And what nasty waves it makes.
With a nasty heat wave, New York could find itself in much the same fix.
In the midst of a nasty heat wave, air-conditioning can make life so much easier to bear.
The '77 blackout struck about 9 30 p.m. during a nasty heat wave, but this one came shortly after 4 p.m., with hours of daylight remaining.
Don't Come Here!" Barry Levinson's Baltimore films, a series of backhanded compliments to his hometown, have been relatively benign, but there has also been that nasty crime wave featuring the city: "Homicide: Life on the Street" in the 1990's; the HBO mini-series "The Corner," about drug dealing, in 2000.
So in mid-August, just as New York was swamped by one of the nastier heat waves in recent memory, we took off for a week on the Laxa i Adaldal, a river that is said to hold some of the biggest salmon in Iceland.
"It's also an economic issue," he said, adding that in the event of any "really nasty water" such as large waves brought on by a hurricane, the city may extend the beach patrol hours to keep people out of the water.
Already those Muslim Britons whose burning of The Satanic Verses began the vogue for pro-victim censorship have seen their co-religionists imprisoned for writing bad poetry or waving nasty placards.
Ramming our way across the Atlantic through constant bad weather and nasty, slapping gray waves, one of our two boilers failed, and we limped toward Bermuda, the only refuge between us and Virginia.
Periodically, Google tweaks the algorithm and unleashes a wave of nasty surprises across the web as people find that their hitherto modestly successful online niche businesses have suddenly – and unaccountably – disappeared.
