Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrival coincided with that of prodigious Harvard baseball Coach Joe Walsh; I would like to think that the luck is all his. Give the credit where you want, but the team turned around that year, winning the division and coming a few bounces of the ball and a May thunderstorm away from winning the Ivy League title...
...delight delights me, and I am down with the summertime blues. Winter lifts me up, and summer drags me down, and always has. A good thunderstorm helps, but then the sun comes out. I used to enjoy playing golf in the summer, but golf is a game that brings out the worst in people, and fishing is a very poor use of time, and basketball is perilous for the older guy. He fights for a rebound and snaps an Achilles tendon and spends six months in a walking cast--I wouldn't even want to be in the cast...
...final moments of last Tuesday's American Airlines Flight 1420 were a ride through white-knuckle hell. The skies near Little Rock National Airport were being thrashed by a top-of-the-scale, level-6 thunderstorm. The plane and its human cargo--139 passengers and six crew members--were being tossed around by winds up to 80 m.p.h. And in the cockpit, the pilot and co-pilot were getting two separate wind-shear alerts. When the wheels of the twin-engine Super MD-80 finally touched down, it was on a runway made slick by heavy rain and marble-size...
American Airlines Flight 1420 came in during a thunderstorm just before midnight Tuesday, and the rain-slicked runway just wasn't long enough. The twin-engine Super MD-80 outran 7,200 feet of asphalt, careened past an access road and whipped around a metal tower that peeled back the plane's thin shell on the left side, said one passenger, "like a sardine can." Then the spilled fuel caught fire, and the race to get out was on. Of 139 passengers and six crew members on board, 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Fifty-one others...
...knocked out by what amounted to a one-two punch. First, peeved that Branson's December flight had infringed upon its airspace, China denied entry to his countrymen, forcing them to follow a more convoluted route. And then, while traveling over Thailand, Elson and Prescot were hit by a thunderstorm that shredded their balloon's envelope. They survived, after a harrowing dunking in the Pacific...