Sentences with phrase «wall of water»

These geological events can bring a towering wall of water into coastal regions.
It was like driving on black ice; at times it felt as if a solid wall of water was falling.
These towering, solitary walls of water can measure tens of meters in height and are difficult to predict, often occurring in calm seas with little warning.
Rogue ocean waves can develop seemingly out of nowhere to sink ships and overwhelm oil platforms with walls of water as much as 25 meters high.
He'll be both Aeolus and Neptune, but his ability to create walls of water will depend solely on the soundness of his physics.
If I know there is a twenty - five foot high wall of water coming down the canyon toward my house, I am not going to sit down to watch another episode of «American Idol».
Twenty - foot walls of water, stomach - turning heaves, pbj sandwiches lost at sea.
An international team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere to sink ships and overwhelm oil platforms with walls of water as much as 25 meters high.
The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life - threatening storm surges — walls of water rushing inland.
When you're looking at an 8 - foot - high wall of water in front of you that you are going to have to go up (because it's in the way); well, let's just say it's a rush.
Sailing history is rife with tales of monster - sized rogue waves — huge, towering walls of water that seemingly rise up from nothing to dwarf, then deluge, vessel and crew.
That day, the incoming wall of water reached 9 meters (29.5 feet) above normal in places.
In her latest exhibition Wall of Water, Hambling returns to the National Gallery.
With the Egyptian army at their heels, the Israelites were fearfully racing across the dry floor of the Red Sea as huge walls of water stood erect surrounding them, walls that would soon come crashing down to sweep away Pharaoh's chariots and soldiers.
Suddenly an eerie calm fell over the scene, and I looked out the broken windows to see a massive, roaring wall of water headed straight toward me.
(These more impressive walls of water seem to be a later elaboration on the Exodus tradition.
For instance, it is probable that what happened at the Red Sea — actually the Sea of Reeds — had more to do with darkness and an east wind and chariots mired in the mud and the change of the tide, than with the vertical walls of water rendered so picturesquely by Cecil B. DeMille.
How can these people, we ask, after experiencing a miraculous liberation from a first - class oppressor, after watching the enemy collapse under walls of water, after waking up with manna at their feet — how can they carp about not having water?
Regain a healthful balance with curative treatments at Spa Terra — a lavish underground spa with steam grottoes, soaking pools, treatment alcoves and tranquil walls of water.
A surging wall of water gushed through the pocket parks and tree - lined streets of downtown Brisbane, saturating trendy boutiques, stately government buildings, and gleaming glass skyscrapers.
Called rogues or freaks, such waves are the stuff of mariners» nightmares — towering, steep - faced walls of water that weigh millions of tons.
Japan's Port and Airport Research Institute has a flume to mimic tsunamis, built to generate one wall of water instead of a steady onslaught of waves.
One survivor at the Tacloban convention center said he would have evacuated if he had been told a tsunami - like wall of water might hit.
Or, «Holy shit, that enormous wall of water just picked up and slammed my car into the wall like a Tucker Max beer can?»
So is the arrival of Gran Mamare, which involves a gargantuan wall of water, a collection of stalled sailing vessels, and the moon.
The fish's desire to become human literally upsets nature's balance, causing the moon to move closer to the Earth, forming a huge static wall of water (yep, like the unused ending to The Abyss) and submerging the coastal town where Sosuke and Lisa live.
«A gigantic wall of water - heading directly for the ship!»
Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons are in the midst of an idyllic holiday vacation at a new resort on the Thai coast when the massive wall of water strikes without warning.
On December 26, 2004 an earthquake in the Indian Ocean spawned a tsunami that struck South Asian coastlines with an incredible wall of water, leaving over 200,000 people dead in its wake.
The Blue Ridge Madam - built by Willa's great - great - grandfather during Walls of Water's heyday, and once the town's grandest home - has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal.
The dining room, all plush chairs and banquettes, faces the forest and wall of water behind Wynn's otherworldly Lake of Dreams.
This leads past a feature wall of bamboo and a cascading wall of water.
Exactly a month later, the river overflowed again, this time sending a crushing wall of water down the flood plain.
With its shimmering walls of water and cool silver palette, la prairie spa is a refreshing oasis that offers a tranquil respite from the Caribbean sun.
On the surface of a giant blue wall of water, the tiny figure of the speeding surfer invites reflection on the life of an artist, on ego and fame, naiveté and bravery, loneliness and mortality.
The passages of heavy impasto and deliberate mark - making continually remind us of the material substance of the paint, and in doing so bar us from entering into the subject or scene of the painting in a way that is echoed by the imagery itself: a closed gate, a drawn curtain, a screen of branches, a turgid wall of water crowding out the sky.
... Sandy had driven a 4 - metre wall of water into low - lying neighbourhoods, destroying homes, flooding transportation tunnels and leaving millions of people without power.
In July of 1895 in Casper, WY, a 20 - foot tall wall of water flooded Westwood School, killing an encampment of settlers.
Appearing Rooms is a systematically changing installation with walls of water that create rooms which appear...
A different sort of wall of water — a storm surge — swamped low - lying ground some 360 million years ago in what's now Scotland.
An interview with painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling as she prepared for her exhibition Walls of Water
Okay, so I sign that treaty, get it passed, pass all the laws to get us running the economy on hope and dew drops and then no 20 foot wall of water?
On August 8, 1975, the dam collapsed and sent a wall of water nearly 20 feet (6 meters) high and 7.5 miles wide (12 kilometers) downriver, according to a summary of a chapter in the book «The River Dragon Has Come!»
«Summer» boasted grass for a picnic, and «spring» had a wall of water.
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