Then, just after noon, a big storm caught me: yellow sun-flare, dulling to sepia.
"Sandy was a big storm that was devastating to a lot of people, " he said.
"Sandy was a big storm that was devastating to a lot of people, " the mayor said.
So is it silly to buy a snow plow stock just because a big storm is coming?
Yesterday's comments left it unclear when, or whether, the federal government will pay the full cost of guarding against the next big storm.
The local authority said workers were still trying to catch up with the effects of the last big storm in December last year.
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The market is busy -- people are restocking after a big storm -- and an alarm cuts through the building like a chill.
Curtis is not totally crazy: a big storm does arrive, and he takes the family into an underground shelter, a space that he has spent a lot of money expanding and making comfortable.
"I started with plenty of wind, but at one point it died down and I drifted for 300 miles, " says Browning, who also endured a big storm during the Mini Transat's 1, 000-mile qualifying race.
This is going to be a big storm.
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This is a serious and big storm.
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Now there is growing concern that a really big storm might collapse much of the global electric grid, particularly in places with long high-voltage transmission lines such as Australia, Canada, China and the United States.
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The pattern of damage was similar to the pattern of big-storm frequency uncovered by Dr Elsner.
You remember seeing the satellite how big that storm was and how close it was to the state of Florida?
Sure, a big hail storm or the like will do a number on your megabucks rooftop installation, but the sun itself, the very thing those cells are designed to capture, gradually damages their internals, reducing efficiency.
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Eventually, though, a really big solar storm will deliver its full fury on the American heartland, and then the accumulated design decisions that have been made as the domestic electrical grid expanded tenfold over the last half-century will lead to disaster.
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Obviously, everybody is aware at this point that this is going to be a big and powerful storm.
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The top bands played there -- the Big Three, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes -- and the lines would start forming hours in advance of the doors opening, says Best.
At an Accel venture capital conference recently, 98 percent of the attendees knew about Hadoop, Flume, and Storm (big data for Twitter), but Wall Street is just starting to ask about them, he said.
The storm is so big that it fills most of the Gulf of Mexico.
It was the sixth Big East victory for the Red Storm (14-7, 6-3), matching last season's total.
No one really knows how big of a hole the current storm will create, because of the lack of clarity.
That was a big concern we had as the storm moved north, and so we have seen record flooding in Vermont, record flooding in New York.
This evening, in Midland Beach, New York, on a street lined with houses and businesses devastated by the storm, a great big Christmas tree shines out of the darkness.
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