He held me, too, and began muttering that from here on life was never going to be the same, that God had felled his only tree and shelter.

NEWYORKER: Naima

They were interested in the habit certain groups of bats have of building collective tents in which to shelter, using tree leaves.

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The Help was just one of seven movies Chastain appeared in last year including Tree of Life, Coriolanus and Take Shelter.

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The other death reported from the storms occurred in Tennessee, where an uprooted tree fell Tuesday onto a storage shed where a man had taken shelter.

WSJ: 2 dead after storms rake South, move to Northeast