While the storm passed by New York City with barely a sprinkle of rain, and the forecast called for high winds, the storm that finally battered southern Vermont was a slow, relentless rain that soaked the area, breaking dams, flooding homes, destroying businesses and washing away roads throughout the region.
Prepared for the worst after a day of relentless rain, Sandra Forrester, 37, was wearing a floor-length sou'wester on which she had written the King quote: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter most".
The county, albeit in the 1970s and 80s, was shown as a place of relentless rain, darkness, corruption and fear.
They can enjoy the hot dry weather that followed a spring of relentless rain and fog here and disport themselves in public with an apparent ease that seems singularly Italian.
At the Zaatari refugee camp, which shelters 54,000 Syrians in northern Jordan, fighting erupted Tuesday during food distribution after a night of relentless rain inundated parts of the encampment.
And now, after a week of relentless rain put it 24 hours behind schedule, the real Open at Bethpage Black will begin at 9 a.m. on Monday, when the final round is scheduled to conclude.
I visited the Beijing National Stadium, the Bird's Nest by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, on a day of relentless rain; it was worth getting drenched to see this dazzling interplay of art, architecture and engineering.
MEXICO CITY — A devastating storm that struck El Salvador over the weekend was not the hurricane that roared through the region at the same time and, in fact, it did not even merit a name — which meant little after at least 140 people were killed when rivers burst their banks and hillsides collapsed under a siege of relentless rain.
