The weekend's earthquakes came as Japan was cleaning up from last week's typhoon, the most lethal storm in two decades, which killed 80 people.
The lethal storm for which the mayor relentlessly prepped city residents largely spared New York, leading many to grumble about an overreaction by city officials.
Forecasters had earlier warned the combined "Frankenstorm", as it has been nicknamed, could bring one foot of rain in some places, as well as potentially lethal storm surges, especially in lower Manhattan.
After the briefest of consultations, they decided to cancel major convention events Monday, realizing the political cost of proceeding with the pageantry of a convention as a potentially lethal storm landed on shore.
Tens of millions of people braced themselves for the arrival of hurricane Sandy on Sunday, as the gigantic storm threatened to unleash punishing winds, driving rain, heavy snow and a potentially lethal storm surge along the east coast of the US.
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Forecasters said the combination could bring close to a foot of rain in places, a potentially lethal storm surge of 4 to 11 feet across much of the region, and punishing winds that could cause widespread power outages that last for days.
Then a drought comes and a lethal dust storm and Bill admits to himself, "You can't outsmart the land".
Officials say that when a major hurricane strikes, the structure will block a lethal Gulf of Mexico storm surge from barreling down the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway into the Industrial Canal.
We thus identify the CD28 homodimer interface as a critical receptor target for superantigens and key transducer of lethal cytokine storm.
