But this storm rode ocean waters five degrees warmer than normal, so it's no great shock that it turned into a monster.
The film begins in Pampa, Tex., in 1936 with a towering dust storm riding in on 75-mile-an-hour winds.
THESE DAYS TECH FUND MANAGERS feel like characters in The Perfect Storm, riding the monster swells and trenches in what was once a bounteous fishing ground.
One Houston resident, who's been coordinating relief efforts for victims of the deadly storm, rides his motorcycle throughout the flooded city in full Deadpool-attire.
A highly decorated former Navy lieutenant who rode out his storm riding Swift Boats in riverine operations in Vietnam, Kerry and his existentialist theory about global warming won't be around to lead the COP 21 fight either.
Often fires were less than a tenth of an acre, started by a lightning strike from the storms that ride north past Lake Chelan in central Washington.
Mr. Squyres has also edited Mr. Lee's "Wedding Banquet," "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Sense and Sensibility," "The Ice Storm" and "Ride with the Devil," as well as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Made in China but bankrolled by Warner Brothers, the film gives Ang Lee the chance to let his hair down in a big way after The Ice Storm and Ride With the Devil.
But Maguire has selected roles in arty films in which he could use his open-faced looks, soft voice and unassuming physical presence -- what Ang Lee, who directed him in "The Ice Storm" and "Ride With the Devil," calls his "poetic, soothing quality" -- to great advantage, never more so than as "Spider-Man"'s Peter Parker, the harmless dweeb who has superheroism thrust upon him.
"I believe in two weeks my greatest dream will come true," said James Schamus, who produced two of Mr. Maguire's films, "The Ice Storm" and "Ride with the Devil," "which is that I will no longer be able to afford Tobey Maguire because he'll be such an über movie star".
