Sentences with phrase «sea storms in»

As George Buttrick once said in a sermon, «You do not have a sea storm in a roadside puddle.»

Not exact matches

Up to 12 million people could be displaced by the storm, which is packing winds of over 130 mph and expected to cause an 11 - foot surge in sea levels, according to the India Meteorological Department.

The sea level had already risen, in a phenomenon called storm surge.

While you take notice of the boats ripped from their mooring and washing out to sea, note that the surge and storm were even more powerful at its epicenter over Big Pine Key, culminating in a 10 foot surge based upon waterlines we saw firsthand among damaged homes.

Sediment resources on the OCS are leased to local communities or federal agencies to help them restore shorelines or wetlands in an effort to address chronic erosion, sea level rise, impacts from major storms, or to protect valuable infrastructure and habitat.

The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53 patients, including one young turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.

Like the weary sailor, the refugee from wreck and storm, who escapes half «dead, and then, in terror, shudders with dread at the very mention of the name of the «sea»; who swears he'll never sail again, who raves he'll stay home, even on the calmest days, but then, in time, forgets his fearful ways, and seeks, again, his fortune above the waves; I, too, have barely escaped the storms that revolve around you, my love, traveling far away, vowing to avoid another catastrophe, but I can't; the thought of you breaks my resolve, and so, I return to where, on that fateful day, Inearly drowned in your tempestuous sea.

Another such occurrence is on the sea of Galilee, in the fourth watch of the night, during a storm.

Finally, Jesus brings a calm to the sea and the storm; just as God was present to Elijah in the «still, small voice».

This introduces a series of miracles beginning with the second nature miracle in the Synoptic Gospels, the stilling of a storm on the Sea of Galilee (Mk 4:37 - 41; Mt 8:23 - 27; Lk 8:22 - 25).

«16 Landlessness is a condition of being «at sea» and that is where we are, and in a rising storm.

Matthew inserts two that come later in both Mark and Luke (Mt 8:23 - 24; Mk 4:35 - 41; 5:1 - 20; Lk 8 ~ -39) the calming of the storm on the Sea of Galilee and the exorcism of the Gadarene demoniac, who, with Matthew's curious propensity for doubling, becomes two demoniacs in his account.

Flow will we, privileged with this knowledge, answer the question the disciples verbalize when they have experienced Jesus» authority over the forces of chaos in the stilling of the storm, «Who then is this for even the wind and the sea obey him?»

To quote the most pertinent verses, «Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he brought them out from their distress; he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.»

This can be observed in Mark 4:35 - 41 (NJB) in which Jesus calms the storm that threatened to sink the disciple's boat: «And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, «Quiet now!

Wherever I sensed a calm sea, I sought to rock the boat; I wanted others to share in my storm» (p. 113 - 114).

But they were trapped in the morass of polytheism; one of the reasons for this was that the traditional associations of various deities with particular phenomena — the sun, the moon, the stars, storms, vegetation, the sea, and so on — meant that the obvious multiplicity of nature kept getting in the way of their struggles to apprehend the unity of the divine.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

More troubling is the delay of Jesus when the disciples are on the sea in the storm.

I felt like Marky Mark in The Perfect Storm, alone and lost at sea.

Her link to the baby can be like a sea anchor in her otherwise storm tossed life, and even going out for a few hours can make her feel she is cutting her moorings and abandoning her baby.

We live right by the coast and experience the elements in all their guises — everything from the intense shades of sea and sky on calm summer days to their angry faces in a bad storm.

ZANNA: Yes, we live right by the coast and experience the elements in all their guises — everything from the intense shades of sea and sky on calm summer days to their angry faces in a bad storm.

Parents often feel lost at sea, themselves, when it comes to the best course for guiding and growing their children in the storm - tossed waves and murky waters of childhood behaviors, and many churches try to meet parent's needs by offering parenting books and classes.

Imagine a ship damaged at sea, broken and sinking fast, heading for the safety and shelter of the harbor only to be stopped at the end of the breakwaters, the line between storm - tossed sea and calm waters, and told to clean up their deck, fix their rudders, and examine their ship logs to see where they went wrong, all while still in danger of sinking in the rough seas.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

David Cameron is in Dawlish on the Devon coast today, where a storm last week washed away sections of the seawall, leaving a railway dangling over the sea.

«When it comes to protecting Staten Island from damaging storms and surges, we have to utilize every tool in the tool box and that is why hammering out a plan for the Island's sea wall is so critical,» Schumer said.

Not all flooded during the 2012 storm, but climate change in the form of rising sea levels is increasing the risk of future damage, and higher flood insurance bills.

He called for the building of levees or other barriers to counter the threat of storm flooding as sea level rises; in New York Harbor the water is about a foot higher than it was a century ago.

If sea - level rise remains small, then changes in storm surge are the most important concern for future coastal risk to New York City.

Extreme sea levels are typically caused by a combination of high tides, storm surges, and in many cases waves, Wahl said.

«Human decisions about energy will be important in determining how much the sea rises and thus how much damage we face, and accurate projections of storms will help in minimizing the risks.»

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

It cautions that the United States has not done enough to avoid rapid increases in carbon dioxide contributing to rising sea levels, intensifying heat waves and storms, damaging droughts and other impacts.

In a storm at sea, wind - driven waves line up perpendicular to the wind's direction.

The research Sweet conducted suggests that, from Atlantic City south, the type of storm surge that would have been a once - in - a-century event in 1950 is likely to occur every couple decades by 2100, because of sea - level rise.

Although storms like Superstorm Sandy are incredibly rare, sea - level rise has made a Sandy - level inundation event 50 percent more likely than it was in 1950 in areas like the Battery and Sandy Hook, said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer.

«They are at the center of the storm for sea - level rise,» said UM Rosenstiel School Professor Gregor Eberli, a senior author on the study published in Scientific Reports.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

Thomsen and his colleagues have discovered that changes in ocean currents triggered by storms raging on the sea surface can alter the release of gas from the hydrate mounds.

An article in the March issue of Oceanography, authored by scientists from Cornell and Rutgers universities, points to 2012's unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt as the root cause of the events that transformed a relatively modest storm into a destructive force (ClimateWire, Sept. 20, 2012).

Among other important changes now occurring in the marine environment, rising sea levels will create the need for increased protection from such severe storms.

As a result, estimates of coastal vulnerability — which once focussed on sea level rise — now have to factor in changing patterns of storm erosion, more intense storms, and other coastal effects.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

A storm surge is an abnormal increase in the local sea level.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

The evaporation of sea spray is thought to contribute to the transfer of heat from the ocean to the atmosphere, which accelerate winds in a storm, potentially impacting its intensity.

In areas around the North Sea and Mediterranean coast, however, later winter storms, indicated by cooler colors, are to blame for flooding.