Sentences with phrase «of getting rained»

Many hit the road during this time of year to avoid the peak - season crowds and save more than a few bucks on flight and hotels, while others hunker down at home to avoid the risk of getting rained out — or worse, having to evacuate, in the event of an emergency.

If your big event has the chance of getting rained out this summer, or if you invited Kevin Federline as your guest of honour how will you recover losses when he doesn't show?

Similarly, the chance of getting rained on is pretty high, but the cost is very low, representing also a low risk.

Not exact matches

According to Julie Rains of OPEN Forum, some of the tell - tale signs of an unhealthy company culture include playing favorites, a lack of constructive feedback and criticism, small issues that get repeated over and over again, employees who are defensive and frequent bending of the rules.

In the Marines, we are often working in close quarters in really uncomfortable settings (like a chest deep fighting hole, and, oh yeah, it's probably raining), and if you can't get along in the group, you're not going to be able to effective leader or member of the team.

«I was going to bed every night and praying to the good Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,» said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand dollars for each acre - foot of water he can sell.

China's first space station, called Tiangong - 1 or «Heavenly Palace,» will soon break up over Earth into a fiery rain of space — and the predictions for when it's coming down are getting more exact.

Three days into the job, I got out of my car during a pouring rain.

It provides a place to get in out of the rain, have a cup of coffee, and chat with a friend.

With the Patagonia Torrentshell Packable Rain Jacket, you add just 12.2 ounces of weight to your gear or luggage and get a jacket the can be rolled or folded into a small enough package to fit in just about any bag.

Hover your mouse over the icon, and you get a brief description of the weather, such as «Light rain, 36 degrees Fahrenheit».

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

Winter is here, and it's about to get even colder in the northeastern and midwestern parts of the U.S. Winter storm Grayson has already begun delivering freezing rain and snow to states as south as Florida, coating Tallahassee with snow for the first time in 28 years.

By contrast, the heart of the Canadian Prairies, an area straddling the Alberta — Saskatchewan border, actually got more rain than usual in 2012.

«Those up in the north Bay Area — Humboldt County, Sonoma County — they get up to 40 inches of rain a year, which means animals covered in mud in the pastures, which can lead to illness in the animals,» Chief Executive Michael Marsh said.

It's smaller than, but comparable to, the huge amounts of rain we saw with Hurricane Harvey in Houston (some areas in the city got close to 50 inches).

Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gets better.

I can kind of see where you get this from — Matt 7 — God makes sun and rain go to both the unrighteous and righteous... I think it is an accurate view of the teachings we have been given (and it's humble).

I suppose you can't do much else to get it to rain, but I can't see what will come of false hope.

We got rid of the Sun gods, the rain gods, the cult of Mithrias is gone, all the gods in Norse, Greek, Roman, Egyptian mythologies have been disavowed.

As an example, warning someone that there is a less than 10 % chance of rain and suggesting they carry an umbrella is only going to get you laughed at.

yeah, we get a bunch of Southerns who can't find any racists to mingle with and they go nuts when they realize that it really does rain that much here.

Hey, I just got a text message from The Great Creator Serpent, in charge of Fertility, Growth and Refreshing Rain.

In the earliest stages of a religion people are typically looking for ways to explain the unexplainable, such as why it rains, why natural disasters happen, why people get sick, there are seasons, what the stars are, and countless other questions for which current science had no answer thousands of years ago.

I put on my rain coat, got a water hose ready (just in case), and lit the pile of wood.

Sometimes they align with a sort of poetic symmetry — the gentle rain at the funeral on September 11, the divorce papers arriving the day you get the cancer diagnosis.

We can feel or hear the score of peace but the rain is pouring and the cars are flying past and we are gripping the steering wheel just trying to get home.

He said: «The roof leaks, so my office under one of the corners gets flooded whenever it rains very hard and some of the stone work is coming off the outside of the building, so just things that need fixing.»

Frequent irresponsibilities are compared to tiny rain drops: if you get enough of them, they can cause a flood.

One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades.

10:11); He rained down fire from heaven and burned up the enemy soldiers who came to get Elijah (2 King 1:9 - 15); He killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers who were attacking Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:35); He blinded the false prophet Bar - Jesus, who stood against the teaching of Paul (Acts 13:9 - 11).

The words of bigots and naysayers mean very little to a man of faith like him - its like rain on a windshield - we got wipers for that @ssholes.

Dylan said that «Hard Rain» was written during the height of the Crisis as a way to encapsulate many of the songs he feared he might not ever get to write.

He entered on the 17th day of the 2nd month (Gen 7:11) and left on the 27th day of the 2nd month of the following year (Gen 8:14) There were 40 days of rain, 150 days of drifting, 150 days of receding water, 4 weeks for the recon birds to find land, 10 days between coming ashore and getting God's OK to disembark.

Then, just when it seems as if things can't get any worse, there will be yet another idiot in a trench coat standing on the edge of a waste dump, a dying rain forest, or a refugee camp, pointing the Camera at yet another problem» and then walking away.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

But if you have built you life on Jesus Christ, and obedience to His Word, when the storm comes, no matter how severe it is, no matter how the winds rage, no matter how the torrents of rain fall, no matter how high and violent the river gets, you will stand strong.

Theology (at least as I do it) is hardly serene, self - generated, or in control; it is barely able to get the ship in before the unexpected storm, or the clothes in out of the rain — and it is always gasping for breath!

It has been an unusual summer... first the cold wet start of it and then the heat and then storms... seems I had to run around and unplug everything every week or so... just disruptive to our regular routine... but we got the hay up without a drop of rain on it... so our record is now 5 years in a row of putting up good hay.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

It was raining and the roads were muddy; but this desire grew so strong that I kneeled down by the side of the road and told God all about it, intending then to get up and go on.

He will also get ready for battle by assembling his troops... which makes no damn sense because as soon as he gathered his troops, god rains down fire on him and cast him into the lake of fire and brimstone forever... so what's the purpose of releasing him for a thousand years and gathering up troops to fight a battle that will never happen??? Beats me!!

Port au Prince typically doesn't get hit directly by the hurricanes, but often gets a lot of the rain from them, so having improved sanitary conditions in camps that could be prone to flooding could be really helpful, digging ditches in the camps, these are all cash - for - work programs that could help with some of the rain that could come in the coming months.

The sound of rain tapping gently on my windows has inspired a sense of ethereal calm, and it's got me thinking we should stay in for dinner.

There were tornado warnings, my mom's town got 3 inches of rain in one hour — even the Eisenhower expressway was closed because of flooding.

While we don't get the snow - covered winters that most people picture when they think «Canadian winter», on Vancouver Island we do get an awful lot of rain.

If it had been raining the entire box would have been destroyed as there would have been no way of unloading it without getting water on the packets.

We will get a mixture of warm spring days, rain, sunshine, the bursting of green grass and also the occasional dump of snow.

It's back to winter coats today and I think we are supposed to get up to an inch of rain today.

When I got rained out of a morning of gardening, I knew this was the time, if the time was ever to be.