Word: downpours
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...said a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, Miss., "is that this is a long, slow crest. The odds against being spared heavy April rains go up every day. We are hoping that we can get through the next couple of weeks without a big downpour." That hope seemed dashed early last weekend as rains began to pelt parts of the lower river valley and flash flood warnings went out for the entire state of Mississippi, but the rains mercifully let up, the warnings were canceled and riverbank residents returned to their normal activities-which include watching...
...starts fiendishly to sculpt. He pours sweat and blither in a steady stream of inspiration until the light of dawn the impossible stands before him--a revolutionary bus of Beauty Shaw of course, never shows up So the by now manic messiah carts his statue through a violent downpour to Shaw's gallery in the center of Paris and to a crescendo of stormy musak, he hurls his bust exultantly at the horrified faces behind the gallery glass...
...intrepid team, led by Captain Deac "Not Meek" Dake, trouped through the downpour to their traditional battleground behind the Stadium. Arriving promptly at the ordained 9 a.m. rumble time, the Crime warriors posed for the team portrait shown above...
...Hong Kong three days of torrential rains-26 inches in all, the heaviest downpour in 83 years-triggered a series of landslides that killed at least 100 people and left another 71 missing. The highest death toll was recorded in the Kowloon quarter, across Hong Kong harbor, where slides swept away a squatters' village. Three buildings on Hong Kong's Victoria Peak, where many of the colony's most expensive residential areas are situated, were also destroyed. One twelve-story building, with all its lights burning, seemed to tilt slowly before it plunged down the hillside like...
...developed over two cloud-seeding experiments conducted by researchers at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology just before some ten inches of rain fell in four hours. Governor Kneip ordered an investigation into whether these tests might have contributed to the flooding, although most experts blamed the downpour on unusual atmospheric conditions. But to a gratifying degree, the people of Rapid City and their neighbors forged new human bonds in a time of great need. "It's amazing how this brought people together," observed Mrs. Virginia Tanner, who took in a widowed mother's family...