The truth of the entrepreneurial life is a tornado of long hours, high risk and uncertainty.
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Indeed, upon his arrival, Napoleon spun into a veritable tornado of activity, ordering a plethora of public works, like boosting agriculture, road-building, marsh draining and a thorough overhaul of the legal and education systems.
Depending on your attendant, this experience can be delicious (a little like being washed by a giant cat) or tumultuous (picture a tornado made of sandpaper).
If you insure 100 people in 100 different towns against a tornado striking, you collect premiums and then, when a tornado strikes one of those towns, you make the payout to one claimant and the premiums from the rest cover it.
The weather service issued a rare tornado warning as a line of thunderstorms raced through New Hampshire into western Maine.
Another innovation with the new research could result in forecasters providing the strength of a tornado at the time it is formed, instead of after the fact, as is currently the case.
PORTLAND, Maine Damaging winds flattened trees and utility wires and knocked out power in parts of northern New England on Sunday, flights were delayed in New York City and there were reports of a tornado in South Carolina as the East Coast weathered the remnants of violent storms that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma.
The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a whole year, and even an average tornado has a power similar to that of a large power station.
One of the biggest cities hit Saturday and early Sunday was Wichita, Kansas, where resident Katie Sykes said torrential rains produced a "river in my front yard" and the prospect of a tornado had her shuddering in fear.
Sightings by crews of six RAF Tornado jets of a UFO over Germany in 1990, believed to be a stealth aircraft.
Det Insp Cleland added the number of metal thefts had also been cut due to another initiative called operation Tornado "a code of conduct for the scrap metal dealers".
Even the force of a hurricane, which at least has a long wind up and warning time, can't match the explosive and random fury of a tornado's touchdown and destruction.
Faltskog boarded a chartered jet, which previously belonged to millionaire aviator Howard Hughes, and flew straight into the middle of a tornado which forced Boston's airfield to close.
And, with help from readers, he live-tweeted a walk down the 17-mile path of a deadly tornado in 2013.
At the height of the storm, the National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency for a number of areas in and around Oklahoma's capital city, with tornadoes reported outside Moore, near the suburb of Bethany, north of Union City and outside Tinker Air Force Base.
Armed with nothing but a flashlight and finding no signs of life, firefighter David Harmon made one final search of tornado wreckage and made the discovery of a lifetime.
Meteorologists had warned about particularly nasty weather Friday but said the storm's fury didn't match that of a top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado that struck suburban Moore, where a tornado killed 24 on May 20.
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The cruelty of a tornado is that so often there is no time to evacuate.
Winds in the area caused the storm to rotate, and that rotation promoted the development of a tornado.
In Tennessee, officials confirmed that a tornado with peak winds of 115 mph touched down in Mount Juliet.
The Fujita scale is used to estimate the wind speed of a tornado by the damage the tornado causes.
His scheme replaces the chimney with a tornado-like vortex of spinning air, which could extend several kilometres into the atmosphere.
In northwestern South Carolina, authorities checked unconfirmed reports of a tornado, said Jessica Ashley, a shift supervisor for Anderson County's 911 center.
"I'm not the type to stand in the closet for a couple of hours because there is a tornado warning, " he said.
All the volunteer firefighters from this city who recently traveled to Iowa to help another community recover from the devastation of a tornado.
There were also reports of a tornado in Lowestoft, Suffolk, where a woman was taken to hospital as a precaution after a tree fell on her car.
We may just need to know to stay indoors hunkered down in the bathtub or the basement because of the approach of a tornado to keep ourselves and our families safe.
The weather conditions are similar to those of the afternoon 28 July when a tornado struck the Moseley and Kings Heath parts of the city.
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Two men, both in their 70s, were confirmed dead as a result of an earlier tornado that hit Shawnee, said Elliott, the spokeswoman for the state medical examiner's office.
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Just hours after the Class of 2011 walked across this stage, the most powerful tornado in six decades tore a path of devastation through Joplin that was nearly a mile wide and 13 long.
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