Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army evacuated 3000 people, housing them temporarily in the town's schools. Pieces of the concrete seawall, weighing hundreds of pounds, floated through the streets as though they were styrofoam surfboards. Emergency crews erected a 15-foot floodwall along the beach in case a second storm which weather forecasters predicted would come a few days after the first, hit the town. However, it seems unlikely that dirt would have succeeded where tons of concrete had failed...
Physically, Hull survived the storm. The question now is whether the working- and lower-middle-class community of 11,000 can weather the aftermath. Hull is strictly a residential community. Outside of the summertime amusement park and dozens of bars and liquor stores, the town has no industry or commercial tax base. Before the storm an estimated 40 to 60 per cent of the town's residents received some sort of public assistance. Since the storm the Federal government has declared the town a disaster area. Lining up by the thousands at the temporary relief center, the townsfolk wait...
There is no indication that the protest affected the ACSR meeting at all, but the weather may have Only seven of the 12 ACSR members showed up for the discussion...
Officials at the National Weather Service in Washington blamed the storm on a system of intense high pressure that has been meandering back and forth across Canada all winter. A similar system, known to forecasters as a "blocking high," caused California's two-year drought. This winter the Canadian high has been spraying snow and cold in seemingly haphazard, unpredictable directions, plunging temperatures to the 20s in Atlanta and setting snowfall records in places like Valdez, Alaska, which has had more than 63 in. so far. Meteorologists frankly admit that they understand very little about "blocking highs"-except that...
Mother Nature provided Rockefeller with additional problems. Already worried by an exceptionally harsh winter, he was informed last January by the National Weather Service that a monster blizzard was heading toward the state, and issued a warning over the state emergency radio broadcasting system, which had never before been used. Understandably alarmed, people got into massive traffic jams and fought over bread and milk in grocery stores. But the storm never came. Ever since, it has sneeringly been referred to as "Jay's blizzard...