• Meanwhile, GNER was forced to cancel all services between Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the north east of England, Yorkshire and London's King's Cross after the wind and snow brought down overhead lines in the Borders.

    BBC: Passengers stranded in snow chaos

  • He rode out the storm on the roof of a transport truck after the wind and flood jerked him out of his shoes.

    CNN: Ruins, deaths don't stop family's return

  • Residents of the city awakened to crumbling walls, crushed cars, fallen trees and scattered branches after heavy rain, wind and hail hit Wednesday night, the state-run Telam agency said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • And after Katrina, Ben Franklin High was terribly damaged by wind and water.

    WHITEHOUSE: A Commitment to Restoring New Orleans

  • The same study projects a cost of 6 cents per KWH for a conventional coal plant, 7 cents for one fueled by natural gas, 6 cents for nuclear reactions and for wind, and 29 cents for solar (after subsidies).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Staff at Mayflower Marina in Devonport battled for a number of hours to upturn part of a wooden pontoon which had become trapped on sunken columns that anchor it after having been twisted by the wind and waves.

    BBC: Gale-force storms result in chaos

  • However, if you value a quieter, more contemplative life, one punctuated only by the scraping of chairs after a leisurely lunch and the wind rustling through the lavender fields, a few miles back from the coast lies the picturesque village of Vidauban.

    FORBES: Provencal Retreat

  • The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind but Wealden District Council does not believe the weather was to blame.

    BBC: Langney roof collapse

  • The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.

    BBC: Langney roof collapse

  • The steel lattice roof collapsed about 04:30 GMT after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.

    BBC: Eastbourne Langney Centre shops remain closed

  • Energy sources such as geothermal, solar and wind energy will be sought after as solutions.

    FORBES: Peak Oil Plan

  • An hour after landing Bozeman, the clouds turned gray-blue and the wind kicked up to 30 mph.

    FORBES: Bleary-Eyed In Bozeman

  • The second field slanted up to the highway, and the wind moved uphill across it, wave after wave.

    NEWYORKER: Beginners

  • Navitus Bay Development Ltd announced a "significant reduction" to its proposed wind park between Dorset and the Isle of Wight, after public consultation.

    BBC: England

  • And Wind River Systems is flat to slightly lower after the company beat by a nickel its fourth-quarter figure, missed on revenues and guided below consensus for the first quarter.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • To ensure the reliability of the electric grid after that date, TXU is planning on building 1500 megawatts of wind generation and is considering building multiple nuclear facilities, though these would not come on line by 2015 at the earliest--too late to resolve the looming power shortage.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And, after a few weeks on the job, Bulriss caught wind that some employees were engaged in price-fixing discussions with competitors in the bromine business.

    FORBES: Paddling Upstream

  • By August 23, 2001, the detectives had eliminated thousands of suspects, had taken 3, 321 statements, and were due to wind up the inquiry once again, after finding no DNA matches.

    BBC: A sock belonging to Marion Crofts

  • The day after Thanksgiving the parks and the sidewalks were covered with snow and the chilling wind was blowing across the department store windows that had already put up the Christmas decorations.

    FORBES: Santa Arrived Too Late

  • Along with the fog at Torrey Pines, the Tournament of Championship at Kapalua didn't start until Monday because of unusually high wind, and the 54-hole event was completed some 29 hours after the opening tee shot.

    NPR: Monday Blues: Bay Hill Pushed Back By Thunderstorm

  • Khobaib Hussain, Ishaaq Hussain and Ali were forced to return just three days later after a relative got wind of the real reason for their journey.

    BBC: Terror plot: Jail terms for Birmingham bomb plotters

  • Before, during and after the performance, musicians play a variety of traditional melodies on a wind instrument known as a gralla, setting the rhythm to which the tower is built.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • After two days with no wind--the first such episode locals could remember--he and his crew loaded Deuce back on the trailer and drove back to Racine.

    FORBES: Shiver Me Timbers

  • By looking at past storms, the researchers created a formula that says damage is proportional to wind speed multiplied by itself and then taking that number and multiplying it by itself, after adjusting for inflation and factors such as population.

    WSJ: Few Precedents to Help Predict Hurricane Damage

  • As of this morning, you can buy Finavera well below expected net cash on hand after the Wildmare deal closes and the Cloosh payment, and get an additional 234.5 MW wind projects under development (some quite advanced) essentially thrown in for free.

    FORBES: Finavera: The Wind Projects are Free [UPDATED]

  • The wind all but came out of the Knicks' sails after Hibbert's block, as both Chandler and backup big man Kenyon Martin fouled out in the waning minutes.

    WSJ: Pacers End Knicks' Season

  • China doubled its wind-power capacity that year, then doubled it again the next year, and the year after.

    NEWYORKER: Green Giant

  • Gone were the primeval rainforests, replaced with mile after mile of sun-drenched sugar cane, and grand plantation houses that look lifted from Gone With The Wind (and indeed are occasionally used as movie sets).

    BBC: Blending of cultures in Mauritius

  • But Wimbledon's recent goalless run came to an end after 14 minutes when Watson misjudged Robbie Earle's 50-yard ball out of defence in a swirling wind and Ekoku drilled it home via Thomas Myhre's left-hand post.

    BBC: Growing up in public

  • "In general, look it up first by whatever means, " he said, noting sharks falsely popped up in photos after Sandy, swimming in front yards and down streets, along with doctored images of dramatic storm clouds and wind whipping around the Statue of Liberty.

    WSJ: Hoaxes, scams abound after disasters like Boston

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