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Other vehicles amass on the double-decker sandwich of steel overhead, Boston's other Green Monster, the Central Artery. The Artery was built in the 1950s to funnel 75,000 cars each day into and out of the city; today, over 200,000 cars a day crawl along the outdated expressway. Back below on street level, the honking of horns and the colorful shouts of angry drivers harmonize with the rumble and roar of the bulldozers, cement mixers and dump trucks beginning the construction of the proposed direct underground rail link between North and South Station...
...have to go by the dining hall to get anywhere. [The House] is set up like a funnel," Graham says...
...Oklahoma's Howard Bluestein really did develop an instrument akin to the device called Dorothy in Twister. Bluestein, who was one of the models for meteorologist Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) in the movie, named his device the Totable Tornado Observatory, TOTO for short, and tried to intercept an oncoming funnel. TOTO was a bit unwieldy (it tipped the scales at 400 lbs.), so researchers switched to the more sprightly Turtles, which are cheaper to build and more easily deployed...
...another possibility, says UCLA meteorologist Roger Wakimoto, is that the tornadoes typical of supercell storms are formed by the same mechanism that creates the smaller, less destructive funnel clouds known as waterspouts, landspouts and dust devils. These twisters all build their vortexes not from the clouds down but from the ground up. They are triggered, Wakimoto says, by low-lying eddies of air that are perturbed by a fast-moving front or some other local disturbance. When a supercell storm passes over such an area, swirling air near the ground could easily be sucked into the updraft and spun...
...genre of severe-weather videos and TV specials, nature in extremis provides the voyeuristic thrill of an environmental porno flick. Houses pummeled by hurricane-force winds tumble into the sea. People run screaming from rooms rocked by earthquakes. And in video shot by professional storm chasers and plucky amateurs, funnel clouds whirl forebodingly, kick up a storm of debris and move menacingly closer. Sometimes too close. In one oft-seen clip, a family scrambles for shelter as a tornado bears down on their living room: "Tree just blew over...Get away from the windows...