Sentences with phrase «as hurricane force»

Perhaps an emergent situation, such as a hurricane forces your family into unfamiliar and stressful living conditions, or your puppy exhibits symptoms of an eating disorder.

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With tropical force winds reaching 230 miles from its center, Hurricane Maria completely engulfed Puerto Rico as it bisected the 100 - mile wide island, picking up steam again one it was clear.

The airline's dedication to providing extensive hurricane relief on the Caribbean island — and in the continental U.S. — underscores its commitment to leveraging its strengths as a business to rise up as a force for good in the community.

Most major Asian stock indexes edged up on Tuesday, tracking major gains on Wall Street on Monday, as hurricane Irma did not hit Florida with the force that many feared.

Irma made landfall Sept. 6 on the island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 185 mph, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record and ultimately forcing the evacuation of the entire population of the island.

There is no justification, no spiritual reason, why forces of nature such as hurricanes and viruses hurt us or why some of us get hit by cars or lost when planes crash.

«We deal with the hurricane season as a «normal» thing in our region, but the giant scope (size, force, rapidness of development) of Irma and Maria are just of another league,» Ríos explained by email.

Early last year at a windsurfing / kiteboarding event in Leucate, France, he took exception to a windsurfer's description of kiteboarders as «wimps» and attempted to ride in hurricane - force gusts.

Every government spokesperson today could easily — and accurately — rephrase that as «We all currently do our communicating in the teeth of a force - 12 digital hurricane.»

«We all currently do our journalism in the teeth of a force - 12 digital hurricane,» said Alan Rusbridger, former Editor of the UK Guardian, in the memo he wrote recently while stepping down from a position he was due to take up later this year, as Chairman of the Trust that owns the revered paper.

That few voters know who Donovan is or what he's done, including heading up the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, is a secondary concern to Tusk, who imagines an independent expenditure budget as high as $ 20 million, with three - quarters spent tearing the mayor apart.

Smith's bio on the New York State Senate website lists him as vice chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, chairman of the Independent Democratic Conference, chair of the Senate Social Service Committee, co-chair of the Budget Sub-Committee on Super Storm Sandy recovery and co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force on Hurricane Sandy Relief.

A newly formed bipartisan task force is taking aim at Hurricane Sandy's collateral damage as it looks to give property owners a tax break.

Hurricane - force winds resonate across the rusty deserts of Mars, although they generate only about as much noise as a modest breeze blowing through Earth's far denser atmosphere.

Now, in a new $ 62 million, 5 - year program, the network of doomsday machines is expanding to simulate hurricanes and tornadoes and is joining forces with computer modeling to study how things too big for a physical test — such as nuclear reactors or even an entire city — will weather what Mother Nature throws at them.

As Hurricane Sandy showed us once again, our cities and infrastructure are vulnerable to powerful natural forces.

Scientists are using the resulting mosaic pictures to study patterns such as how Manhattan sank into semi-darkness after Hurricane Sandy and how geography forces people into settlement patterns, such as along the densely populated Nile in Egypt.

This force affects objects moving on the surface of a rotating body, for example generating hurricanes in Earth's atmosphere as it moves over our spinning planet.

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, federal forecasters are warning that the massive storm could bring «life - threatening» storm surges, flooding, hurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and westHurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, federal forecasters are warning that the massive storm could bring «life - threatening» storm surges, flooding, hurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and westhurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and west to Ohio.

However, NASA lost a week of preparation time due to a forced evacuation of Mission Control in Houston as Hurricane Ike swept through Texas.

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

Posted on October 11, 2017 · Under a new mental health task force, three state agencies will help connect public schools and universities with counselors, funding and training as students and staff work to overcome the traumatic effects of Hurricane Harvey.

A decade ago, the country watched with broken hearts as Hurricane Katrina's devastation and destruction forced the closure of most of New Orleans» schools and ushered in a major overhaul of the district's struggling system.

Street or track, those modes indeed make the CTS - V a hurricane - force breeze to drive, with steering and suspension as sensitive to conditions as a veteran meteorologist.

Sugarcane Academy begins as the tale of a one - room schoolhouse created to educate children who were forced to flee as Hurricane Katrina approached.

First, our area was hit with what was called an «inland hurricane» where we forced to file a claim as our home received extensive damage.

With AKC Pet Disaster Relief, pets will no longer be forced to wander the streets for days, displaced from their families, as they did during disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Moore, Oklahoma tornadoes.

A growing Hurricane Irma is forcing some drastic changes to cruise ship itineraries as it barrels towards the Caribbean and the Florida coast.

1998 - 2006 Between 2004 and 2006, Andrews researches his Migrant Series, traveling the routes of the Dust Bowl migration, the Cherokee forced - march known as the Trail of Tears, and those displaced in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina.

What, we wonder, is the meaning of this swinging, heaving, chaotic blur of elemental forces as menacing as a hurricane?

Examples of non-robust results are the changes in El Niño as a result of climate forcings, or the impact on hurricanes.

So it's fine to talk about sea level and surge risk from hurricanes, but not fine to describe the weirdness factor in this hybrid system as somehow significantly shaped (emphasis on «significantly») by greenhouse forcing.

Many of the changes proposed to adapt to climate change are readily justifiable as approaches to shelter our wealth and well - being against the erratic forces of nature such as Hurricane Katrina and the recent floods in Australia.

> 14, 15, Russell — I meant «volokh» as the weblog, not the person sponsoring it; look back at the Judith Curry hurricane thread for a visit here by a lawyer who's active at volokhconspiracy, that will show in the search — he's the gentleman who was arguing that an increase in force 4 hurricanes (based on statistics, there are lots of 4s) can't possibly be the basis for expecting an increase in force 5 hurricanes (there are so few 5s that the statistics don't suffice, if you consider them separately).

They also chose to go the bus home route rather than a tiny home, as building a tiny home would have also meant buying a truck to tow it on their travels, and subjecting their home to hurricane - force winds.

«We didn't want to just build barriers; we wanted to build an ecosystem,» said Henk Ovink, a Dutch water - management expert who now serves as a senior adviser to the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, a group within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has earmarked billions for the program.

As it rounded Greenland and entered the North Atlantic, it pulled behind it a thousand - mile - wide gale force wind field even as it lashed the tip of Greenland with Hurricane force gustAs it rounded Greenland and entered the North Atlantic, it pulled behind it a thousand - mile - wide gale force wind field even as it lashed the tip of Greenland with Hurricane force gustas it lashed the tip of Greenland with Hurricane force gusts.

By the time it reaches the coast, hurricane - force winds, known as katabatic winds, result.

The stadium wave holds promise in putting into perspective numerous observations of climate behavior, such as regional patterns of decadal variability in drought and hurricane activity, the researchers say, but a complete understanding of past climate variability and projections of future climate change requires integrating the stadium - wave signal with external climate forcing from the sun, volcanoes and anthropogenic forcing.

However, many scientists believe that, much as in the case of hurricanes, higher sea temperatures resulting from the greenhouse effect could strengthen the force of El Niño events and increase their rate of occurrence.

They commute in 72 - foot self - righting boats that can roll over 360 degrees as winter gales and sometimes hurricane - force storms blast out of the North Pacific.

I think he said that hurricanes pick up more force from warm water, and as far as I know, that's a scientific fact, correct me if I'm wrong.

With a rise in the overall temperature of the ocean, ocean - borne storms such as tropical storms and hurricanes, which get their fierce and destructive energy from the warm waters they pass over, could increase in force.

Having a safe room built for your home or small business can help provide near - absolute protection for you and your family or employees from injury or death caused by the dangerous forces of extreme winds such as tornadoes and hurricanes.

These maps measure and illustrate the convergence of social vulnerability factors (such as economic standing and age, among others) and four environmental hazards: flooding, hurricane force winds, sea - level rise, and drought.

The El Nino condition in the Pacific Ocean is one factor which can increase «wind shear» over the Atlantic, thereby limiting hurricanes even as other forces may be strengthening them.

Around the globe, extreme events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and heat waves increasingly result in forced migration and loss of life, property, and security.

In weather / climatology neither the force of Hurricane Katrina nor the climate changes over the past 4 billion years give much information as to what has happened over the past 1,000 years.

While NOAA relies on the Air Force Reserve's «Hurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne DopplHurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Doppler radar.

As hurricane winds increase, the force of the wind does not increase linearly, but exponentially.