It's hard to find a description of a rainy night in the early 1700s, but the Romantics will take a storm, or even just a shower, as fit subject for their most probing meditations.
"It would take a storm to get significant oil into that area," says David White of Loyola University New Orleans.
In places where it took a huge storm to send seawater into living rooms, a routine storm will do the trick once the ocean has risen several feet.
She is angry that it took a media storm to win them more support, and is anxious to make the point that her family's difficulties are shared by thousands of families with disabled children around the country.
Mr. Bach took a quick spin storming it: he killed three people in the game and was killed three times himself.
Is it 12? Or 14? "I have never left," he said proudly on Thursday afternoon, showing off a photograph he took of a storm in 1962.
For the show, Mr. Cole chose a black-and-white photograph he took after a storm two winters ago along the Ocean City beach.
Still, during this time of year, it practically takes a tropical storm to keep people away.
These days, it takes a huge storm like the one in Moore — a tornado as serious as tornadoes get — to get England's adrenaline going.
But there is plenty of history buried under the water and sand, and it only takes a strong storm to uncover more of the past.
