Crossing it on a windy day can make your heart skip a beat or two.
At home I remember the cyclists, one of them in their eighties, who I met on a very windy Saturday morning riding around a twenty mile course in New Longton to help people living in the developing world overcome their water shortage.
"The topography plus the hot, windy weather created a perfect storm for the fire to spread fast, " he said.
Ketevan Vatiashvili, 23, stopped at a tiny church on a windy hilltop to pray for peace in her town.
The Frankenstorm, still known as Hurricane Sandy, becomes a windy, wet, dangerous reality.
Entering from the road, a short hike down a windy path flanked by wild grasses is required to reach the simple changing hut.
Below you'll see the white salt flatlands being crisscrossed--if it's a windy day--by landsailers, zipping around on what look like windsurfers on wheels.
Wakefield's Danny Brough got the game under way at a windy Belle Vue as the players and crowd focused on the game in hand.
On a windy point called Arnavutkoy, on the European side of the Bosphorus, clusters of weather-beaten fishermen hurled their fishing lines deep into the channel.
The Cardinals scored at least one run in each of the first four innings to mount a 6-0 lead on a windy South Florida afternoon.
Howard's fame proved as fleeting as skywriting on a windy day.
The All Blacks had swept past the Springboks 32-12 in last week's opening match, and they were the better side once again in a windy Wellington.
Resuming in fifth, and needing to come second to dethrone Woods, Westwood fired a 73 on a windy Old Course to end 10 shots off Kaymer's 17-under total.
It was on a windy Wednesday morning that technology writer Ryan Matthew Pierson woke up to discover the front door to his apartment was blown open by a strong breeze.
Removing this potent source of data from someone attempting to thread their way through a crucial conversation is like asking someone to drive a windy country road at sixty miles an hour with their eyes closed.
But despite the enticing swimming pool at the Winter Palace Hotel, the thrilling felucca ride on a windy Nile afternoon with sails billowing, and the bountiful dinners of hummus and salads all the more delightful for being actively encouraged to eat with one's hands, one pressing question remains.
"It's a tough course, it's windy, there's quite a few ascents, " he said.
It turned out to be just a bit wet and windy, no worse than any average day in a British winter.
He and colleague John Farrar practiced fighting a large engine fire on a recent windy day.
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The ocean temperature is around 85-degrees, and despite windy white caps and a tiny swell, the water is calm.
It was a little windy, so it was getting in my face, and I put it in this '80s scrunchie I happened to have.
Some illustrative events took place in the Windy City soon after a young Harvard Law School graduate arrived there little more than a decade ago.
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Old man Fred Couples, at 53, knows how to avoid trouble at Augusta and got through Friday's windy second round with a journeyman's 71, for a five-under-par total.
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Forecasters say it will be mostly cloudy and windy, with perhaps a few brighter spells in the north and east of the UK and the odd outbreak of mainly light rain or drizzle.
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Unusually dry, warm and windy weather helped trigger a rash of wildfires across the region Monday, causing traffic and transit problems, consuming hundreds of acres of forest in South Jersey and forcing evacuations on Long Island.
Perhaps the government hopes that the issue will just blow away like a bag on windy day.
Parts of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Fife were also affected during a dry and windy spell of weather.
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