Even so, suspicion was the default position for many, like a woman who grumbled, "Is it really giving New Yorkers, or tourists, a break?" Another vital storm-related matter seems to be the quality of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's Spanish.
Berg says he has come to appreciate "how sensitive Los Angeles is to the handful of storms that we get and just how vital those storms are".
This source of water might be vital post-storm for drinking, bathing and toilet flushing.
The extra funding, described by the prime minister as vital, relates to Storm Eva, which battered northern England, including Cumbria and Yorkshire on Boxing Day.
And as the sea levels rise, they provide vital protection against storm surges and inundation.
Think of how many people still get vital information daily news, storm warnings, and the like from good ol' fashion television.
The Mongabay blog has some useful additional background on how agriculture, as well as aquaculture, eats away at these vital buffers to storms and nurseries for marine life and birds.
Despite warnings of our region's vulnerability to rising sea levels, officials did not act to protect homes and vital services against predicted storm surges of historic proportions, and they have willfully ignored the underlying cause.
It wasn't just the threat of MMA combat that made Storm a vital Saturday night spot.
The devastation triggers rebirth and new growth, making the storms a vital catalyst in the biological bigger picture.
Norfolk is already seeing periodic coastal flooding from a rising ocean, and Titley said 2012's Hurricane Sandy showed how badly a big storm could hit vital urban systems like the New York subways that few had thought of as vulnerable.
