Building in protection against gale-force winds would add about five per cent to the cost of new construction.
But when a massive funnel cloud carved its way across the interstate only hundreds of yards in front of my car in 2003, I realized that my Northeastern cynicism was no shield against gale-force winds.
After losing Evans and Oates on the return journey – Oates leaving the tent in an Antarctic blizzard with the famous last words "I am going outside and may be some time" – Scott, Wilson and Bowers died around the 29 March, having battled against gales and hunger on the savage Antarctic icescapes.
Office and retail property have faced headwinds over the past year, but the housing market is struggling against gale-force gusts.
More than 400 people were rescued from the decks of a burning ferry in the Adriatic Sea, in a difficult, operation which saw helicopter crews struggling against gale-force winds, massive waves and thick smoke.
As we all scrambled around the house occupied with our final preparations, The Weather Channel droned on in the background, beaming in reporters in ponchos stationed in the Caribbean, or Florida's more Southern reaches—Tampa, my hometown, was often spared the worst of the storms as they fought to stay on their feet against gale-force winds and whipping rains.
"It does get a bit lonely, sometimes," she concedes, heaving the barn door shut against the gale.
Catching up to them in the breezeway of a condominium tower, Howard flipped his police lights on and forced his cruiser door open against the gale.
We leaned against the gale as we looked north-east from Castle Rock towards the western ramparts of Peakland; dark clouds whipped out of Wales bringing grey ladders of downpours.
But when I looked at her standing there with arms crossed and legs taut as if bracing against a gale, I saw she wouldn't save me from myself any more than she would save me from him.
