Word: rainstorm
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...news keeps rolling in for Haitians. In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees traveling around the island) sank during a rainstorm. Only about 300 people are known to have survived, though more might have escaped...
...loss ruined a strong performance by Dartmouth senior Matt Brzica, who caught eight passes for 151 yards and one touchdown in a driving rainstorm. Fielder completed 15 of 24 passes for 231 yards and a touchdown, but also had three passes intercepted...
...record show that it took a driving rainstorm to slow down the Fiedler Express...
...that puts state-of-the- art aeronautics to shame. Mosquitoes have range: though most live out their lives within a radius of a kilometer or two, some swamp species have been known to fly more than 160 km (100 miles). And they have maneuverability: a mosquito flying through a rainstorm can land safe and dry on the nape of your neck after dodging hundreds of drops that to it are as big as falling refrigerators...
Just when summer should have been coming in, it snowed last week in Colorado, punctuating several days of unseasonable 32 degrees C (90 degrees F) weather with enough snowfall to close three mountain highways. Paris was hit with a torrential rainstorm -- the worst in a decade -- that crippled the city, poisoned the Seine with sewer effluent, and clogged the river with 300 tons of dead fish. In one hour in early May, a squall dumped a record 110 mm (4 1/3 in.) of rain on Hong Kong, turning steep city streets into rushing rivers and killing five. In the Middle...