program become effective this month," and that was that...
...months since December 1951, the moisture deficiency in the southern half of Missouri amounts to a million tons of water for every square mile of tillable land. Said Charlie Williford, U.S. weatherman in Springfield: "All we need is five inches of snow for a week, and a cloudburst in between...
...falls in love with the prince-in-disguise (Riccardo Manning), who marries her because he knows she loves him for himself, not just for his title. Gioacchino Rossini and his librettist left out all references to fairy godmothers, pumpkins and glass slippers. But Rossini filled his work with a cloudburst of pretty tunes whose lightning changes of mood had a magical charm of their...
French and his earth-moving Arabs built dikes across three wadies and ploughed L-shaped ridges in the flatland below the dikes. Then they waited for a cloudburst. On Oct. 30 the heavens opened in fine Biblical style. The water filled pools behind the dikes; it ran around their ends and was distributed over the flatland by the waiting ridges. In a week it was all absorbed, saturating the soil five-feet down. Beyond the dikes, the soil was as dry as ever...