Sentences with phrase «pelting rains»

With pelting rains, massive power outages due to downed utility lines, and whole cities underwater, hurricanes are serious business.

She hung on through high - winds, and pelting rains.

Anyway, it was 80 degrees and then this ferocious wind blew in from Canada (thanks, Canada) and brought pelting rain, which turned to snow.

The new William Friedkin movie, «Killer Joe,» starts with thunder and lightning, pelting rain, the yaps of a tethered dog, a down - at - heel Texas trailer park, and the static fuzz on a TV screen when there's nothing left to watch.

Dallas, Texas — Present Day Pelting rain against the back of his neck caused him to flinch, while the sound of thunder — as if to provide a soundtrack — boomed loudly in his ears.

Two drenched officials had come in from the pelting rain, dripped on all the proffered documents, and grumbled their way back again.

The pelting rain and thunderstorm did not dampen the spirits of the art loving denizens of New York City.

For at least 10 minutes she stood in the wind and pelting rain, watching the lake across the street flood its banks.

Not exact matches

yesterday, while the rain pelted down, I sat in my apartment with your cookbook and let out a series of sighs, giggles, and squeals, that I'm sure made my neighbors wonder what was up.

We have already stripped to our shorts, securing our shirts and trousers in a big wooden chest to keep them dry during the downpour, and the pelting of the rain is like a monstrous needle shower.

Pineapple was unbothered by the constant pelting of rain and exhibited enough energy to keep the fans cheering through the team conceding 2 goals at home.

Faced with a blizzard of criticism from angry parents forced to trudge with their kids to school through a nor» easter that dumped up to three inches of snow an hour on the Big Apple, a seemingly out - of - touch Chancellor Carmen Fariña defended the call to keep classes open Thursday — blindly declaring it «a beautiful day out there» as wet flakes and freezing rain continued to pelt New Yorkers.

The black - and - gold lepidopterans had just completed their annual migration from Canada and the eastern United States when the storm hit, pelting them with rain and snow and carpeting the ground with their frozen carcasses.

HOUSTON — Rain pelted this battered city anew Monday as emergency teams — aided by a growing contingent of citizen - rescuers — plunged into waist - deep water seeking people stranded by devastating, historic flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

As Texas rain pelts a trailer, a frantic Chris (Emile Hirsch) begs to be let in, and the door opens to reveal the luxurious crotch of his stepmother Sharla (Gina Gershon).

Smeared in the gore of her lost child, shaky and stumbling from blood loss and maternal panic, she battles winds snapping like bullwhips, rain that pelts with the ferocity of old world lapidation.

At take - off the plane climbs into the skies, pelted by rain, erratic winds and dark clouds.

As young hoods go to work robbing a telephone box, rain pelts down outside — and soon enough, we see that this surfeit of water has worked its way into the apartment of one of these minor toughs, Ah - tze (Chen Chao - jung).

Audiences who have seen the director's brilliant experimental documentary «The Arbor» (2011) and her heartrending drama «The Selfish Giant» (2013), know her skill at conjuring a bleakly enveloping sense of place, and this movie, with its wild, rugged moors pelted by sudden rains, is no exception.

We Need to Talk About Kevin: Akin to Lynne Ramsay's directorial approach only in miserable tone, the very best poster for We Need to Talk About Kevin abandons modern tendencies for an evocation of Renaissance art, its rain - pelted, window - shielded handling of subject calling to mind an aged, cracked portrait by Vermeer.

Frequently filming his heroines through half - concealed doorways and rain - pelted windows, and employing medium and long shots as well as closeups, Haynes uses these obscuring, distancing visual devices with an unerring sense of thematic purpose, slowly pulling us into a veiled world where scandalous truths are hidden in plain sight, and only a privileged (or cursed) few can see them clearly.

Plum - sized hail pelts the 4C's curvy red body, and then a thick wall of monsoon rain slams against the windshield.

Mike Rockenfeller stood fourth in GT Le Mans (GTLM) in the No. 3 Corvette as rain began pelting...

He handed off to Jordan Taylor at the one - hour mark, but 30 minutes later heavy rain pelted the circuit and caused numerous cars to slide off track in the monsoon.

Mike Rockenfeller stood fourth in GT Le Mans (GTLM) in the No. 3 Corvette as rain began pelting Daytona International Speedway.

Heavy rains pelted Elkhart Lake all day with the two Corvettes turning a limited amount of laps.

By the 23 - hour mark, both cars ranked among the top five in the class thanks to an aggressive wet tire strategy when rain began to pelt the circuit again.

A few minutes later the rain pelting my truck sounded like firecrackers.

And it's dynamic weather, where the rain takes many shapes — teeming, drizzling, blowing, pelting, and pouring straight down, to name a few — and storm fronts come through like conquering armies.

Hubby dashed inside to ask the owner if he knew where we might find overnight accommodation, while I stayed in the car listening to freezing rain pelt our car like a hail of bullets...

Every time you think you've worked out the big kink in that chapter, you're pelted with new guidance by a rain of tweets.

Rain pelted the bus's windows, further obscuring our view of the fog - shrouded countryside.

G'day lovely Beach Cottage ladies, well here we are rolling on into Christmas, I love this time of year don't you... as I sit here this afternoon the rain is absolutely pouring down, in fact I think it's pelting down... we have had very hot and stormy weather here, days of HOT temperatures and high humidity with sudden...

By Darryl Leniuk Special to The Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) March 28, 2009 With each paddle stroke, sea spray pelts my face like driving rain.

If you continuously slash and beat the chicken in Romani Ranch (about 10 - 15 times), it will shriek out a call for dozens and dozens of killer chickens to start raining down and pelt you to death in a matter of seconds!

Each canvas has the saturated light of afternoon sun, but rain and show pelt across two.

Slang words such as «Baltic», «sad», «chucking it down», «raining cats and dogs», «pelting it down» or «bucketing» are used far and wide to describ Read more

Have you ever fallen asleep with the rain pelting on the roof?

And then the rain came pelting down and the outing -LSB-...]

The local shops were shut, the next nearest shops had no undercover parking, lightning was scarily flashing and the rain was pelting down.

We almost cancelled because the rain was pelting down earlier in the day, but as I left work the skies were clearing, so we kept to Plan A and I took him on the school mums» walk I do every Saturday morning.

I'm not sure getting into a bubbling 35 - degree spa after all that excess was the wisest decision, but it was so atmospheric watching the rain pelt down as the spa bubbled and steamed around me.