Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide and seven miles long, the twister left at least 27 people dead, nothing but bald concrete slabs in the ground where homes once stood...
While Jarrell was the most disastrously affected, tornadoes struck a wide area from Waco to hill country south of Austin. Elsewhere, however, the destruction in the path of the storm, which led to three other deaths, seemed almost whimsical. The roof was ripped off a supermarket in Cedar Park, but when shoppers who had taken refuge in the freezer section emerged, they saw apples and melons still neatly stacked in the produce department. Dan Wachoub was barbecuing in his backyard when he saw what appeared to be black smoke behind his home. He went inside and called the fire department...
...Volunteers going to the schools doesn't make it any cheaper to build storm sewers," he says...
...credit Feaster is an enigma to media and opponents alike. Opposing coaches were taken by storm her freshman year, when the Chester, South Carolina native poured in 17.0 points per game, was 16th in the nation in rebounding (11.2 rpg), was the unanimous choice as Ivy League Rookie of the Year and won All-American honors...
Sophomore Ed Mosely continued to have success as an up-and-coming Harvard star. Mosely placed third at the EIWAs coming off a stellar freshman year that saw the young grappler take first in his class at the EIWA's and storm his way to All-Ivy and Rookie of the Year honors...