Word: rains
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...golf was 40 minutes from campus at the Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton, Mass., finishing up a strong performance at the 2009 Brown Invitational that was crafted in spite of poor overall weekend conditions. Of the many sports that are altered by wind and crippled by rain, golf is by nature one of the most vulnerable...
This fine puddle sat in the Mem Hall, Mem Church and Thayer intersection for quite some time today. In FlyBy's 15 or so minutes observing the monstrosity, no one dared attempt to test its depth by crossing, even those in their best rain boots. The cause of such a huge lake? Clogged drains, below, of course. A quick clearing by FMO workers led to the pond's untimely death. No dead bodies were recovered upon draining...
...score put him in a three-way tie for 21st. “I would put a lot of the blame on the weather,” said Pollak, a native of San Antonio, Texas. “The wind was blowing really hard. It went from rain to sun to rain and sun and everything in between. It was a constant battle with Mother Nature. I started poorly and ended poorly, which really destroyed my rounds.” As a team, Harvard led the field in par-3, 4, and 5 scoring, averaging 3.32 shots...
...flat as a pool table and barely a mile wide at its narrowest, the Rockaway Peninsula - a tongue of land that sticks into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City's southeastern corner - is already vulnerable to storm surges and floods. Global warming, with its rising seas and harder rain, will only intensify those threats. That's what has Vincent Sapienza, the city's assistant commissioner for wastewater treatment, so worried. The Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 25 million gal. (95,000 cu m) of sewage a day, sits next to the beach, and its pumps are below...
...officials said that the layoffs are very likely to continue, with more cuts scheduled for July 1. Over the course of the day, three protests took place, the last being a candlelight vigil that drew over 40 people to the Medical School Quadrangle in the midst of a light rain...