All around this hamlet and others nearby, the men and women who farmed bananas, plantains, sugar cane, beans and breadfruit stare at fields swept of trees, still flooded or coated with river muck that will probably kill off whatever plants are left.
But the cucumber trees swept past, to be replaced by rickety-looking stone huts, thatched with bleached palm leaves.
The lower limbs of these trees swept down close to the ground, forming a bathing bower on two sides of the drum.
Homes just north of Arab were swept completely away, trees were ripped from the ground and never recovered, and a storage trailer was thrown 100 yards.
(On horseback in northwestern Wyoming during a snowstorm, he's feeling sorry for himself and the wind-swept trees when an enormous pine suddenly "uproots itself and arcs noiselessly through the air" to land directly in front of him).
Dragged inland by an incomprehensible power, she had managed to hold on to Adi until she was swept against a tree and, for a dark, swooning moment, felt her boy underwater and her grip weaken.
More than a football field's worth of marsh is swept away every year, tree-by-tree, reed-by-reed.
Cedar trees were uprooted, while fruit and ornamental trees were swept out to sea.
Every night, they are swept away from the trees and sink to the muddy bottom of the open lagoon.
Then he conjured a stunning shot from out of a stand of pine trees which swept him to his third Green Jacket.
He said the wind and rain had torn roofs from houses, swept away plantations, ripped trees from the earth and drowned livestock.
