In the latest wave of power failures, on Thursday night and Friday morning, a line of extreme storms knocked out electricity to thousands in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
Extreme violence – "knocking, carving or bursting pieces off" – was followed by interminable weeks or months of minute labour, "like a mouse gnawing a hole in a wall".
Niemi tells his stories with stoic wit and a dusting of magical realism, as if the extreme climate knocks the senses off kilter.
'Niemi tells his stories with stoic wit and a dusting of magical realism... as if the extreme climate knocks the senses off kilter.' There are places that books do not come from, and one of them used to be Pajala.
A window being smashed is okay in extreme circumstances, knocking a chair over or something very easy to fix is generally okay.
Extreme rainfall could knock out a major transport route.
Last week, South Australia endured another blackout with an extreme heat event knocking out roughly 90,000 premises.
But although men can be celebrated for extreme aggression, like knocking out a quarterback in the N.F.L., "women are held to a different standard," Dorrance said.
The skier, who hit her face on the left-hand wall of the halfpipe at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, was knocked out and taken to a medical tent on a stretcher.
And the driving experience is, as we said, beautifully balanced on the tipping point between extreme sportiness that knocks your molars about and placid comfort that costs a tenth of a second through the slalom.
