Sentences with phrase «ones like hurricane»

At the time of writing, 10 hurricanes have already been recorded, including major ones like Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria.

And these are typical hurricanes, not extraordinarily intense ones like Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and Hurricane Maria.

Not exact matches

If the region in which your headquarters is located is hit with a natural disaster like a hurricane or the power goes out in your building or city, but you have five or 15 or 50 employees spread out across the community, county or even the country, your entire business isn't suddenly out of commission, and all of your data isn't in one place.

In Panama you can have it all: a cosmopolitan capital city with one of the world's largest financial districts... hundreds of miles of spectacular beaches... highland retreats with green valleys where the weather is spring - like, even in January and August... and did you know that there are never any hurricanes?

In Panama you can have it all: a cosmopolitan capital city with one of the world's largest financial districts... hundreds of miles of spectacular beaches... highland retreats with green valleys where the weather is spring - like, even in January and August... and as Jim and Abbe Gault can tell you, there are never any hurricanes.

Almost one month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, technology firms like Tesla are stepping in to fill the relief - effort void that many say President Donald Trump has created.

I smite like no one else, I'll show you evil, quakes, tornado, hurricanes, massive polar shifts, hail, locusts, disease, famine like no one can you puny pets.

Has he experienced anything like a true hurricane and its devastation, especially one like this one that moves slowly and floods everything in its path?

Like all hurricanes, this one tended to dissipate as it went north for reasons having nothing to do with religion or politics and everything to do with temperature gradients and jet stream wind shear.

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

One - time events, like a car accident or a particularly severe natural disaster (like a hurricane, for example), can take a psychological toll on children as well.

In one corner, Hurricane Sandy; a natural disaster the likes of which New York has never seen, which has left nothing but chaos and destruction in its wake.

«In contrast to events like hurricanes or earthquakes, volcanic unrest can last for long periods of time, and that's one reason people stop paying attention to the hazards that are looming,» said volcanologist Greg Valentine, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of geology and director of the Center for GeoHazards Studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

In the short term, the biggest threat to Florida's long - term existence in the context of sea - level rise is also one of its most familiar threats: a big hurricane like 1992's Andrew or 2012's Superstorm Sandy.

So one thing, for example, is, as you might imagine, Fidel Castro got very annoyed at the idea that we might be doing something like trying to steer hurricanes because he was worried we were going to use them as a weapon — an incredible weapon for devastating Cuba, so he was convinced that's what we were trying to do.

There's been an enormous amount of work, obviously, on studying hurricanes and trying to figure out better ways to protect against them but, also, the surprising amount of work going back into, I believe, the «50s for when people — and the U.S. government, for example, studying like whether or not it might be possible to steer a hurricane or be able to stop one.

While some horrible things like the hurricane Irma or international political issues like the ones in Turkey have occurred, we've also made great steps forward.

Set during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this movie reminded me of survival and isolation movies like Castaway starring Tom Hanks or 127 hours starring James Franco in the sense that the movie is almost a one man show on how someone defies unfathomably circumstances in order to survive.

They're all down in Atlanta filming whatever the next Avengers movie is, Avengers: Chipwrecked I think, and have decided to band together, like only the Avengers can, to do a one - night - only reading to benefit hurricane relief in Puerto Rico.

Another South Florida canal has given up a murky mystery — and it looks like Hurricane Irma helped solve this one.

But the difficulties alleged by the rating agencies failed to appear, unless they were somehow sloshed into the hurricane disasters of 2004 - 5, or like eating an elephant — one bite at a time.

The economic repercussions of natural disasters like the one caused by Hurricane Harvey can be devastating.

One of the sad realities of natural disasters like major hurricanes is that gaining a full understanding of their full impact takes days and sometimes weeks.

While there are many fine charities like the Salvation Army and Red Cross that help hurricane victims, one I recommend is called the Jesse Tree.

Like many hotels in San Jose del Cabo, the One & Only Palmilla experienced significant damage following the hurricane in 2014.

Unprecedented hurricanes like the one that flooded Houston, the massive rains and flooding that have struck southern Asia for the past several weeks, and the fires that have raged across the American west will come more and more.

You can jump in with a kick, follow up with a one - two punch and cancel it into a hurricane kick and finish with a 3 - hit Dragon Punch just like in Street Fighter.

You'll want to use the left stick to move and the right stick to turn just as in any other FPS, but the fact you can also turn your body whichever way you like can lead to odd situations where you move one way while turning the other and end up feeling like you're on a ferry in a class - 5 hurricane.

When change and controversy hit the museum like a hurricane in 2012, Ruiz was one of only two curators left on staff following a series of high - profile firings and resignations.

Like the way Hurricane Sandy threw itself at New York City, Bui's Come Together attempts to throw back the energy of the art community now, nearly one year later — and Bui did it all in three months.

This seems like it's going to keep tropical waters hotter and thus promote more hurricanes (in agreement with what Gray says (if one interprets his statements as referring to the portion of the atlantic circulation — the subtropical gyre — that delivers more warm water to the tropics).

He notes that this one is mainly a warmup, given that storms like this one, below Category 3, comprise 80 to 90 percent of those that hit land but cause only 15 to 20 percent of hurricane damage.

In the real world, power does not mean that one can order other people around — power means force intensity, measured in units like watts per square meter or equivalent 1 kiloton explosions (on the order of 10,000 per hurricane).

It looked like they'd line up better with temp moved back one year so: Hurricane energy versus temp offset back on year (temp slope removed) http://tinypic.com/r/331kbjt/4

Even if this one hurricane had nothing to do with climate change, it seems like people are at least starting to pay attention to the issue.

It's mid-October and the Atlantic hurricane season has been one of the quietest on record — and the computer models predicted nothing remotely like that.

They know it from days and nights that are hotter than in the past; from more frequent and more intense hurricanes or freak years like the last one when there were none; from long periods of dry weather followed by unseasonable heavy rainfall and flooding; and from the recognisable erosion of coastal areas and reefs.

The intensity of hurricanes and frequency of the strongest ones like Maria has also increased since the 1980s, a trend expected to continue as the planet warms.

Cornell and Rutgers researchers report in the March issue of Oceanography that the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice - attributed to greenhouse warming - appears to enhance Northern Hemisphere jet stream meandering, intensify Arctic air mass invasions toward middle latitudes, and increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one that steered Hurricane Sandy west into the densely populated New York City area.

«The past year has been one of the most devastating ever in terms of natural disasters... climate change [is] boosting the destructive power of disasters like hurricanes and flooding,» it proclaimed.

The past year has been one of the most devastating ever in terms of natural disasters... climate change [is] boosting the destructive power of disasters like hurricanes and flooding

It is one of cause and effect — more carbon expelled from power plants results in more heat waves, super storms like Hurricane Sandy, and respiratory diseases like asthma caused by toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.

El Nino has been linked to strong winter storms that batter Southern California, to a weak hurricane season in the Atlantic as high - altitude winds shear the towering tops from developing tropical storms, to searing droughts in southern Asia like the one that spawned enormous rain forest fires in Indonesia in 1997.

Such tenuous claims of attribution have about as much scientific standing as Pat Robertson saying that Hurricane Katrina was the result of the vengeful wrath of God... Like Pat Roberson's attribution of Katrina to the wrath of God in punishment for our sins, Krugman's attribution of unrest in the Middle East to the wrath of Climate in punishment for our sins is in one sense just emotive commentary from an uninformed pundit.

Short - term trends like one bad hurricane season are far too noisy to make any credible cause - effect link, even if a link may in fact exist.

One of the judicially noticed errors that Gore made was attributing individual weather events and natural disasters (like Hurricane Katrina) to climate change.

Like several other states on this list, Florida sits on the Gulf Coast, one of the nation's worst places for hurricanes.

I told him I could relate: one time, a hurricane hit New York and I couldn't use the internet for like, two days.

First, your policy will likely be divided into two (three if you add flood) premiums — one that covers perils like fire and the other for hurricane winds.

The design was revolutionary, the reviews were not great, and the company was plagued with an Old Testament-esque set of problems like fires and hurricanes, as well as new ones like lawsuits.