Sentence examples for fierce hurricane from inspiring English sources

In one particularly fierce hurricane, Mr. Davis said, he backed his cars against the garage door to keep it from blowing in.

Fading but still fierce, Hurricane Isabel crashed ashore in North Carolina yesterday, swamped neighborhoods dozens of miles inland and raged north through Virginia to the nation's capital, with winds knocking out power to more than two million people and disrupting air travel across the mid-Atlantic region.

Milwaukee and the destroyer assisted victims of a fierce hurricane which had devastated the Isle of Pines in October 1926.

Turning northwards on 18 August, Willaumez was at, 324 nautical miles north-east of Puerto Rico, when his squadron was struck by a fierce hurricane.

In Goodland, Florida during a fierce hurricane, Sara Shipley and her son, Evan, desperately try to flip the washing machine but fail to do so as tentacles ensnare them.

Elsewhere, a spate of fierce hurricanes inundated parts of the South and Caribbean.

Or the Seven Sisters oak trees in Louisiana that can withstand fierce hurricanes because their roots grow together to make an entire community of resilience.

The report confirms that manmade global warming pollution has caused an increased frequency of heat waves, droughts, severe rainfall, and fierce hurricanes, and that there is a 90percentt likelihood that the frequency and intensity of such extreme weather events will continue to accelerate unless immediate action is taken to slow global warming pollution.

Mr. King and Dave Clark, who sought refuge here while sailing to Cocoa, Fla., traded anecdotes about fiercer hurricanes they had known: George and Andrew, Fran and Floyd.

The men were off the coast of Labrador, Canada, with a load of seals aboard, caught in a fierce storm: hurricane-force winds of 80 miles per hour and 45-foot waves.

The men were off the coast of Labrador, with a load of seals aboard, caught in a fierce storm: hurricane-force winds of 73 knots (135 km/h) and waves of 12-14 metres.