As late as August 31 it had been projected by the National Hurricane Center that the hurricane would remain at Category 3 or above on September 1, but in the event the center of Gustav made landfall as a strong Category 2 hurricane ( 1 mph below Category 3 ), and dropped to Category 1 soon after.

Prior to that event, the vessel is referred to as " USS Name ," but afterward the " USS " is dropped and it is referred to as " ex-Name.

The Madison was a Summer Olympic event for men from 2000-2008, but was dropped ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.

The story is fiction, though Lindsay dropped hints that it was based on an actual event.

The ridge was as little as wide at its narrowest point and dropped off quickly on its eastern side, all but eliminating the possibility of counterattacks in the event an Allied assault captured the ridge.

As a result, the requirement to shut down in the event of an activation of the system was dropped and the message became:

On the seventh night after the event, with lightning, throwing sparks, the corpse of her husband stood before the woman who dropped dead of fright.

The event was named after a lottery where participants bet on numbered, varnished pieces of moose feces, or " moose droppings " dropped from a helicopter onto a target.

After New York City officials nixed MTV's plans to hold a " Snooki Drop " alongside the Times Square Ball in Times Square New Year's Eve 2010 – 11, MTV moved the event ( in which Jersey Shore cast member Nicole Polizzi is dropped in a ball ) to Seaside Heights.

He summered frequently at Knollwood Club on Lower Saranac Lake during World War II, and it was there on August 6, 1945 that he heard on the radio that that atom bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima ; he gave his first interview after the event at Knollwood, on August 11.

The court opined that the nativity scene should be dropped from the pageant or the government end its participation in the event in order to avoid " excessive entanglements " between government and religion.

In 2011, the unofficial Jamaica event was dropped and a tournament in Mexico was canceled months in advance over security concerns.

The event was a success ; even though the purse dropped in the 1974 race, the popularity caused the field of mushers to rise to 44, and corporate sponsorship in 1975 put the race on secure financial footing.

* High availability extensions: improving IKE / IPsec-level protocol synchronization between a cluster of IPsec endpoints and a peer, to reduce the probability of dropped connections after a failover event ( RFC 6311 ).

In World of Warcraft, the Ruby Slippers are a pair of level 70 epic cloth shoes dropped by the Wizard of Oz-themed " opera event " in the Karazhan raid instance.

The Million Youth March was made an annual event, but popularity dropped rapidly.

He held the title until NWA's first pay-per-view event Starrcade in November, when he dropped it to Dusty Rhodes in a steel cage.

When Maynard ’ s own marriage ended in 1989 — an event she explored in print — many newspapers dropped the “ Domestic Affairs ” column, though it was reinstated in a number of markets in response to reader protest.

Thorne ( 1994 ) relates that this approach to studying black holes was prompted by the realisation by Hanni, Ruffini, Wald and Cohen in the early 1970s that since an electrically charged pellet dropped into a black hole should still appear to a distant outsider to be remaining just outside the event horizon, if its image persists, its electrical fieldlines ought to persist too, and ought to point to the location of the " frozen " image ( 1994, pp. 406 ).

Later publications tell of the full story, about how Zeon dropped a Space colony ( Gundam ) onto Earth and during the process, killed half of the population of the whole Earth sphere, including the space colonies, which was retconned to be the One Week Battle and the civilian casualties estimated to be much higher ( 4. 8 ~ 5 billion during the war and 3 billion after the war ) during the war due to the aftermath of the disastrous event, just like the atomic bombs and communication interference by the introduction of Minovsky particle.

It might have been that the deep valley proved difficult to bomb but in any event there were few recorded bombs dropped and those that were dropped might have been from bombers dumping unused bombs on their way home.

Dionne Warwick and the Impressions were advertised on some of the early posters for the event, but Warwick dropped out due to a conflict in booking that weekend: she was booked at the Fairmont Hotel and it was thought that if she canceled that appearance it would negatively affect her career.

One such caldera, the Bruneau-Jarbidge caldera in southern Idaho, was formed between 10 and 12 million years ago, and the event dropped ash to a depth of one foot ( 30. 48 cm ) away in northeastern Nebraska and killed large herds of rhinoceros, camel, and other animals at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park.

The House Ethics Committee began a probe into the event, but it was later dropped.

In the 2007 re-brand, the Airport branding was dropped, although the ' Airport ' coding is still used on tickets.

By the second week, the film dropped a 52 % on tickets sales, ranking at number 5 on the Box Office.

By the end of the 1960s the cumbersome appendences were dropped in favour of plain Longfield, although the longer name survived on some signs and tickets well into the next decade.

When the partner dropped out she rewrote the show in the three weeks leading up to the festival but retained the title in order not to negate the value of the advance publicity or confuse those who had already purchased tickets.

Subsequently, B-52G bombers flew more than 200 17-hour bombing missions over 44 days and dropped more than of bombs on Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait.

Gene Tierney was initially cast in the role, but due to emotional problems dropped out at the last minute, and the studio flew Kelly to Los Angeles to audition in September 1952.

Accounts exist of ninja being lifted into the air by kites, where they flew over hostile terrain and descended into, or dropped bombs on enemy territory.

By 15 July, when Stauffenberg again flew to the Wolfsschanze, this condition had been dropped.

Birds dropped dead when they flew too close to the tower.

A crow witnessed the opening and flew away to tell Athena, who fell into a rage and dropped the mountain ( now Mt.

A crow witnessed the opening and flew away to tell Athena, who fell into a rage and dropped the mountain ( now Mt.

A crow saw them open the box, and flew away to tell Athena, who fell into a rage and dropped the mountain she was carrying ( now Mt.

During four months of combat in the Korean War, the group flew 335 sorties with only fourteen aborts and dropped over 6, 500 tons of bombs.

By the end of the conflict in June 1999, B-1Bs from Ellsworth flew 100 combat missions and dropped over 1, 260 tons of Mk-82 general-purpose bombs.

During the war No. 75 Squadron flew a total of 350 sorties and dropped 122 laser guided bombs.

In August 1974, a New Zealand P3 Orion airplane flew to McMurdo and dropped mail via parachute and then returned to New Zealand.

In the 1970s Air Florida flew Electras out of PIE ; in 1982 Northeastern International started DC-8 nonstops to Islip, and in 1983 PeoplExpress started nonstops to Newark that Continental dropped in 1987.

In one of them, on January 24, 1913, the seaplane with two Greek pilots flew at 1200 meters over the Dardanelles from the European to the Asian coast, did a reconnaissance of the Turkish fleet, dropped 4 bombs and after 2 hours flight landed at sea near the island of Imbros.

Two Mirage squadrons flew a total of 515 sorties, and in 240 strike missions dropped 55, 000 kg ( 120, 000 lb ) of ordnance.

Both the Enola Gay and the Bockscar ( which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively ) flew their missions from Tinian ’ s “ North Field ”.

A crow saw them open the box, and flew away to tell Athena, who fell into a rage and dropped the mountain she was carrying ( now Mt.

Aided by the destroyer Velos, first Lieutenant Michael Moutoussis and Ensign Aristeidis Moraitinis flew the Maurice Farman hydroplane and drew up a diagram of the positions of the Turkish fleet, against which they dropped four bombs.

After finishing Los Asesinos ( 1968 ) in Mexico Adams bought a plane ticket with his own money and flew to Rome to co-star with Aldo Ray in a SciFi horror movie called Murder in the Third Dimension, but when he got there, he found the project had been dropped.

An airplane flew along the rainbands of the hurricane, and dropped nearly 180 pounds ( 82 kilograms ) of crushed dry ice into the clouds.

Between its inception and May 1945 the BAF flew 38, 340 sorties, dropped 6, 650 tons of bombs, delivered 16, 440 tons of supplies and flew 2, 500 individuals into Yugoslavia and 19, 000 ( mostly wounded ) out.

The court found that they had infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based organization that flew small aircraft over the Florida straits in efforts to rescue rafters fleeing Cuba, and had on some flights intentionally violated Cuban airspace and dropped leaflets.

Richthofen's men flew 750 sorties and dropped 388 tons of bombs.

Richthofen's force flew 450 against Modlin, securing its surrender on the 27 September after 318 tonnes of bombs been dropped on it in two days.