On a stormy Friday four days before Christmas, rain pelted the tin roof of the Cochran lodge and gusts knocked out the electrical power.
Meanwhile, as television and stand-up performances allowed him to let off psychic steam – dazzling creative gusts belched out by a nimble man running, always running, from the tangle inside himself – movies let Williams bare himself in ways so inventive that they became camouflage.
The storm affected Florida; rainfall peaked at 8.9 inches at Tallahassee, and winds gusts topped out at 79 mph.
In addition to a downpour of rain, there were powerful wind gusts, topping out at 89 mph, and a five-minute waterspout off the coast near Los Angeles International Airport.
"Marvelous," Hadley said in a gust, picking out a large, rusted iron- and-tole candle chandelier in the first room.
IN THE days before Norodom Sihanouk, then 18, succeeded to the throne, a gust put out the sacred candles lit in the palace to mark the event.
By the time we reached the top, after three hours, we were being alternately buffeted by gusts of white-out snow and fusillades of stinging horizontal hail that seemed to intensify every time we stopped for a break.
Temperatures were in the high 30's and the wind was gusting out of the northwest.
It was a raw, wet afternoon last May, with a hard wind gusting out of the northeast — too cold for fish to be stirring, really — but Mleczko's clients, four twenty-six-year-old guys, remained enthusiastic.
With swirling winds gusting out of the south at Hazeltine National, Woods ignored the commotion and made every par putt he needed for an eight-under-par total of 208.
