As soon as you get a get a bit of strong wind, trees start going over.
The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run when underwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
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The silence was broken only by the wind in the trees and the waves of the bordering sea.
Sweeping strings evoke images of a beautiful sunny summer day, laying in the grass by a pond, complete with the chirps of crickets and the sound of wind through the trees.
Sun dapples the fairways, and wind rustles the trees in each of the 15 courses it has captured so far, including Congressional, Bethpage Black, Olympic Club, Pinehurst No. 8, the Old Course at St.
You can feel explosions of various magnitudes, sense a person walking behind you or wind rustling through trees, feel the sensation of wheels splashing through varying depths of water, discern between a V8 and a V6 engine.
Flood coverage isn't part of regular homeowners-insurance policies, which cover property damage from such things as fallen trees, wind and fires.
Gusts of wind ripped leaves off the trees in front of the sturdy brownstone buildings.
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The sound of wind and rain lashing the trees outside infiltrated the silence.
The strong wind caused a number of trees to fall down across the island, blocking some roads, including at Colborne Road, La Brigade and Rue du Friquet.
Sinewy roots stretch above the snowline and the skeletal frames of leafless birch trees tremble in the wind.
In this case it was the family-friendly classic My Neighbor Totoro, in which sisters wandering in the forest meet King Totoro, a spirit whose powers include making the trees grow and the wind blow.
The government has always been keen to keep Rwanda clean and correspondents say the capital, Kigali, is much cleaner than other African cities, where thin blue plastic bags can been seen in fields and on trees fluttering in the wind.
Trees are bent and twisted from wind that seems unimaginable on this still day.
He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.
In Londonderry, wind speeds are up to 90 mph and fallen trees are causing disruption to traffic.
For one thing, lightweight mechanical arms are needed to reach high into trees and pick with precision, despite wind and uneven terrain.
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.
"A researcher I was speaking to recently reckons green walls in urban canyon environments (areas where walls are higher than the width of the road separating them) are more effective than trees at collecting particles because the way the wind eddies around and then moves down the wall, " Laurence said.
And the wind died down and not a single little leaf stirred on the trees by the castle.
Encouraged by the wind, it defies gravity and flows up the gentle incline toward the trees.
Entire roofs were ripped off homes, trees were uprooted and cars overturned in the street as the wind whipped down the streets.
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If the knock on Romney is that his politics change with the wind, voters need to see a leader as sturdy as those Michigan trees.
John Kay, from Gloucestershire Highways, said the rain had not been as heavy as expected but a number of trees had come down because of the saturated ground and strong wind.
The trees are being attacked by a fungus that can be transmitted by wind, insects and rain splash.
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Because the output of a wind turbine also tends to increase proportionally with its distance from barriers such as trees or buildings, the most productive -- and cost-effective -- turbines sit atop tall towers erected on an acre or more of open land.
Even outside the areas most at risk for tornadoes, wind gusts could reach 80 mph in some areas -- enough to bring down trees and power lines, she said.
The trees grow small and stunted, their living branches bleached bone-white by wind and dust.
The trees, donated by members of the public, will help to slow the wind, cause sand to be deposited and allow the shrinking dunes to grow.
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