Sentences with phrase «when gale»

When gale force winds harm roofs and windows, this often creates the opportunity for rain and debris to cause additional damage.

As first mate on a circumnavigating sailboat, the Wanderlust, in 1980, I was at the helm in the middle of the night near Patras, Greece, when a gale arose and we were driven on a shoal.

It's also cold comfort when the gales of scientific uncertainty howl unanswered outside.

Well, in Denmark's case, it has a shared transmission system set up with Germany and Sweden, which allows it to export power when the wind blows beyond the nation's demand, and to import it when the gales are lacking.

Not exact matches

When Eric Gales emigrated to Canada from the U.K. in 2006 to take the job of VP Microsoft Canada he brought with him not just self - made management skills, but the kind of risk - taking attitude sorely lacking in Canadian business culture.

And when a hurricane does make landfall, gales can knock them down.

At a time when the theological storms were beginning to be felt in these islands, long after they had been blowing a gale in the rest of Europe, Slim was for many of us like a rock, standing firm as all about us was moving and capsizing.

Whales, gales and waterspouts were some of the hazards that threatened SI's yachting writer when he sailed through the Roaring Forties aboard the top boat in Australia's wildest race

You can only drink so much coffee, even when it's well made and there's a fine glowing peat fire to sit beside and half a nor «westerly gale straight from Greenland kicking up big green rollers on the beaches of the peninsula.

However, sprinters, when running before a steady southwesterly gale, often achieve personal windblown bests.

When, as thesaurus enthusiasts will appreciate, he could equally have referred to squalls, gales, hurricanes, typhoons or even blizzards.

He swung to the APC when the wind took on a gale force in favour of the party and Buhari's presidency.

He, Huhne and Alexander will be past saving when the force 10 gale of public opinion strikes.

You'll get caught up in laughing at the put - upon stork being bitten, bashed, and spiked by his well - meaning friend's creations, but when the dramatic tipping point comes, with its gale - force emotional kicker, you'll realise that Partly Cloudy was actually talking about something much more, all along.

There's really nothing that pisses me off more in an action movie than when a director starts throwing these camera shots into the scenes all willy - nilly, which has the result of irritating me and making me, a guy who's quite comfortable on a small sea vessel in the middle of a harsh gale, seasick.

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I was at the helm of the circumnavigating sailboat Wanderlust when, around 1 a.m., a gale blew up and drove me off course into shallow waters off Messolonghi, Greece.

Mind you I have never been to the Mumbles when there has been «a light breeze» and the idea that - without reflective roofs - the Mumbles is one of the warmest places in Britain would be refuted by anyone who has been able to stand up in the teeth of the constant gales for more than two minutes.

I used to illicit gales of laughter when I quoted (in translation, and in my best Sesame Street Swedish Chef voice) dated documents about destitute farmers overwhelmed by the glacial advance who were seeking parish aid.

So it seems you have not had the glorious experience of being wrapped in bin liners against the driving rain while sat on the grass seating and drinking red wine when packed together with hundreds of others also watching the players leaning into an Atlantic gale.

When the wind exceeds the maximum, at about gale force 8, the blades are feathered to zero, and braked.