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And together we got through the eye of the financial storm in Iceland without taking any direct losses to our equity or to the funds of our clients.
All that green stuff actually naturally absorbs storm water, also helps cool our cities.
Suddenly there was a storm and huge waves.
Now remember, northern India is the perfect storm when it comes to polio.
And if you see the benefits of the mangrove in terms of the storm protection and cyclone protection that you get and in terms of the fisheries, the fish nurseries, that provide fish for the poor, that answer is more like $11,000.
There is a kind of perfect storm around opioids.
And then Seattle decided to use it to get citizens to clear out clogged storm drains.
But when I stepped back, I felt myself at the cold, hard center of a perfect storm.
Over the last century, we've become 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car crash, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, 89 percent less likely to be killed by an act of God, such as a drought, flood, wildfire, storm, volcano, landslide, earthquake or meteor strike, presumably not because God has become less angry with us but because of improvements in the resilience of our infrastructure.
We live across the street from a historic church that had lost its very iconic steeple in the storm.
In New Orleans, the I-10 Twin Spans, with sections knocked out in Katrina, have been rebuilt 21 feet higher to allow for greater storm surge.
While it's true that many who died in Katrina did not have access to transportation, others who did refused to leave as the storm approached, often because available transportation and shelters refused to allow them to take their pets.
In the U.K., the Thames Barrier protects London from storm surge.
New York City is incredibly vulnerable to storms, as you can see from this clever sign, and to sea level rise, and to storm surge, as you can see from the subway flooding.
So when the storm is coming up, it drives a pin into the ground.
The most massive tsunami perfect storm is bearing down upon us.
This perfect storm is mounting a grim reality, increasingly grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable.
Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion people, land that is turning to desert, and, of course, climate change.
Aldo Leopold said this was a biological storm, a feathered tempest.
In my continued exploration of subjects in nature that have the ability to illustrate the interconnection of all life, I started storm chasing in 2008 after my daughter said, "Mom, you should do that."
Soldiers storm the door.
We have weathered the storm, in Greece and in Europe, but we remain challenged.
One cloud that people rarely miss is this one: the cumulonimbus storm cloud.
Now then, by the age of 10, Derek really had taken the world by storm.
Being constantly on the move means that sometimes I am able to catch life's most unpredictable moments, like here in New York the day after the Sandy storm hit the city.
Then we also wanted to look at other ways of using land in addition to growing food and transforming landscape into much more productive uses, so that it could be used for storm water management, for example, by using surface lakes and retention ponds, that created neighborhood amenities, places of recreation, and actually helped to elevate adjacent property levels.
In 1963, a storm ripped up the harbor in a small South African town called East London, and while he was watching his kids playing with toys made from oxen bones called dolosse, he had the idea for this.
We're here living in the eye of a great storm of extinction where half the species on the planet could be gone by the end of the century, and so why is it that we come to care about some of those species and not others?
This boy is a professional dancer, only 12 years old, but at secondary school, he hides his dancing classes and is wearing the mask of brutality, trying to be united with the rest of his classmates like a storm trooper has no personality.
This is a 20-man version for going to Jupiter: bunks, storm cellars, exercise room.
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