My only quibble was with the mixer taps that sent a torrent down into the shallow basin, then straight back out again on to your clothes.
In a town where leaks flow like a powerful torrent down every avenue, the prosecution of a spokesman based on an innocuous disclosure seems almost comically misplaced.
Two companies Flavorpill in America and le cool in Europe, acting separately publish free, weekly e-mails that narrow the torrent down to the two dozen very best events.There are plenty of places to look for reviews and recommendations, but they can be unreliable or prone to manipulation.
He watched as the torrent took down four trees, including one that had a troop of baboons in it.
The report says the area studied, about 100 miles east of Atlantic City, is particularly waterlogged, and thus particularly unstable, because the deep layers of the shelf were formed in the last Ice Age, when the Hudson River was a turbid torrent, laying down enormous amounts of silt that trapped water as successive layers accumulated.
Unprecedented torrents flooding down from the north.
Ms. Jenson was talking about the efforts to reverse Haiti's dramatic level of deforestation, which magnifies the effects of storms, turning rainfall into destructive torrents rushing down denuded hillsides.
The article described how the "fervid suns of May and June" melted "vast beds of snow and ice", so that "springs and torrents rush down to the lowlands" and "the rivers overflow their banks".It is fair to say that the journal's prose style has rushed downhill since those first lyrical pages.
And it appears that we are now in an era that will be defined precisely by events that appear, by our current standards of normality, highly improbable: flash floods, hundred-year storms, persistent droughts, spells of unprecedented heat, sudden landslides, raging torrents pouring down from breached glacial lakes, and, yes, freakish tornadoes.
The typhoons also dump up to a foot of rain a day, sending torrents down the bluff toward the site.
There, we climbed up toward the white-topped Capu a Chiostru past the snow line and the fierce torrents down the sides of the gorge.
