Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm has bombarded the area with a weight of 45 pounds per square foot, according to an estimate of the Blue Hills Observatory of Harvard, splitting the roof of Hollis Hall yesterday, and sending ice water cascading down the four story stair well...
Whether for Earl Godwine's forgetfulness or the Abbot's enterprise, deferred punishment came to the island in 1099 when it was submerged by the sea in a storm. Lomea became one of the world's worst perils to shipping. Strong winds and tides pumping through the narrow Straits of Dover have not only built up the Goodwin's seaward side into an almost vertical wall, but driven ships into the sucking grasp of their sands. At low tide, the Goodwins are a desolate, brownish-grey archipelago; between 1824 and 1854, determined cricketers sloshed through four...
First, the Weather Bureau's research budget (now a skimpy $200,000 a year) needed a hefty boost. With about $10 million, Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer figured that the bureau could give storm and snow clouds a deeper plumbing, learn a lot more about the mysteries of the upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer...
...Weatherman Reichelderfer contends that, with all their brilliant ideas, the Europeans have not advanced forecasting directly: "Their discoveries did not point the way to techniques in forecasting that would distinguish heavy snowstorms of this kind that swing inland [e.g., the recent storm] from those that remain...
...last the storm stopped. But for thousands of suburbanites, the memory lingered on. Among them was an airplane pilot, who had gone to his Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead...