The cold temperatures and miserable mixture of snow and rain had people longing for more agreeable weather.
"This storm had everything you could handle at one time: tornadoes, hail, lightning, heavy rain, people clogging the highways, " Mr. Smith said.
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"If there are gales and heavy rain, people stay at home, which is not good for our type of business, " a spokesman told BBC News Online.
Even in the rain, people were there to greet us.
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But what was most eerie about this was that there were so few people around--because of the rain, few people ventured out onto the street.
People are rain sodden, they are carrying all their possessions, their animals, they're all leaving town and you're going further into the heart of the hurricane.
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Similarly, the (plaintiffs) argue that the (plaintiffs) are poor, indigenous people of the rain forest who cannot properly be sued in New York.
Yet, when news came of Mitterrand's passing, thousands of people braved the rain this week to deposit red roses, a socialist symbol, outside his office.
It does not get enough rain to support a few thousand people let alone several million.
In this economic recovery, however, homes have done much more than shelter people from wind and rain.
People in places where rain is usually praised as a blessing are now overwhelmed by its excess.
Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of more than 100, 000 people who packed a rain-soaked St.
Heavy rain has led to flooding with people needing to be rescued from waterlogged homes and roads in the south west of England.
But clouds quickly gathered, bringing rain and small hailstones, forcing people to take shelter under the massive colonnades lining the square for much of the Mass.
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Tens of thousands of people who braved cold rain to watch the smokestack atop the Sistine Chapel jumped in joy when white smoke poured out a few minutes past 7 p.m.
Hoot's family fled fighting in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, like many of the more than 6, 000 people living in this rain-soaked camp, erected in a border customs compound on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey.
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First, the source of my profit was my willingness to take a risk and to help people by alleviating their potential rain-related misery.
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Authorities in Franklin, near the Gulf of Mexico, evacuated 118 people after 7 inches of rain washed over some roads and bridges, the weather service said on its website.
Some had braved the early morning rain to be first in line, with people starting to arrive from 0700 GMT.
Thursday afternoon, rain began to fall on the thousands of people gathered under an overhang at the city's convention center.
Chris Bushby, executive director of SAA, is hoping for some sunshine, as he said two days of rain could see about 10, 000 fewer people attend.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated as heavy rain continued to fall on Sunday, with the towns of Gladstone and Bundaberg preparing for the possibility of major floods.
Environment Agency flood risk manager Phil Younge urged people to "prepare" for further rain.
That is because in the summer, many rain forecasts materialize as isolated showers, which most people don't experience.
In rain and blustery winds, a dozen or so people brandished posters calling on the Kirk, the Presbyterian church shaped by the Scottish Reformation, to repent.
The royal couple then went on a walk-about on Plymouth Hoe where about 2, 000 people had waited in the wind and rain to cheer them.
Mayor Mauricio Macri said about 350, 000 people had been affected by the torrents of rain.
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Many people climbed onto their roofs in the pouring rain after storm sewers backed up.
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