Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the storm that trampled through the East Coast of the U.S. last week, the 15th such tempest in the nastiest winter in recent memory, American insurance companies had forlornly concluded that all their carefully calculated predictions about the world's weather have been blown way off course. Aetna Life and Casualty announced last Monday that first-quarter earnings would plunge $120 million -- in part because of claims related to January and February's weather. Industrywide, weather-related claims for these two months may total $825 million, on top of $1.75 billion in insured losses caused by the monstrous...
PREDICTION: As warming heats the oceans, the area of water warm enough to produce hurricanes (water temperatures above 80 degreesF) will expand, producing longer and more intense storm seasons...
Andrew: That was about the first time that we nearly died in a van....we were just driving, it was last year and we were driving to Kalamazoo, Michigan and we got in an ice storm and the van was sliding all around the road and we pulled off and went down this scary exit; we were slipping and sliding all down it. It was the first time we realized that we could possibly die doing this. And we thought that was a big deal until we wrecked the van the next tour...
However, he said, "It is definitely not the worst storm we've had in a long time...
...sick of it and I wish the snow would just to away," said Mark C. Alonge '96, who added that this storm was at least not as bad as the blizzard...