Word: downpouring
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...tramped up Johns Brook Valley in the rain, our way lit by leafy yellows and oranges where only greens had shown a few weeks before. After four miles we found shelter and set up camp to wait for the morning and for the downpour to stop...
Brown weekend festivities begin Friday, when the Harvard cross country team duels opponents from Princeton and Yale at Franklin Field in Boston. The Crimson harriers already disposed of a weak Brown cross country team, despite a torrential downpour and a slew of disqualifications when Harvard runners took their shirts...
...this were not enough, a light drizzle turned to a downpour, leaving concentric ripples in pools collecting on the grass and washing away the faded chalk outlines of the soccer field. One sensed that a drama critic would have written "overkill" and "too long...
...second of the three days in Leh was an extraordinary test of devotion. No sooner had the saffron-robed speaker begun preaching from his brocade throne than a freezing downpour began, soaking the congregation of 18,000. Everyone sat silently in the rain for four hours, while the air hung heavy with the smell of incense and wet earth. "What faith they must have!" an Indian army officer marveled. "I couldn't sit there for ten minutes...
...devastation was so complete that even after a week of rescue work, nobody knew for sure how much damage had been caused when a torrential downpour sent a flash flood raging down the canyon, 40 miles north of Denver. The disaster struck on the centennial of Colorado's entry into the U.S., and it was certainly the most stunning in the state's history. Some communities virtually disappeared, and the loss was estimated at $50 million...