Word: downpour
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Routine Rain. On Christmas Day, 1945, President Truman wanted to visit his mother in Grandview, Mo. An all-night downpour of sleet, which had sheathed the Washington airport in ice, turned to murky rain by morning. Hank Myers studied the weather reports. He laid out a flight plan, made his decision. At 12:06, the President's plane, with Harry Truman aboard, lifted into the mist. Nearly six hours later, Myers cushioned the Sacred Cow to a landing at Kansas City airport. When newspapers called the flight foolhardy, Pilot Myers was amazed. "Routine," said...
Response. In Harrismith, South Africa, a torrential downpour washed out an open-air prayer meeting that had been called to pray for rain...
Raincoats and umbrellas blossomed, with H.A.A. programs taking over the rain shedding chore for those lacking in meteorological foresight. The Princeton band appeared in uniform yellow slickers; in direct contrast, the Harvard musicians pulled on assorted raincoats, sweaters and hats-or just sat taking the downpour in silence...
...fire (one of more than 50 burning in Canada last week) blackened more than 20 square miles of forest. It was already one of the worst forest fires in Nova Scotia's history. At week's end, veteran rangers despondently thought that only a 48-hour downpour would stop...
Yesterday's downpour put .9 inches of water into the Boston Weather Bureau's rain guage, but did not break any records, according to the Bureau statistician. On July 15, 2.54 inches of rain fell in a similar two-hour period...