Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After days of freezing rain, the rivers of northwestern Europe surged over their banks to engulf towns and cities in Germany, France, Belgium and-worst hit-the Netherlands. Thirty deaths were reported across Europe, with total damages estimated at more than $2 billion...
After days of freezing rain, the rivers of northwestern Europe surged over their banks to engulf towns and cities in Germany, France, Belgium and--worst hit--the Netherlands. Dutch authorities, fearing that some of the country's giant earthen dikes would collapse, evacuated more than 200,000 people from the land between the Meuse and the Waal rivers. Thirty deaths were reported across Europe, with total damages estimated at more than $2 billion...
...addition to melting snows, what swamped the Continent's richest countries under the century's highest water levels was a persistent stream of warm air blowing off the Atlantic and producing marathon rainfalls. Last month Belgium received more than three times its normal amount of rain. From the Rhine to the Loire and the North Sea, France too has been battered by Niagara-like downpours. Normandy and Brittany got almost one-third of their average annual rainfall from Jan. 17 to 28. In Rennes, the Breton capital, showers dropped an astonishing 70 liters of rain...
...name to add to its honor roll of former guests, which includes Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ann Richards, Nobel Winner Rigoberta Menchu and yes, even Newt Gingrich Now they can pencil in Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, she's rain on the IOP's parade of consistent cutting-edge political relevance...
...snowfall, which amounted to six and a half inches by Saturday evening, turned to rain and sleet later that night. Yesterday, roads and sidewalks were slippery, and the wind gusted up to 40 miles per hour...