In Iceland, which is a prosperous country, a lot of the roads get really sketchy just outside of Reykjavík, and there's still only one road through the interior of the island, and when you're out there — it's about thirteen hours of insanely rough and winding driving without any sign of life — you're out of touch.
Winding driving roads Our home-base for quick access to Sequoia National Park was in the town of Three Rivers, located just seven miles from the park entrance.
But the center said the reclassification had no bearing on the powerful winds, driving rains and life-threatening storm-surge expected to accompany its push onto land.
State and local officials also note that the fires are more intense and the winds driving them are twice as strong this time round.
Yesterday's roughest weather stretched from the northern Rockies to the Mississippi Valley, with wind driving snow across the northern Great Plains at more than 50 m.p.h. in places.
That was shortly after the center had reclassified the storm as a post-tropical cyclone, a scientific renaming that had no bearing on the powerful winds, driving rains and life-threatening storm surge expected to accompany its push onto land.
With his back against a wall, his posture was more prayerful than protective against the bitter wind, driving snow and the other perils that might leap from the darkness.
A warm January, a chilly start to spring, an early-April hot spell complete with brush-fire outbreaks, and now, freezing winds driving the rain into the sockets of your skull.
The dialect words, too, are stunningly rich and evocative: "pooties" (snail shells), "crizzle" (to freeze), "cowslaps" (cowslips), "whirl puffs" (a sudden gust of wind driving the dust into an eddy).
Storm surges like those accompanying Hurricane Sandy as it churns north are, at their simplest, a function of strong winds driving too much water into too small a space.
The Most Important Player – maybe not the most valuable, but arguably the most important – for the Royals in the 2015 World Series was cruising Wednesday night, top down, dreadlocks blowing in a misty wind, driving Kansas City to a 7-1 victhat that put the American League Champions up 2-0 in the best-of-seven series.
