O'LEARY: But drive around the parish and there's no forgetting that a major storm came through.
"This was a storm that obviously came upon us very quickly, without a great deal of notice, and the devastation that was caused is very significant, " New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said, noting there's a particular need for fuel, generators and communications equipment in light of the storms.
"I, poor, miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, during a dreadful storm, in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship's company being drowned, and myself almost dead, " Crusoe writes in his first entry.
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They're using data collected by the weather service during the storm, to try to understand the surge, try to understand the wave heights, and they're going to create a computer model, as opposed to the scale model of a city, for the storm as it came up from the south and the Gulf of Mexico, and see if they can recreate the exact conditions.
In the newer and more area-specific Regional Snowfall Index, this recent storm came in behind the No. 1 storm in 1969 and ranked a more respectable 16th with a 9.04 total score.
The worst damage in New York came from a 13-foot storm surge that filled Battery Park City and streets from the South Street Seaport throughout the Lower East Side.
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But we've weathered the storm and become a higher-profile company than when we came in.
When the storm came, she showed us that we are a society in danger of being washed away by statism.
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And this storm came at the end of what some call a lost decade -- because what happened between 2000 and now, it was a decade in which paychecks shrank and jobs barely grew, and the costs of everything from health care to college education went up.
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He said Mr. Lazaridis came up with the Storm's marquee innovation, a touch screen that physically clicked.
When wading through a storm drain near Jamaica Bay in New York, Duncan and a friend came very close to drowning.
The last bucket of the run came on a lefthanded lob from Branch to give the Red Storm a 31-21 edge with 4:29 left.
Together, they sat out the rest of the storm in their neighbor's house until late afternoon, when a fellow officer came to tell John it was time to return to duty.
He explained how he had just gotten his chicken pot-pie out and the storm started coming and he went into the closet, and came out without a scratch.
We endured a little discomfort last week, but compared to the massiveness of the storm in other areas, we came out almost unscarred.
The storm came dangerously close to WSMV, the station reported: Workers had to move to a safe room when a buzzer in the newsroom alerted them of storm danger around 4 a.m.
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Then came wins over DePaul, Rutgers and Seton Hall before DePaul lost to the Red Storm for a second time.
Saturday's death in Cuba, Missouri, came as debris struck a woman's car in a grocery store parking lot during a severe storm, CNN affiliate KMOV reported.
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