Sentences with phrase «worse than the storm»

For the world without Jesus, there's something much worse than storms and plagues coming down the pike, namely God's judgment.

Not exact matches

that might result in an even «badder» deal than his predecessor signed with Iran or forcing him to storm out of the negotiations in a huff.

«Sandy event is much more severe... and has impacted NYC to a much worse degree than Irene,» RMS said in a storm report early Tuesday.

As the storm hits many of same places that have been battered by hurricane Irma, Hull said the repetitive damage is worse than weather in previous years.

One fire storm, no matter how bad, is no more evidence for global warming than a big blizzard is evidence against it.

And she knows that she can not create it by forcing it; she has to respect the personality of the child; and to try to take the citadel by storm would be worse than useless, and would produce fear and distrust instead of confidence....

They are also more fragile than other types of distinctive roofing, so you may have to replace a few every now and then after a bad storm or heavy winds that knock branches onto your roof.

More than 40 days after the onslaught of floods brought on by Tropical Storm «Sendong,» there are good news and bad news.

«Storming the court to free people who are on trial is worse than sitting on radio and threatening the court.

A private legal practitioner, and a member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Ace Ankomah, has said that the crime committed by members of pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group, Delta Force, when they stormed an open court in Kumasi and set their colleagues free, is worse than the infamous Montie three case.

Superstorm Sandy may have been the worst disaster to hit the LIPA electric grid, but the storm's aftermath brought a wave of changes that included a new system operator, badly needed technology and infrastructure upgrades, and more than $ 1.4 billion in federal funding to repair and prepare for the next big storm.

The absence of a government in Somalia for more than 20 years, no focused way to address widespread food insecurity, and the worst dry seasons in 60 years have, she said, created a «perfect storm» making response measures even more difficult.

According to lightning records, storms that had absorbed the smoke zapped the ground with three times the usual number of positively charged lightning strokes, which typically last longer than negatively charged ones and can inflict worse damage.

A perfect storm of shifting demographics, dwindling oil and poor health could ultimately leave an independent Scotland worse off than the rest of the UK

Some years are worse than others, but if all the storms of the past century and a half were to hit at once, this is where they'd be.

Mexico suffered its worst floods on record in mid-September when tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid converged from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, killing more than 150 people and causing damage estimated at around $ 6 billion.

Even if hurricanes change very little over the coming century, sea level rise means that storm surge events will be worse than they are today.

Actually, it was she who created the storm and a dramatic shipwreck, which sweeps to the island her old enemies, including bad bro» Antonio, Alonso the King of Naples (a nobler - than - thou David Strathairn) and his brother Sebastian (a foppish Alan Cumming).

The touch screen, well it doesn't work well, in instances it works even worse than the one on the Storm, I don't think I've seen a worse touch screen to be honest.

Ultimately, a perfect storm of high prices, shifting interests, poor timing, and bad decisions killed the LaserActive, and Pioneer ended support for it in 1995, a little less than 2 years after launching it.

Weather seems to be quite random and chaotic although we can discern some truths, one of which is that we've seen it all before and the other that severe weather - storms etc - seemed to be much worse during the LIA than they are toda.

«The planet has been through a lot worse than us... been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages — and we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?»

Those who declare Hurricane Sandy a harbinger of worse storms to come base their claims on faulty weather models and speculation rather than actual scientific data, says Ed Hiserodt, science and technology writer for The New American.

And current climate change trends could easily increase the chance of bad flooding — there's more water vapor in the atmosphere now (ready to condense into storm clouds and precipitation), for example, than there was 70 years ago.

I would have thought it impossible to find a seacoast city worse prepared for a storm than was New Orleans, but New York seems to have surpassed it.

That's more than twice the amount of warming so far, which is already leading to more powerful storms, worse heat waves, and less predictable monsoons and cold snaps.

Reading through tens of thousands of records it is noticeable that the violence and number of storms and extreme weather was worse in the past than it is today.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

James Hansen, formerly head of NASA GISS published a new study Tuesday March 22nd in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, claiming global warming, sea level rise, and severe storms, could be (paraphrasing) «worse than we thought».

All that said, with all the talk about the conditions combining to make this such an unusual storm, there's one thing that really caught my eye, yet hasn't been reported ad nauseum yet: Higher than normal ocean temperatures in the Northeast, may make all of this worse.

The I'm - not - calling - it - a-friggin-Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is by all accounts, from the near hysteric mainstream media to the more sober yet appropriately serious, concerned (and usually more accurate than everyone else) folks at Weather Underground, a big deal, with potential devastating rain, wind, and high storm surges made worse by the coincidence with the full moon.

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

What's worse than both of those options is being stuck in a connecting airport with no place to stay and no options but waiting out the storm.

Also known as «other than collision», this plan covers everything that a collision plan doesn't offer such as fire, theft, flood, damage to car glass, damage due to falling object, animal attack, vandalism, damage due to bad weather, storm, cyclone etc..

There's nothing worse than going on a vacation to your condo only to walk in and discover your condo was damaged because of a recent storm.

Its 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited score of 7,792 is worse than the score for the average smartphone (14,778) and every other competing handset other than the Idol 3 (6,384).

Notching 4,623 on the graphics test 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, the Grand X3 fared worse than the Idol 3 and the Honor 5X.