Earlier Friday, high winds or tornadoes hopscotched across four counties in northeast Texas, ripping away power lines, uprooting trees and overturning vehicles.
Wells' work is a reminder that uprooting white supremacy and racist violence in this country was, and continues to be, a dangerous struggle.
Below ground plant organs were important in determining the overall resilience of this species, with root length showing the strongest association with its ability to resist uprooting, whilst rhizomes had the longest seasonal influence on the force required to uproot the plant.
The technology is already uprooting whole industries, such is its power.
"Prime minister Narendra Modi came to power on the promise of uprooting corruption, but still the corruption exists," he says.
A Gallup poll in October showed that 83percentt of Pakistanis supported the Taliban, a fact that did not prevent President Pervez Musharraf from backing American forces in toppling the Taliban on their way to uprooting Al Qaeda.
Violence, after all, was the medium of white domination: uprooting people from their homes, forcefully exploiting their labor, beating the disobedient into compliance.
Most astonishingly, Mr Sharon has battered down the right wing of his own Likud Party and got his parliament to order the uprooting by force if necessary of all 7,000 or so Israeli settlers in the Gaza strip.
But uprooting Mr. Mubarak's regime is just half the battle.
Others don't see uprooting in such positive terms.
