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At this point, she'd covered over 1,000 miles, had had no radio contact in more than two weeks following a storm that disabled all her long-range communications systems just five days in.
After 12 days of storm I get to row for four hours without a flagging wind.
She was two thirds of the way there, but in the storm, the waves were the size of a seven-story building.
Here's what it feels like for me: I am instantly an internal storm of contrasting emotions.
The combination of "Rain Man," the changes to the criteria, and the introduction of these tests created a network effect, a perfect storm of autism awareness.
We are forging ahead of a huge storm.
If we didn't sail fast enough, we'd be engulfed by that storm, and either capsized or smashed to pieces.
My personality switched from being shy and awkward to being defiant and cursing out a storm.
And we thought, "Oh, they're going to storm the gates, they're gonna love it."
And on January 2 this year, an elderly guy who lives in the village, he went out to see what was cast ashore during a recent storm.
And this is the perfect storm for forming a pimple.
The structures that they build protect our shorelines from storm surge and waves, and the biological systems that they house filter the water and make it safer for us to work and play.
And on the eastern end of the island, where the reefs are intact and thriving, you could barely tell a tropical storm had passed.
But in town, where corals had died from overfishing, from pollution, the tropical storm picked up the dead corals and used them as bludgeons to kill the corals that were left.
And after this storm took off half of its tissue, it became infested with algae, the algae overgrew the tissue and that coral died.
The next time you see a news report of a hurricane or a tropical storm showing high winds battering trees and houses, ask yourself, "How did the wind get going so fast?"
With the dramatic low pressure in a storm, the air gets pulled in tighter and tighter, so it gets going faster and faster, and this is how we get the high winds of a hurricane.
So, when you see a spinning storm on a weather report, think about this: The spin ultimately came from the spin of the Earth, and the Earth's spin is a remnant, a fossil relic, of the gentle spin of the cloud of dust and gas that collapsed to make the Earth some five billion years ago.
And when we did that, we had to build storm sewers to get the water that fell on the cities out before it could cause flooding, and that's a waste of a vital water resource.
This figure here shows the stormwater park that they're building by hooking a series of stormwater collection systems, or storm sewers, and routing that water into an abandoned gravel quarry.
Super Typhoon Haiyan went over areas of the Pacific five and a half degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal before it slammed into Tacloban, as the most destructive storm ever to make landfall.
And they funnel all of that extra water vapor over the land where storm conditions trigger these massive record-breaking downpours.
Take a look at this storm last August.
Every storm is different now."
Speaking of the North Pole, last December 29, the same storm that caused historic flooding in the American Midwest, raised temperatures at the North Pole 50 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal, causing the thawing of the North Pole in the middle of the long, dark, winter, polar night.
It comes up through the storm sewers.
Mangroves are bulldozed to make room for shrimp farms, robbing coastal communities of storm protection and natural water filtration and depriving fish of key nursery habitats.
And as climate changes, this is creating a perfect storm for extreme events, like the massive mountain pine beetle outbreak that just swept across North America, or that megafire in the last couple months in Alberta.
Do you know that feeling you get when you know it's going to storm before it storms?
So one day, I was standing on a corner waiting for the light to change, which, I'm a New Yorker, so that means I was actually standing in the street on the storm drain, as if that could get me across faster.
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