Farther south, around Corpus Christi, a wave of storms in November and December dropped up to 10 inches more rain than usual, he said.
Progress in restoring power had been made, but Ameren said the number of customers without power rose Friday, to 570,000, with a new wave of storms.
Although 17 states were under some kind of weather threat, the heart of the first wave of storms zeroed in on southern Indiana, northern Alabama and sections of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Although 17 states were under some kind of weather threat on Friday, the heart of the first wave of storms struck southern Indiana, northern Alabama and sections of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Ms. Cooke, who said her husband had been skiing the backcountry for 30 years, has not felt right going out since the last big wave of storms and said she would probably just wait a bit longer still, until she and her husband were sure.
Problems began late on Friday as huge waves of snow storms swept across northern England.
Later in the story, an image of the little dog struggling through the huge waves of a storm, described with a few lines and the black dot of a nose emerging from big watercolor washes, conveys his desperate plight.
This is based on the "regular" huge waves of the storm and does not necessarily involve rogue waves.
In the wake of the destruction of Europe's cities and the collapse of its governments, waves of refugees storm across the landscape accompanied by rage and cannibalism.
The Fitzgerald might have fallen victim to the high waves of the storm, suffered structural failure, been swamped with water entering through her cargo hatches or deck, experienced topside damage, or shoaled in a shallow part of Lake Superior.
