They bring with them devastating winds, heavy rain and the threat of coastal inundation from tidal surges. |
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The hurricane is lashing the Florida Keys with torrential rain and storm surges now. |
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Storm surges are unusual elevations in sea level that are driven by anomalous wind stresses and low atmospheric pressures associated with storms. |
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Some of you may know what this means and will now be experiencing surges of joy or hate, according to preference. |
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It is this submerged reef that causes fierce surges of current in the tide races in the area. |
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At least I think that's what he's doing when he surges off to bail up bewildered passers-by. |
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The city's distinct terrain makes it particularly vulnerable to the storm surges, heavy rains and high winds of a hurricane. |
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Steady breezes create regular rollers, while erratic squalls thrust up chaotic surges. |
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Each time the crowd surges, I'm completely off my feet, the pressure of the pack keeping me aloft. |
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If the tide is running, a large shoal of bib will probably be holding position here against the current that surges through beneath the wreck. |
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Other situations affecting power quality are transients or spikes, surges or over-voltages, noise and sags or brownouts. |
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A flock of birds surges impetuously from the thickets and takes flight towards the windmills that decorate the landscape. |
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Its auto mode is good for a system of its type, but the pauses and surges will be hard to take for those used to the feel of regular automatics. |
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In determining the expected level of use, consider both the average rates and any surges in use. |
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Demand for telecommunication surges in the world's fastest growing economy. |
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The car surges off the line and, sure enough, begins a slow drift to the left out of the well-defined groove. |
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At this time of year, monsoons in the area cause tidal surges and high waves. |
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They are also quite sensitive to variations in power quality due to transients, harmonics, and voltage surges and sags. |
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We are a very small organisation and we are not staffed up to handle big surges in communication. |
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The hardware has been redesigned to prevent damage caused by short circuits or power surges. |
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Because the brain is full of bioelectric surges that your kind can hold on to like Velcro. |
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Wetlands help protect coastal areas from storm surges and flooding brought by tropical storms and hurricanes. |
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The sudden collision had put her system into sleep mode to prevent any additional damage normally caused by power surges or corrupted software. |
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Elsewhere prices for brioches, soda breads and rye loaves are spiralling as demand surges. |
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There's no way to pick and choose which gets cut off when demand surges, prices spike, and supply gets tight. |
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The main factors behind the high tax take are continued strong surges in capital gains taxes and stamp duty. |
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Louisiana towns just east of the Texas border were particularly hard hit by the storm surges and flooding. |
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All the main tax categories increased with income and corporation tax showing particularly strong surges. |
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These will reduce surges to levels that plug-in type suppressors can handle. |
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The hurricane pounded the shore with 100-mile-an-hour winds, torrential rain, and tidal surges more than six feet high. |
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Rita is driving massive storm surges and bringing with it torrential rainfall. |
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During sortie surges when aircraft fly four times per day, two hot pit sessions reduce the flying hour window by over 3 hours. |
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For those of strong mind, such as the author of this novel, harnessing these surges of emotions can lead to great power. |
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The pace is slow and the mood sombre, even dreamy, cut across occasionally by great surges of emotion. |
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The surges of emotion that this dog experiences can be both light and dark. |
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It lasted no longer than a minute, but it sent electric surges through them both. |
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Power surges travel through any electric, telephone, or coaxial cable line. |
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The white smoke goes up, the crowd surges into St. Peter's Square, and the tiny figure in white emerges on the balcony. |
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Such a drop commonly occurs when the Index surges rapidly out of its normal pattern. |
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Just as an electrical fuse blows when power surges, so the human electrical system short circuits when overwhelmed. |
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Prefiguring later surges in academic research, he discussed the urban and global spaces of capital, and the politics of human geography. |
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Sunset faded and the mainland lights fell away, surges of phosphorescence began to show. |
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Rarely have the compositional anxieties of the Scherzo sounded more robust and urgent, or its litany of compulsive surges so compelling. |
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Katrina pushed the Gulf of Mexico's waters far inland, producing destructive storm surges 25 feet high. |
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Moralising on the basis of hurricanes and storm surges is not going to help anybody in the end. |
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However, surges in the trade deficit need not cause general economic contraction if they are accompanied by growth of demand from other sources. |
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Muscle contractions also produce little surges of electrical activity that a shark can detect using electroreception. |
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Yes, they are, and I'm sure power grids endured redlining surges as garbage disposals clean up the treacly detritus en masse. |
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Bishops obfuscate, cardinals equivocate and Church spokesmen prevaricate as the tide of media condemnation surges around them. |
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I have sudden surges of energy and productivity, or lethargy and napping. |
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For example, Day says, the canals that connect the city to the coast allow storm surges to travel inland, bringing salt water that damages the land. |
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A Japanese runner surges to the front, but is soon hauled in. |
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The roar of four revving aero engines surges from the runway. |
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Situated past East Arm in the southern part of the harbour, it was considered well protected from storm surges and the strong winds expected with the twister. |
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The sail billows out and the boat surges forward across the water. |
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The electromagnetic pulse generated by the test led to power surges in electrical cables in Hawaii, blowing fuses, streetlights, and circuit breakers. |
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Follow the shoreline past the cave, and eventually cross a tableland of rock to a deep inlet where the sea surges into the first of the two Carsaig Arches. |
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The electromagnetic pulse generated by the test led to power surges in electrical cables in Hawaii, blowing fuses, street lights, and circuit breakers. |
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A good UPS should also offer line conditioning, which means it should also be able to compensate for extended drops in voltage and filter spikes and surges. |
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Adrenaline surges through your veins, and somehow, you jump. |
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By contrast, British pop, fuelled by speed and e, moves in fits and starts, breaks and loops, sudden surges, depressive longeurs and doublings-back. |
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The team lacks playmakers in the secondary who can stop late-game surges. |
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I could feel immense surges of electricity surging through my body. |
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Varying pace and diction, and characterized by power surges of excitement and humour, this poem in Hudibrastic couplets is one of Burns's greatest achievements. |
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As has been the case at every show, the crowd surges toward the stage. |
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A nameless feeling surges when I see other people's families come. |
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Again, water surges from the dark cave under the myriads of mountains. |
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Two main types of pyroclastic surges occurred at Taapaca Volcanic Complex. |
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In the graph below, the annualized rate of new home construction is shown to have surpassed the two surges of the 1970s when inflation was out of control. |
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Like many blown cars it makes rapid progress but in a series of surges. |
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There was a significant difference of 30 minutes between the two surges with Malham Cove being slower to react to the floodwater. |
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They have determined the precise dates that angiosperms or flowering plants experienced two surges in growth during the Cretaceous period. |
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The units include Metal-Oxide Varistors to handle large surges and slow-blow current fuses to manage intermediate surge currents. |
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For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. |
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Across the centuries the fortunes of the two religions have risen and fallen in a sequence of momentous surges, pauses, and countersurges. |
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It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns. |
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Protect your laptop against erratic electrical current and telephone line surges and spikes anywhere in the world. |
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Thus around 80 to 90 percent of the time, electronic equipment is being affected by tiny surges as opposed to lightening flashes or blackouts. |
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The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surges that swept over seawalls and flooded seaside and inland communities. |
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In doing so, it highlights the precariousness of sudden surges. |
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Storm surges are caused by changes in barometric pressure combined with strong wind created wave action. |
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The Thames Barrier was completed in the 1980s to protect London against tidal surges from the North Sea. |
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Their motion is the result of cyclic surges interspersed with longer periods of inactivity, on both hourly and centennial time scales. |
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Sitting in as it punishingly stalls, veers and surges erratically is an orthopedic nightmare, whiplashing cervical vertebrae torturously. |
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During these surges, the glacier may reach velocities far greater than normal speed. |
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However, around 1200, storm surges did break up the northern coast of Western Friesland into five islands. |
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Most casualties during tropical cyclones occur as the result of storm surges. |
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No geographic region along the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic Ocean is safe from hurricane damage, and in turn, storm surges. |
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Deadly flooding caused by storm surges will occur more frequently as the climate warms, scientists predict. |
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Hurricane storm surges can initiate turbidity currents from otherwise peaceful atoll and oceanic-island coral reefs. |
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About once every 11 or 12 years a hurricane brings damaging winds and storm surges to the region. |
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It is believed that it does moderate the effects of storm surges on the bay. |
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Cold pyroclastic surges can occur when the eruption is from a vent under a shallow lake or the sea. |
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Storm surges and setup are also dangerous causes of coastal flooding in severe weather but their dynamics are completely unrelated to tsunami waves. |
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Introducing old males to the area stopped these behaviors, probably by suppressing musth, a period when testosterone in males surges, Poole and others wrote in Nature. |
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Having separate warnings for these two hazards should provide emergency managers, the media, and the general public better guidance on the hazards they face from storm surges. |
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The report said the evidence of how the rise in sea levels affect the coast can be observed during storm surges as the wind and waves push water towards the coast. |
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In areas especially vulnerable to storm surges, people settled behind elevated levees and on natural areas of high ground such as spits and geestland. |
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The megastorm Sandy caused 13-foot storm surges in the city. |
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In the late 1960s and 1990s the party enjoyed brief surges in support. |
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A few glaciers have periods of very rapid advancement called surges. |
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Coastal erosion is already widespread, and there are many coasts where exceptional high tides or storm surges result in encroachment on the shore, impinging on human activity. |
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These areas are subject to higher storm surges with smaller waves. |
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As a result, the Delta Works were authorized, an elaborate project to enable emergency closing of the mouths of most estuaries, to prevent flood surges upriver. |
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Such telegrammatic surges occur less often in The Day Daddy Died than in some of Alan's other books, but they are still very much a presence linguistically. |
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The main natural hazards are floods, storms, and storm surges. |
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In ice thrusting, the glacier freezes to its bed, then as it surges forward, it moves large sheets of frozen sediment at the base along with the glacier. |
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Rising sea levels and storm surges combined to flood some areas. |
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At another time, in another place, this might have been dismissed as hysteria, nonsense, fraud, self-delusion, or just poltergeisty adolescent hormonal surges. |
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This torque control function was developed and tested in collaboration with pump manufacturers to ensure the best possible stop without water hammer and pressure surges. |
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The 24 V DC power with backup prevents failure of critical operations due to power dips and brown-outs, while the surge arrestor protects against lightning and surges. |
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The 24 V DC power with backup prevents failure of critical operations due to power dips and brownouts, while the surge arrestor protects against lightning and surges. |
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One of the latest surges occurring in northern Colorado following the collapse of the largest bank in Greeley, a city of 75,000 outside of Denver. |
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