Sentences with phrase «by a tornado on»

That's why Kansas gets pummeled by tornadoes on a regular basis, while MD, VA, and DC are comparatively unscathed by natural disasters of any kind.

This came in very handy in 2011 when I was hit by a tornado on May 25th, smack in the middle of shipping season.

A separate Facebook page set up to reunite people in the area hit by a tornado on Sunday with their belongings and pets also showed entries for Moore residents overnight.

Not exact matches

If you still don't know, Sharknado is a low - budget movie produced by U.S. network SyFy about an out - of - control tornado that sucks up sharks from the ocean, then rains them down on Los Angeles.

The Tornados, supported by a Voyager tanker and a Reaper drone, dropped their Paveway IV guided bombs against six targets on an oilfield at Omar, «one of the ISIS's largest and most important oilfields,» according to the MoD.

Interestingly, one of the 8 RAF Tornados deployed at Akrotiri could be regularly tracked online during its transit from Cyprus to Iraq via Israel, Jordan, accompanied by a Voyager tanker: the example #ZA556 (the only «visible» aircraft in a formation of at least two planes) can be often spotted on Flightardar24.com as it flies into Israel, then into the Jordanian airspace before turning its transponder off to enter the Iraqi airspace.

But don't focus so much on the category number, which is determined solely by wind speed: It's the combination of wind, storm surge, rain, flooding, and even the possibility of tornadoes that are the biggest concern for much of the Florida peninsula.

Floods, tsunamis, droughts, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes and even plagues are some of the ways by which nature's immune system seeks to shout out — to cleanse and balance itself on earth.

You have yet to explain why places like Kansas are struck by tornadoes and why Missouri is flooded on a regular basis, you nincompoop.

innocent baby dropped on head and rendered a vegetable; happy parents killed by a tornado....

The tornado dropping out of the sky, the immersion of a person in water, words spoken by a person in a white alb on Sunday - these have no meaning apart from the value given to them by the community and its individual members.

On a more serious side, I have do have a problem believing in a personal God who supposedly has my best interests in mind — especially when I see thousands of certainly devout Christians rendered homeless by tornados, or dozens randomly killed by so - called «acts of God.»

What is SO REMARKABLE is that How Many Warnings HE has given us — Texas is on FIRE — The SOUTH is in a Forever Drought — The Mississippi Floods — Tornadoes wipe out Cities and STILL we Listen to MORONS that Listen to the HYPNOTISTS paid by the Coal and Oil Barons that try to convince you Global Warming isn't Destroying our Grandchildren's World.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

More than a dozen counties impacted by flooding and tornadoes in June and July should be made eligible for federal disaster relief, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced.

Although there aren't yet anemometers on the Martian surface to measure wind speed, the camera captured huge dust devils — much like our tornadoes — and provided evidence that the sand dunes on Mars are still being shaped by winds.

The lack of low - altitude radar coverage as a factor in tornado - warning lead times was not mentioned in «A Better Eye on the Storm,» by Jane Lubchenco and Jack Hayes.

Its camera captured huge dust devils — much like our tornadoes — and provided evidence that the sand dunes on Mars are still being shaped by winds.

For tornadoes rated above F0, the lowest rung on the original Fujita scale of tornado strength, the shift is also close to 14 days, according to a preliminary analysis by Long and his colleagues that's not included in the new paper.

A home destroyed by a tornado that struck Quapaw, Oklahoma on April 27, 2014.

Florida and areas on the Gulf of Mexico are wracked by hurricanes; New England and the Atlantic seaboard are battered by winter storms; the Midwest is a tornado - prone region; and counties along the Mississippi River are subject to recurrent flooding.

At 22, he was in the world's largest recorded tornado near El Reno, Okla., and was at one point only a few cars ahead of Tim Samaras — a man featured on the Discovery Channel's «Storm Chasers» — before Samaras was killed along with his son and another man when their car was picked up and tossed by the storm.

Led by Julie Demuth, a scientist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the study, «Explicating experience: Development of a valid scale of past hazard experience for tornadoes,» characterized and measured people's past tornado experiences to determine their impact on the perceived risks of future tornadoes.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters)- A warning from U.S. scientists that Oklahoma may be hit by a major earthquake has caused a run on insurance policies for tremors in the heartland state, adding to the woes of residents already in the firing line of devastating tornadoes.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters)- Rescue workers searched for survivors on Monday in the rubble left by a wave of tornadoes that ripped through the south - central United States a day earlier, killing at least 16 people in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa.

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Endor College is run by domineering headmistress Madam Mumblechook (Kate Winslet) and the oddball Doctor Dee (Jim Broadbent), and it's a realm of eerie beauty — alternating between steampunk bustle and space - age grandeur, a place of water - holograms and tornadoes of light, where fish sentries buzz about and people are carried on puffs of clouds.

A tornado on a Spider Bike, a riot of noise and impulsiveness topped by an impossible mop of ginger hair, she's the one who organizes a contest so that she and her friends don't face another summer of «snoresville.»

That is, until the final moments of the film, when Larry hears that he needs to have more medical tests done, followed by a shot of a tornado bearing down on his son in front of his school.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh (from whom the producers clearly hoped for a little Shakespearian oomph), the film opens as a cosmic tornado eases down on the smooth sands of New Mexico.

Although the characters face many moments of peril, including a tornado from the Wizard of Oz that descends on the castle, Meggie, who was abandoned as an infant by her mother (Sienna Guillory), fears losing her father the most.

The Hollywood sign mercilessly erased by an enormous tornado, the Statue of Liberty submerged by a gigantic tidal wave, the Empire State Building teetering perilously in a massive blizzard — apparently, the post-9 / 11 cinematic moratorium on destroying national landmarks for disposable summer kicks has lasted only two and a half years.

Once the fuse on the action is lit in American Ultra it lights up like a powder keg, exploding into a fiery tornado of adrenaline, that grabs you by the throat and never lets go.

Sometimes a game is just a game, but for one Alabama town whose high school was leveled by a tornado last year, the football team's success is a testimonial to the community's determination to carry on.

Hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes seem to sound like something on rails to victims cornered by television camera crews and asked (why do we ask?)

Estimating that it will spend more than $ 41 million responding to disasters which have struck America since March 31, the Red Cross, making a similar plea for assistance in a recent press release, said «The Red Cross is still on the ground in Joplin, Missouri providing meals, safe shelter, relief supplies and emotional support for people affected by the May 22 tornado.

Stuttgart was almost completely destroyed by an EF3 tornado on May 10, 2008.

On May 20, 2013, the town of Moore was struck by an EF5 tornado.

«However, when the Moore tornadoes hit, and I saw so many animals displaced by the destruction, I began to worry more about the safety of my pet — especially after seeing the story on the news about one of the pets who had been claimed by a displaced family, being accidentally euthanized.»

The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), at the request of Central Oklahoma Humane Society (OK Humane) in Oklahoma City, Okla., has dispatched its disaster response team to assist with shelter operations as the facility experiences an influx of animals affected by the devastating tornado that hit Moore, Okla. on May 20.

Most of the more than 200 Central Florida pets left homeless by February's deadly tornadoes have been reunited with their owners or taken in by new families.For shelter operators who worked around the clock for days to tend to stranded and injured pets, the task now is to place the 17 dogs and cats remaining from Orange, Osceola and Seminole, the hardest - hit counties.In the days after the storms, dogs with puppies, cats with litters on the way, even parakeets and guinea pigs were rescued by strangers or turned in by owners who didn't have a place for themselves, let alone their pets.

Several pet - product manufacturers are stepping up to help those pets affected by the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., on Monday.

Your special weapon is determined by your main weapon, and includes everything from a protective bubble, using a barrage of sub weapons without having to use your ink supply, one reveals enemy positions, another launches a tornado of ink at any location you desire by using the GamePad screen, and so on.

A large abstract pastel drawing of furious energy called «Twin Tornadoes» by the late Gilda Snowden, a beloved African - American artist from Detroit, hangs on the wall in Salort - Pons» office.

In commemoration of the victims of the devastating storms that ravaged Alabama and the South on April 27, 2010, the MMFA will install a small exhibition of art inspired by tornadoes, twisters, and windstorms.

On average, tornado deaths in the United States have gone from 8 per 1 million people in 1925 to 0.11 per 1 million people today — a trend largely attributed to early - warning systems fed by advanced meteorology and the introduction of Doppler radar.

I saw barely a mention of these realities in recent posts by climate - oriented bloggers on the tornado outbreak.

Here's the takeaway line from this study, by Kevin M. Simmons, an economist at Austin College, and Daniel Sutter an economist at the University of Texas - Pan American (both of whom provided valuable insight in a recent post on sources of vulnerability to tornadoes):

Think about floodplains and tornado alleys and so on, and the energy and materials cost of rebuilding saved by depopulating those areas.

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