Word: haphazard
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North of San Francisco, the Russian River rose to inundate the surrounding resorts and country houses as well as the tiny town of Guerneville. Said Guerneville Resident Mary Cervantes: "We've lost everything." Spreading out from California, the storms cut a haphazard trail of havoc. Mudslides that cut the main auto routes through the High Sierras stranded thousands of gamblers in Reno. In Utah rain deluged the low-lying areas and snows blanketed the mountains...
...calculate my chances of survival for the evening. If the cops didn't stop us, a concrete abutment almost certainly would. The three Dead fans in the seat in front of me hardly seemed concerned. They swayed shoulder to shoulder as we were gently rocked by the van's haphazard course...
Predictably, the north wing--which was renovated to become a Columbia dorm--was renovated first. The south wing was not ready until December--three months late and with haphazard, peeling paint jobs and already crumbling plaster. Only after more wrangling and meetings with Columbia was the building finally habitable in March 1985, two years after the fire...
Testimony revealed that the vessel, one of twelve designed in Poland but built in Rumania in the early '70s, was virtually doomed from the day its keel was laid. When the ships' designer saw the haphazard way in which they were being constructed, he complained to Polish authorities and resigned after his plea was ignored. Judge Andrzej Przybielski accused the Register of Shipping of "glaring negligence" in allowing the vessel to be built with faulty and substandard steel. He also cited an inoperative emergency radio, faulty signal flares and the crew's lack of familiarity with other safety equipment...
...second floor of his 18th century house, Fowles follows a daily regimen of "natural drift" in a jumbled study overlooking the English Channel. He is a fast writer but a slow publisher. Composing "in a haphazard, cockamamy way" on a well-worn manual typewriter, he can turn out a draft of an entire novel in two or three months, but typically holds it for revision over a period of years...