A huge tornado was bearing down on them, and Timmer could see tree branches, car parts, and pink fibreglass house insulation in the vortex.
We lived among children and families whose lives were traumatically altered by fallen tree branches, car accidents, strokes, defective candles, gunshots and rare diseases.
Utilities' sympathizers, on the other hand, point out that they are responsible for things like repairing street lamps should a tree branch or car accident take one out, and incur other costs to keep cities safely lit.
Here, people shamble about pulling carts with hay, tree branches, old car batteries, plastic cans – anything they can find.
The resulting mix of established and emerging artists range in age from their 20s to their 70s, and work with the more traditional metal, clay, wood and stone, as well as fused, fired and blown glass, and found objects like storm-felled tree branches, a car's exhaust manifold and nylon stockings.
Or, it can include a search box within the light-blue space, asking the visitor to enter his ZIP code, then taking him to the section of the advertiser's Web site that lists bank branches or car dealerships near him, for example.
The company branched into car park management technology eight years later.
Just as the houses are now so expensive — too expensive for some who grew up there — now perhaps the tree had grown too large, damaging the sidewalk, raining mulberries and branches on cars, and even endangering those who walk beneath it.
Unlike encounters with falling tree branches, stalled cars, or other inanimate objects, an understanding of other people requires the tacit recognition that their behavior is influenced by the contents of their minds (Dennett 1987).
They're drowning in credit-card debt; they couldn't afford Christmas gifts; and, when a tree branch wrecked their car, the insurance company refused to call it an act of God.
