Word: weatherizing
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...spent most of his time at the Footlights Club. "And one night I did a sketch John had written before, a thing called ?BBC BC' in which Bill Oddie read the news: ?Good evening, here beginneth the news. It has come to pass that...' And I did the weather forecast: ?Over the whole of Egypt, plague followed by floods, followed by frogs, and then death of all the firstborn - sorry about that Egypt.'" (Spamalot echoes this in the historian's opening narration: "...In Mercia and the two Anglias: Plague. With a 50% chance of pestilence coming out of the Northeast...
...from the insurance industry. What's the relationship between the insurance business and global warming? Think of it as the canary in the corporate mine. Insurance companies' fortunes are directly tied to the accuracy of their environmental-risk projections. And as our climate continues to warm up and catastrophic weather events increase, those projections have needed thorough overhauls. Last year, for example, the industry's catastrophe models assumed that three Atlantic superstorms wouldn't occur in one year. But, in August, it wasn't just a run-of-the-mill third superstorm (if such a thing were possible) that proved...
...benefits of the surface are obvious. After a summer that showcased the unpredictable nature of Cambridge weather, it’s a welcome development that the surface stays solid, dry and tight...
...It’s spectacular,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy says. “Besides that it gives us a great all-weather, terrific surface, besides that it gives us a great indoor facility for virtually everybody in the athletic department, it’s beautiful. Probably the best thing about it is, aesthetically, it picks up the whole place...
...weather slowed us down a little bit,” Sullivan says...