During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, he argued that smoke from the Kuwaiti oil fires would have little impact, in opposition to most commentators.

This publicity would pale in comparison to the attention that the Humvee received for its service in Gulf War Operation: Desert Storm, the following year.

Later appearances included the television film Divorce His – Divorce Hers ( 1973 ) opposite then-wife Elizabeth Taylor ( a prophetic title, since their first marriage would be dissolved less than a year later ), a remake of the classic film Brief Encounter ( 1974 ) that was considered vastly inferior to the 1945 original, and a critically applauded performance as Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm ( 1974 ).

Tropical Storm Bonnie would cause minor damage in 2004, spawning a minor tornado in the process.

In 2002, director Richard Loncraine persuaded Barker to appear as Winston Churchill's butler David Inches in the BBC-HBO drama The Gathering Storm and then cast him in the larger role of the General in the TV film My House in Umbria in 2003, alongside Maggie Smith ( whom he had, early in their careers, advised to give up acting as he felt she would not be a success ).

The Battalion would take on the 4th place Guelph Storm in the first round of the playoffs and came out on top by sweeping the Storm in 4 games for the first playoff series win in club history.

In one final trade Butler would send defenceman Kyle Pereira and a pick to the Guelph Storm for import goaltender Matej Machovsky.

Future releases were to have included Solar Jetman, which would eventually appear only on the Nintendo Entertainment System, although home computer conversions for the Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, and Atari ST were completed by Storm Software, but not released.

Storm, deluge, or earthquake damage leading to loss of certain transportation routes in a city, for example bridges crossing a river, could make it impossible for people to evacuate, and for emergency services to operate ; these routes would be deemed critical infrastructure.

On December 5, 2007, CBS announced that Maggie Rodriguez would succeed Storm as co-anchor.

In the Finals, their run would end, as they lost a hard-fought three-game series, 2 – 1, to the Seattle Storm.

When Storm led a team of X-Men in search of Destiny's diaries, the thirteen-volume Books of Truth, Gambit volunteered to join them, but Rogue — afraid that her increasingly uncontrolled powers would bring him harm — flatly refused to allow him along.

The Seattle Storm would tip off their first season ( the 2000 WNBA season ) in typical expansion fashion.

In Donovan's first year, Jackson would win the WNBA Most Valuable Player Award, but the team had a disappointing season ( with Bird injured for much of the year ), and the Storm missed the playoffs.

The Storm would emerge victorious, winning the series 2 – 1.

In the WNBA Finals, the Storm would finish off the season as champions, defeating the Connecticut Sun 2 games to 1.

In 2006, the Storm would finish 18 – 16, good enough to make the playoffs.

The Storm put up a good fight in the first round against the Sparks, but would fall short 2 – 1.

In 2007, the Storm would finish. 500 ( 17 – 17 ), good enough to make the playoffs in a weak Western Conference.

The Storm would be quickly swept out of the playoffs by the Phoenix Mercury.

Although most of Seattle's major sports teams endured poor seasons during 2008, the Storm would be the only standout team in Seattle that year, posting a franchise-best 22 – 12 record and finishing with a 16 – 1 record at home, also a franchise-best.

Bennett made it clear that the Sonics and Storm would move to Oklahoma City at some point after the 2007 – 08 NBA season, unless an arena for the Sonics was approved by Seattle leaders before October 31, 2007.

During this period of uncertainty, the Storm announced that they would play their 2008 WNBA season in Seattle at KeyArena.

However, the Air Guard and the total force concept would be fully tested in the major operations of the 1990s: Desert Shield and the first Gulf War, Desert Storm.

The Beretta Cx4 Storm shares magazines with many Beretta pistols, and is designed to be complementary to the Beretta Px4 Storm pistol.

In Christ stilling the Storm he wrote: " If a man believe in Christ, and make a point of his belief, then the promise that God hath made to come into the land of light shall be given by virtue of Christ, to all men that make this the chief matter.

A widely regarded ( though by no means error-free ) history of fandom in the 1930s can be found in Sam Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom Hyperion Press 1988 ISBN 0-88355-131-4 ( original edition The Atlanta Science Fiction Organization Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1954 ).

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Authorities such as the Storm Prediction Center advise having a pre-determined plan should a tornado warning be issued.

During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 51 Sheridans were deployed by the 82nd Airborne Division, and were among the first tanks to be sent.

Johnny Storm and Kitty Pryde are also said to be members of the team.

In the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game, the spear is represented as a Trap Card, meant to be used with the other " Nordic " cards released in " Storm of Ragnarok ".

* Cardinal Zero from the single episode audio story Circular Time: Spring – a similarly titled Time Lord ( Zeuro ) appears in the Doctor Who Unbound audio A Storm of Angels ( although it is not established whether these are meant to be alternate versions of the same person )

The name Teucer is believed to be related to the name of the West Hittite God Tarku ( East Hittite Teshub ) -- the Indo-European Storm God -- a role which explains his relationship to Belus, who is the Semitic storm god Baal.

Storm breaching is believed to be an important but unpredictable control on the duration of closures at low to moderate river flow levels in smaller hapua.

In western Anatolia, many toponyms with the "- ss -" infix derive from the adjectival suffix also seen in cuneiform Luwian and some Palaic ; the classic example is Bronze Age Tarhuntassa ( loosely, " City of the Storm God Tarhunta "), and later Parnassus may be related to the Hittite word parna-or " house ".

* Pandarve — A living, sentient planet, considered to be a goddess, in the Storm comic book.

The China O ' Brien films have a limited cult film status but have gained notoriety in the late 1990s because a then-unheard of singer / songwriter Tori Amos ( then going by her birth name Ellen Amos ) recorded a song, " Distant Storm ," which can only be heard by viewing the original film.

In 1998 Norman performed at Flevo backed by Beam, a young Dutch band, to a mixed reception as Norman's label wanted a new set of songs to be released on another live album, Shouting In The Storm, which sold poorly in Europe, and led to GMI dropping Norman from the label.

Warren Spector, former lead designer at Ion Storm, stated it was " not possible to squeeze this much gameplay into a single game " and " no game has done a better job of showing goals before they can be attained, allowing players to make a plan and execute on it ".

* Rufus Amos Adams is said to be from Midway in the Paul and Storm song of the same name.

She went on to be a four-year starter for Purdue University from 2003 to 2007, and was the first Hornet graduate to play in an American professional sports major league ( for the WNBA's Seattle Storm in the 2007 season ).

Significant recent spacecraft are the NASA-ESA Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory ( STEREO ) pair of spacecraft launch in 2006 into solar orbit and Radiation Belt Storm Probes ( RBSP ) to be launch in 2012 into a highly elliptical Earth-orbit.

According to the tale, a local colonial tavern ( sometimes said to be established by town father Isaac Storm ) had run out of wooden stirrers during the war and started using the quills of roosters ' tailfeathers to stir their drinks ; a more embellished version holds that the roosters were plundered from nearby Tory farmers.

Storm learned to be an accomplished dancer and became an excellent ice skater at Houston's Polar Palace.

The single " California " failed to be commercially successful, but " Storm ", featuring Jay-Z, reached the charts.