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...another reason: to see the wind turbine. Rising 120 ft. above the ground, it's the tallest structure in town and supplies 5% of the store's electricity. It's not the only thing that makes this Wal-Mart a green giant. There are photovoltaic shingles on the roof, exterior walls coated with heat-reflective paint and a high-tech system that automatically dims or raises the lights depending on whether it's sunny or overcast. Brent Allen, who manages the experimental store, says customers tell him all the time that "they drove out of their way to shop...
...badly. The glass doors on the veranda were bowing inward; Karl tried to calm his 13-year-old son Aden, while his wife Jenny put down towels to stop the sideways rain from entering the house. It was then that Larry's 200 km/h winds swept over their roof and vacuumed it upward...
...under a mattress. "I just yelled 'Get under there, lay on the floor,' and I got down with him,'' he says. Nikita and her boyfriend Michael managed to get into the hallway under mattresses, but Jenny was caught. "I heard this explosion and I looked up and saw the roof suddenly sucked 30 m up into the air, spinning around and around, and above it the sky was a weird electric blue. I felt myself being sucked upward," she says. "It was like a twister.'' Karl thought the worst: "I heard this scream and then nothing. She's gone...
...Belvedere, on the other side of Innisfail, Bruce Crausaz was confident his squat solid-brick home would easily withstand the gale-force winds - until he saw his wall-mounted television spear towards him. The heavy set catapulted him onto the floor. Rain pelted down on him. The roof was gone. Crausaz crawled out of the kitchen and in terror grabbed a plastic bucket, which he put over his head. For the next 40 minutes he half-knelt, half-lay on the floor with the bucket on his head, tightly gripping the door. "I know it wouldn't have stopped much...
...takes him seriously. His wife, fed up with his aloof dignity, has a one-night fling with an American soldier. Determined to regain her affection, Shunsuke goes heavily into debt to build a modern, American-style house. That pile becomes a metaphor for the marriage and much else. The roof leaks. Plants die on the sunbaked veranda. And when the Japanese-made air-conditioning system breaks down, Shunsuke learns he could have had a superior American version for a fraction of the price. "What we've learned from the West is often in conflict with our traditions," he tells...