Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Manchineel trees are often signposted as dangerous. William Ellis, ship's surgeon for James Cook on his final voyage, wrote: On the fourth, a party of men were sent to cut wood, as the island apparently afforded plenty of that article; amongst other trees they unluckily cut down several of the manchineel, the juice of which getting into their ...
Storm is a novel written by George Rippey Stewart and published in 1941. The book became a best-seller and helped lead to the naming of tropical cyclones worldwide, [1] even though the titular storm is extratropical. [2] The book is divided into twelve chapters: one chapter for each day of the storm's existence.
The Royal Charter Storm was considered to be the most severe storm to hit the British Isles in the 19th century, [12] [13] with a total death toll estimated at over 800. It takes its name from the Royal Charter ship, which was driven by the storm onto the east coast of Anglesey , Wales with the loss of over 450 lives.
A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the ...
Exmoor National Park began clearing the trees in mid December after footpaths in the 621 mile (1,000km) network were deemed unsafe following Storm Darragh. Most major routes have now reopened but ...
The world is devastated by huge tsunamis. Most of the technology left in the world is on par with the mid- to late 1800s, but there are some newer weapons around. Novel 1987– Unspecified Wraeththu: Storm Constantine: A series of novels set in a world where humanity is replaced as the planet's dominant species by a race of mystic hermaphrodites.
One of the most recent examples of the devastating, costly impact of storm surge occurred in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina flooded the New Orleans area and Mississippi coastline, according to NOAA ...
A collage of the ten deadliest tropical cyclones worldwide since 1990. This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones, including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths.