Sentences with phrase «uprooted trees»

Already the Chicago Park District has spent nearly $ 500,000 removing uprooted trees from the Oct. 2 storm and repairing those with stripped bark and downed limbs.

Hurricane Irma plundered Florida's orange belt, leaving a trail of uprooted trees, downed fruit and flooded groves worse than anything growers say they have seen in more than 20 years.

After partially uprooting trees in a pattern that mimicked severe storm damage, researchers found that more than three - quarters continued to put out a full canopy of leaves the following spring.

Already, the Chicago Park District has spent nearly $ 500,000 removing uprooted trees and repairing others from the storm.

Strong, fierce winds uprooted trees, blew over power lines and damaged at least one building Sunday in Reading Center, about seven to 10 miles north of Watkins Glen in northern Schuyler County.

For them to say sorry also seems as miraculous as uprooting trees and planting them in the sea.

If the modern condition, as D. H. Lawrence once described it, is «a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air,» only big affirmations can replant us in the universe.

The rains which have continued for the past two days also uprooted some trees and bill boards and destroyed metal rails along some major roads.

Fenwick had a blast sniffing everything, burrowing under uprooted trees, and romping through piles of leaves.

However, sculptures like military processions, hunting scenes, elephants uprooting trees, feeding young ones, men attempting to capture elephants, journeys, rows of athletes, lady cooking and more secular scenes of everyday life speak all about the rich and amazing architecture of ancient time.

Windthrow − the wind's effect in damaging or uprooting trees − is an increasing problem.

Within a two - block walk I witnessed the wreckage: sidewalks impassable with downed century - old trees, cars crushed by fallen magnolia limbs, buildings smashed by towering eucalyptus, and the local park filled with uprooted trees, bent and broken branches.

The story of a twenty - year - old rich kid who learns to love life through his encounter with a woman sixty years his senior, Harold and Maude delights in everyday transgressions: uprooting trees from manicured suburban streets and returning them to the forest; parading a yellow umbrella past the dark faces of a funeral line; flipping a bird to repressive authority figures, whether they be mothers, priests, psychiatrists, soldiers or highway patrolmen.

So the researchers determined insect diversity within the three aforementioned windthrow sites, both in areas cleared of uprooted trees and in unsalvaged forest.

Under many weather related disasters, a series of high windstorms due to Hurricanes which tore the roof tops and uprooted the trees in September.

Hurricane Irene's powerful winds uprooted trees, flooded buildings and knocked over telephone poles.

In seconds, they can sweep trains off their tracks, uproot trees, and collapse entire buildings.

But Maria is currently sustaining 140 mph winds, which can destroy homes, uproot trees, and knock out power for months.

That kind of wind can destroy homes, uproot trees, and knock out power for months.

The storms in the Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan states have caused blackouts, uprooted trees and destroyed houses.

Winds as high as 115 mph have uprooted trees and heavy -LSB-...]

Cyclone Hudhud wrecked homes, uprooted trees, tore down power and communication lines, cut off road and rail links, and flooded thousands of acres of farmland in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

In order to investigate the meaning to be attributed to «faith» as Jesus used it, we have to consider, in addition, the complex of sayings about faith «moving mountains» or «uprooting trees».

If the new world turns its back on the past heritage it may find itself to be like an uprooted tree, which will wither and die, and cultural thorns and thistles will spring up where once it proudly stood.

«During those first months in Rome, I felt like an uprooted tree» (p. 255).

Six months after Hurricane Maria hit the island on September 20, 2017, uprooting trees, destroying homes, and causing widespread flooding, many remain without power.

No injuries have been reported as severe storms ripped through the area Thursday, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines.

Fire whirls can extend hundreds of feet into the air, uproot trees, and cause fatalities.

At the time, wildlife managers worried that if there were too many elephants in a fenced reserve, like the famed Kruger National Park, the behemoths would ultimately destroy the habitat, eating or trampling all the vegetation and uprooting the trees.

In Africa, elephants (Loxodonta africana) mainly browse woody species, changing the landscape by pushing over, breaking, or uprooting trees, creating openings in the forest and helping maintain grasslands.

Sure, an elephant can uproot a tree, but anyone who has ever watched an ant pick up a potato chip can attest to the fact that smaller animals have the highest strength - to - weight ratios.

Category 4 hurricanes — which feature sustained winds between 209 and 251 kph (130 and 156 mph)-- typically snap or uproot trees and power poles, destroy older mobile homes and can leave areas «uninhabitable for weeks or months,» according to the NHC.

We find dramatic changes in the spectral signature of the forests associated with damage, tree mortality, uprooted trees, stripped leaves, and canopies.»

«When the storm's dangerous winds sub - sided and district school resource officers and staff members were able to safely access our fa - cilities, they found sites scattered with debris — consisting of partial roofs, shingles, gutters, metal awnings, downed power poles, damaged and uprooted trees, and destroyed fences,» Jak - lich said.

The effect of dragging a huge iron bar across the savannah is to break off every outcrop and uproot every tree, bush, and flowering plant, stirring columns of birds into the air.

Uprooted trees, resultant fires and flying debris have the potential to cause dents, scratches and destruction.

These once remarkably green islands covered in lush vegetation are now brown covered in uprooted trees and debris from destroyed homes and buildings.

However, once Hurricane Irma blew through they were left with all of their shade trees completely uprooted and their kennels, play yards and perimeter fencing all destroyed by these uprooted trees.

If the uprooted trees on our ride towards the city felt foreboding, a beer named after a Hendrix song seemed quite the opposite.

Tenerife and La Palma were the worst hit, with landslides, uprooted trees and parts of the heliport at Tenerife's University Hospital being ripped clean off.

It's impressive to see a battle in full flow as well, an explosion sending the corpses of men flying or uprooting a tree.

With a simple pairing of disused rocking chairs and part of an uprooted tree, «Him and Her Hold the Root» (1994) elegantly conjures thoughts of the entanglements of love and the depths of heritage, loss and death.

The heterogeny of built, found and just - dropped entities included, along with plants, animals and piles of this and that, the beehived Modigliani nude, an uprooted tree once planted by the German artist Joseph Beuys and a bench by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster.

The Last Tree serves as both performance and installation, like the uprooted tree bursting into a gallery skylight by David Brooks, his machine in the garden, or the layers of earth in photography by Letha Wilson.

The last time that the Chinese art star Zhang Huan made a public appearance here, just over a decade ago, he was lying face down on an uprooted tree, naked, covered with dog food.

Antoine - Xavier - Gabriel de Gazeau (1801 - 1881) Uprooted Tree, Olevano, 1833 Oil on paper, mounted to board Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw

The Blanco River transformed minute - by - minute from a docile neighbor into a devastating invader, uprooting trees from the riverbank, carrying entire houses downstream and destroying bridges and other infrastructure.