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Conceding that several cities to the north were in worse shape than Baltimore after the last storm, Mr. Schaefer listed several improvements he said should be made in the snow plan here.
After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.
When this was rebuffed he made an attempt to cross back to Italy to collect his missing troops but was turned back by a storm.
On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry underwent an existential crisis, an event that made a huge impact on his writing career.
In 1924 another storm swept away part of one of the houses and it was determined the site should be made secure and more seriously investigated.
* July 12 – Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $ 270 million in damage to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.
* April 14 – Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his " dust bowl ballads ", hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest.
The Romans made a desperate attempt to storm the wall, but failed, and the highest-ranking officer next to Varus, Legatus Numonius Vala, abandoned the troops by riding off with the cavalry ; however, he too was overtaken by the Germanic cavalry and killed, according to Velleius Paterculus.
Other than a single attempt to storm Ladysmith, the Boers made no attempt to capture the besieged towns.
Earlier attempts to storm Riga had been made in December 1699.
God has given us strength to stand out against this storm ; we have finally surmounted the waves and made our port of safety ,— peace for our state.
A storm separated the ships, but Bering sighted the southern coast of Alaska, and a landing was made at Kayak Island or in the vicinity.
A storm separated the ships, but Bering sighted the southern coast of Alaska, and a landing was made at Kayak Island or in the vicinity.
The parties made well under a day until they became separated by a storm, so Peary was inadvertently without a companion sufficiently trained in navigation to verify his account from that point northward.
On 5 July 2003 about 350 skiers and 70 skifield staff were trapped on the mountain overnight at Top o ' the Bruce when a sudden snow storm blew up and within a few minutes made the access road too dangerous to descend.
Again on Saturday 26 July 2008 skiers and staff were trapped on the mountain overnight when a fast approaching storm caused the skifield to be closed at 10: 30am and made the road too dangerous for cars without chains or 4WD to leave the area.
The astronomer Denison Olmsted made an extensive study of this storm, and concluded it had a cosmic origin.
In 982 he was caught in a storm and made port in Wendland, where he met Queen Geira, a daughter of King Burizleif.
Of the storm which this book created mention has been made already.
After the death of their parents, Aphrodite took care of Cleodora and Merope, Hera taught them to be proper women, and Athena made them accomplished ; but when Aphrodite went to see Zeus to get them married, storm winds carried them away to become handmaidens of the furies.
Scipio had been caught in a storm with his fleet off Corsica, and the building of the temple was in fulfillment of a vow made in asking for deliverance.
In medieval times storm tides made life in what is now Nordfriesland quite dangerous.
The redesigned King Street features several environmentally sustainable elements such as new street trees, bike racks, planter beds that collect and filter storm water, street furnishing made primarily from recycled materials, and an improved waste management system.
The storm continued on its course while continuing to intensify, and made landfall twice the next day, on the Isle of Youth and near Pinar del Río as a Category 2 hurricane.
He made his attack at this fragile spot, using a night attack by a small group of hand-picked soldiers to storm the walls and open the gates.

storm and landfall
Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
* 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston.
* 2009 – The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France.
The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day.
It is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm, and the earliest formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.
In 2005, the county was the scene of the final landfall of the eye of Hurricane Katrina, and its communities and infrastructure suffered some of the most intense damage inflicted by that storm.
Amidst heavy rains accompanied by hurricane-force winds in excess of 120 mph ( 190 km / h ) at initial landfall ( with a Category 5 storm surge ), the levees failed and broke.
The storm began to quickly weaken in the early morning hours of October 3, and this rapid weakening continued until the hurricane's final landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana due to a combination of vertical wind shear, cool waters just offshore Louisiana, and slowly encroaching dry air within its southwest quadrant.
Occasionally, a hurricane that has made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico will reach Fort Payne as a tropical storm or tropical depression.
In 1950, Hurricane Easy, a category 3 storm with 125 mph winds, looped around Cedar Key three times before finally making landfall, dumping 38 inches of rain and destroying two thirds of the homes.
In 2005, Slidell suffered extensive damage from the effects of Hurricane Katrina as the storm made final landfall on the morning of August 29.
On August 29, 2005 at 10: 00 a. m. CDT, Hurricane Katrina made its final landfall near Bay St. Louis, at the mouth of the Pearl River, with a storm surge.
The storm, just below hurricane strength when it reached the region, made landfall on June 22 near New York City.
Beulah made landfall in southern Texas as a category 3 storm.
On October 9, 2001, Hurricane Iris made landfall at Monkey River Town as a 145 mph Category Four storm.
As Mitch accelerated to the northeast in association with a cold front, it gradually intensified, and made landfall near Naples, Florida on November 5 as a tropical storm with 65 mph ( 100 km / h ) winds.
Alicia was the first storm for which the National Hurricane Center issued landfall probabilities.
By the time Isabel made landfall, a tropical storm warning existed from Chincoteague, Virginia to Fire Island, New York and from Cape Fear, North Carolina to the mouth of the Santee River in South Carolina, and a hurricane warning existed from Chincoteague, Virginia to Cape Fear.
It had estimated winds of at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir – Simpson Hurricane Scale.
Opal remained a hurricane for nearly 12 hours after landfall, its rapid forward speed propelling it the entire length of Alabama before being downgraded to a tropical storm as it crossed into Tennessee.
Camille strengthened further over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall with a pressure of 905 mbar ( hPa ), estimated sustained winds of 190 mph ( 305 km / h ), and a peak official storm surge of ; by maximum sustained wind speeds, Camille was one of the strongest landfalling tropical cyclones recorded worldwide, and one of only four tropical cyclones worldwide ever to officially achieve wind speeds of.

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