If a bad storm struck, Mr Lento explains, he could collect an insurance cheque and leave the city.
The streets look like a bad storm rumbled through, not the deadliest fertilizer plant explosion since 31 were killed in Toulouse, France, in 2001.
"Before we went to bed, there was a pretty bad storm, and the ship was really rocking, so our first thought was that we were sinking, because they said 'life jackets' and run, " Miller said.
My cable went out last night just before primetime thanks to a bad ice storm.
We will carry on with a spirit that says no matter how bad a storm is, we come back.
Or, it could be just a bad fall storm.
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The agency had earlier warned of the potential for flooding - but only if there had been bad weather and a storm surge at the same time as the tides.
Like a hurricane brewing over warm Caribbean waters, a perfect storm of bad fiscal policy, bad tax policy, and bad social policy is being pumped up by the printing presses of the Federal Reserve.
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But officials said the storm will be plenty bad enough at its peak to keep residents indoors.
What if you examined Citi through a darker lens, taking into account what it would need to weather a storm of loans gone bad?
The bad tastes comes as the Red Storm (15-10, 7-6 Big East) have lost three of their last four during a stretch they knew would show them where they stood in conference.
Still, the storm was not as bad as some of the forecasts led many to fear, and not as dire as the Blizzard of '78, used by longtime New Englanders as the benchmark by which all other winter storms are measured.
While the apocalyptic view that we face an imminent inflationary depression may be reading too much into the tea leaves, relying on bad data is like flying blind in a storm.
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Pure Thoughts is about 20 miles inland from West Palm Beach, and as the storm moved north, the warnings about bad weather did not, according to Gaver, seem to apply to them.
On Father Capodanno Boulevard in Staten Island's Midland Beach, frigid gusts blew in from the water, but those residents who have moved back in to their houses said the wind wasn't as bad as feared even at the height of the storm.
As it turned out, there was no erring about it at all, as the storm turned out to be at least as bad, probably worse, than expected.
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This incident may show that deep-water drilling is too risky, but it might instead be just a perfect storm of ineffective regulation, poor decision-making, and bad luck, with minimal chance of recurrence.
Millions of Americans are reacting to the bad news by selling their stocks and mutual funds instead of riding out the storm.
As of Monday morning, the track looked bad for New Orleans but the forecast called for Isaac to remain a relatively weak Category 1 storm, which is far less likely to swamp the city than a stronger, bigger storm.
Because an economic storm hit about nine months ago, ten months ago, that caused this recession that is as bad as anything we've seen since the Great Depression.
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