Fifty miles of driving with giant, killer crustaceans in the backseat is no obstacle, given the payoff, which I would happily describe as a mouthgasm: the piquant fish sauce, the wet snap of bean sprouts, the bite of fresh lime juice, tender rice noodles, crunchy peanuts, and, at the center of the action, the sweet succulence of the lobster itself.
The first snow storm of the season, dumping a foot and a half of snow across the state, has also left nearly 60,000 people still without power Thursday morning after the heavy, wet snow snapped tree branches and downed power lines all along the Front Range, according to the Coloradoan.
Animals were killed at intervals up to 24 h later, and tissue samples (0.1 0.2 g wet weight) snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −85°C.
In brief, mice were killed via dislocation of the neck and decapitation; brain stems were rapidly dissected on wet ice and snap frozen on dry ice.
The weather in December had been wet, but a cold snap began on 23 December and the ground froze.
Coal mining operations may have weakened the mountain's internal structure, as did a wet winter and cold snap on the night of the slide.
I force myself to look at the band, Scotty snapping the wet shirt and knocking people with his boot.
But the heaviest snowfall was in Roseau, Minn., 10 miles from the Canadian border, where 14 inches of wet, heavy snow fell, snapping tree limbs and causing power failures in the town of 2,500, which bills itself as the birthplace of snowmobiling.
The longer you go without having wet, easily stretched and snapped hair shafts the better!
And in cities like Ramadi that were once largely beyond American control, construction clatter and the slosh of wet concrete has replaced the snap of gunfire.
The umpire records the number of timeouts taken and the winner of the coin toss and the game score, assists the referee in situations involving possession of the ball close to the line of scrimmage, determines whether player equipment is legal, and dries wet balls prior to the snap if a game is played in rain.
