The National Weather Service said 21 people died in Kentucky and the state says 23 perished using a different measure of storm-related deaths.
One potent storm from 1979, Typhoon Tip, holds the record for the lowest atmospheric pressure recorded, another measure of a storm's intensity.
Only as relief workers and curious area residents crept into the heart of downtown could they glimpse the full measure of the storm's fury.
In a telling measure of the storm's limited impact on New York City, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani kept up his campaign schedule for the United States Senate.
It was a measure of the storm's weakness that both major airports, George Bush Intercontinental and Hobby, remained open, though there were long delays.
It was a measure of the storm's devastation in the region that in Connecticut, where officials on Tuesday reported almost 600,000 utility customers without power, and substantial damage to many shoreline communities, the general sense was that it could have been worse.
The Delta Flume boasts bigger waves; the maximum significant wave height a measure of a storm's intensity is 2.2 meters, but individual waves may top out at 4.5 meters.
They argue that the benefits of repairing beaches often exceed its costs, even as measured purely in terms of storm damage averted by the new sand.
It is difficult to assess the potential for landslide initiation and to devise/evaluate appropriate counter measures due to the unpredictability of storm events and a paucity of quantitative data on storm-related impacts of exotic forest harvesting over its short history, particularly for areas of cutover.
Braunschsweig, whose Measure for Measure caused a storm (mostly of approval) in Edinburgh four years ago, pays attention to detail, deriving his ideas from a faithful reading of the text.
