Crews worked in steep, rugged terrain, fighting flames fueled by hot weather and brush, grass and chaparral left bone dry by a five-year drought.
And riding in the rough also exposes these extremities to encounters with sun, bad weather, and brushes with bushes and trees.
Beijing insists that the reclamation projects are part of an effort to support civilians and shipping in an area which has both heavy traffic and difficult weather and has brushed off reports that recent US satellite photos showed two artillery vehicles on one.
The reviewer also pointed out several small touches added to the characters, such as the main character shivering when she is outside the train in the cold weather, and also brushing lint off her clothing while waiting for the player to decide what to do next.
Dressed like fishermen, we traipse through forests and crawl through brush as weather fronts whip through inlets and rumble along the outer coast.
Spurred by ideal weather conditions, a five-alarm brush fire engulfed Staten Island's former Fresh Kills landfill.
A tropical depression came ashore in the Florida Panhandle, sparing coastal Louisiana and Mississippi their first serious brush with tropical weather since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit in 2005.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22 (AP) — A tropical depression came ashore in the Florida Panhandle but quickly weakened on Saturday, sparing Gulf Coast residents their first serious brush with tropical weather since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the region in 2005.
The plains of East Anglia, from which at least half a dozen of these poems seem to derive, offer a vista of "biblical" rainfall ("Seawater, nightly, brought gifts to our door"), while even in the urban setting of "Here Are Some Words" the weather turns out to have "brushed the streets with yesterday's rain".
The weather must be dry enough for brush, dead wood and thickets of stunted pine trees to ignite, and there must be enough wind to spread the flames.
By this point in winter, Southern California was supposed to be dealing with rains and flooding, not brush fires and beach weather.
