The water pounded away, as if a million golf balls had been dropped on the tent at once.
Eventually, the hulking drill unit found itself resting in shallow water, pounded by waves as officials scratched their heads, trying to figure out what to do next.
As the water pounded the yard's palm fronds and lightning shattered the clouds, the sunset call to prayer began its wail from the minarets, the mournful minor key notes from at least three different mosques mingling with the air-trembling thunder.
Ms Waters pounded the racial themes familiar to all Americans, together with some that still seem bizarre to most whites: the suggestion, for example, that the CIA pushed crack cocaine in ghettoes in the 1980s to raise money for the Nicaraguan contras.
She fetches water, pounds maize and cooks over smoky fires.
Push a button on the wall and a jackhammer of cold water pounds down to massage your scalp.
It keeps a tally, and translates your energy into how many barrels of oil, trees, gallons of water, pounds of carbon dioxide, kilowatts of electricity, and cubic yards of garbage you save.
The steepness of the terrain meant that there was no space to use the normal arrangement of water pounds between the locks.
Just let the water pound on you and keep you warm, while relaxing.
