"Even two years ago, when there was a hurricane, at least the port in Port-au-Prince was operational".
When he unwrapped the thing at home, he found the needle obdurately pointing to "Hurricane" at one end of the dial.
On the morning of August 29, the storm made landfall as a category 4 hurricane at Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, approximately 45 miles (70 km) southeast of New Orleans.
"It doesn't look to us like there is any chance this will become a hurricane, at least in the short term," Mr. Mayfield of the hurricane center said.
Up the road, Lynn Williamson, 85, and his wife, Rose Marie, 84, said they faced the hurricane at home only because the familiarity lent them comfort.
They wanted dinner at Galatoire's and LeRuth's, breakfast at Brennan's, a hurricane at Pat O'Brien's; we gave them Mosca's, a restaurant unknown outside a circle of locals.
In the feverish world of horse racing and breeding, mosquito season is about as welcome as a hurricane at the Preakness.
Floor-to-ceiling windows gave us a view of the hurricane at work, while high on the wall was another monitor, a television with every station detailing downed power lines, flooded subways, trees felled across roads.
Using this simulation framework, selected parameters (i.e., intensity and size parameters) are recorded for each hurricane at the time of landfall along the Texas coast.
Olivia was also the strongest September hurricane at the time.
Thirteen people died in the hurricane at New Orleans.
