Sentences with phrase «flats in a strong wind»

An old city can lose its industrial foundation and two - thirds of its people, while all its mainstays — churches, government, businesses, charities, unions — fall like building flats in a strong wind, hardly making a sound.

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This assists in achieving a stable, flat ride longitudinally (on pitching roads, for example) and latitudinally (in strong cross winds, for example).

Towan beach and the Newquay bay in general are flat beaches, the natural lea of Towan headland protecting them from the majority of strong currents and winds, helping to keep the sand compact and rip currents to a minimum.

Far Western Victoria is open to the elements; cold water, strong winds and big swell are common in the winter while the summer provides heat waves and flat spells.

Here in Tuban it was pretty well flat between Kuta reef and Airports with a strong SE wind grinding up to 20knot by midday.

Environment Canada described the Red Deer storm as a «plow wind» which results in strong, flat winds moving in a line after a number of similar storms have collected alongside each other.