The north-south thoroughfare starts off promising enough, bisecting the pastoral Sepulveda Wildlife Basin and Woodley Creek.
A brief but fierce storm drenched the New York region just before the morning rush yesterday, paralyzing the transit system, flooding major thoroughfares, cutting off electricity to thousands of homes and causing confusion that lingered through a humid, sweaty day.
A9 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Storm Paralyzes CityAnd Unleashes a Tornado A brief but fierce storm drenched the New York region just before the morning rush, paralyzing the transit system, flooding major thoroughfares, cutting off power to thousands of homes and unleashing a tornado that whipped Brooklyn with winds of up to 135 miles an hour.
A long thoroughfare of motorbike garages, empty off-licences and dead pubs.
Sitting in Craft RePUBlic, one of the craft beer establishments on the thoroughfare of Maly Gnezdnikovsky Pereulik off Moscow's main boulevard, Tverskaya, it's hard to feel the clampdown on "western values" alongside western goods that is omnipresent in the Russian media.
Predictably, the notion of cutting off thoroughfares didn't go over well with leaders.
Whole thoroughfares were sealed off so that royal processions could pass by with the untrammeled ease of the Zil lanes for the nomenklatura of Soviet Moscow.
Another stretch of good shops runs the length of South Bridge, Nicolson Street and Clerk Street, and includes (just off the main thoroughfare on East Crosscauseway) Backbeat.
But just off the main thoroughfare, on a peaceful circular plaza amid red-brick Victorian apartment blocks, is a restaurant that offers a brief glimpse at the unvarnished character of the area's renaissance.
Chapter 3: The Pakistan connection The office is grey and slightly run-down, set back off a busy thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, the seething city in the centre of Pakistan's northern plains.
