Furious torrents of water pushing enormous boulders charged toward the Kedarnath shrine and town.
They lost their hind legs, their front legs became flippers; their bodies became sleek swimming machines that could flex up and down and push enormous amounts of water with their tails to jet rapidly through the water.
The hurricane spun onto land on Monday morning just to the east of them, 145-mile-an-hour winds pushing enormous waves up from the Gulf of Mexico, the force coming round to push waves down from Lake Pontchartrain.
Walking into the giddy, ornate plaster-and-marble ornamented lobby of the Beaux-Arts Wolcott Hotel, on 31st Street near Fifth Avenue, I fooled myself for an instant, thinking that I'd returned to the elegant New York of 1910, although the Japanese punksters and Russian tourists pushing enormous wheeled suitcases up to the bare-bones modern reception desk spoiled that fantasy somewhat.
In an afternoon's trip from the Tappan Zee to the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, I passed sailboats and motorboats and tugs pushing enormous barges, watched an osprey hunt off Croton Point, saw a large fish leap in water 80 feet deep near Storm King, and inspected a small dead sturgeon in Haverstraw Bay that gulls were feeding on.
Gnomes scurry to and fro, pushing enormous carts of underpants around.
"I feel like I pushed an enormous boulder up the hill, and it fell back down," she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because her agent had advised her to do so, citing the taint and uncertainty surrounding "Rebecca".
Plate-tectonic processes have pushed up enormous slabs of olivine-rich rocks from the mantle to the Earth's surface, where they can be mined in open pit mines.
In 2001 and 2003, my predecessor pushed through enormous tax cuts for the very wealthy, using small tax cuts for the middle class as a fig leaf.
To save the game from those who wanted to abolish it completely, Roosevelt used the "bully pulpit" to push for enormous rules changes to improve safety.
