There was a keel-damaging grounding, then a mainsail-shredding storm.
During a recent session of guitar-shredding and stage-storming at the club, he and his band sent waves of "rippin' rock" -- his term -- rolling through the crowd.
The Red Storm's 84-59 shredding of Hofstra gave St. John's five consecutive victories over teams it was expected to beat and a 5-0 record for the first time since the 1994-95 season.
The storm's winds shredded the material protecting the shuttle and left its vertical stabilizer damaged.
The storm, which has spent the past three days shredding trees and flipping boats in Mexico and Cuba, was expected to hit the southern United States on Thursday.
By 3 50 p.m., the storm's tightly wound core was shredding Florida's west coast with sustained winds of 145 miles an hour, just 10 miles an hour below that of a Category 5 storm, the most destructive.
Online music magazine Q reports that relations were so strained on set that Björk reportedly ripped up a blouse she didn't want to wear in a scene and even ate shreds of it before storming off the set.
When Tropical Storm Isaac blew through Haiti in August, it shredded tents and left residents vulnerable to mudslides.
"Even a small storm is going to tear this thing to shreds," says Robert Young, a coastal geologist at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
It doesn't help that Ms. Surrey, under the increasingly broad direction of Davis McCallum, storms around like Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in "Mommie Dearest," shredding the chrysanthemums of an offending color.
There are even more for windsurfers, whose names (Storm Warning, Second Wind, Big Winds, Windance, Windwing, Windwear, Airtime, Shred Threads) reflect the reverence for the wind that roars down the river like a locomotive.
