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One of the earliest known surfers of Ghost Trees was Fred Van Dyke, who bodysurfed the wave alone in the early 1960s. In the ensuing decades, a number of locals and visitors to the area paddled out and successfully surfed Ghost Trees, but the consensus was that the wave heaved in too fast and broke too close to the rocks. [citation needed]
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 ...
Image credits: Ross Burgener Meanwhile, for Dr. Brandon, the most beautiful natural phenomenon is the northern lights, whereas the most fascinating is the diel vertical migration.
In all, 19 people were killed in England and 4 in France. 15 million trees were uprooted in England. This storm received much media attention, not so much because of its severity, but because these storms do not usually track so far south, the trees and buildings are not used to such winds (indeed, in mid-October most deciduous trees still have ...
Severe storms merged in west central and central Minnesota and then developed more into a line of storms and produced periodic downed trees, power lines, and occasional estimated winds of 60–70 mph (97–113 km/h) as the storms moved southeast along Interstate 94 and into the Twin Cities metro area.
Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months," the hurricane center says of Category 4 storms. A Category 3 storm, while significantly weaker, is still a major hurricane.
In a few minute there were but two trees left standing that were dangerous to us and we watched every movement of their large trunks and comparatively small tops. The center of the storm did not make landfall. Because the coast was sparsely populated, damage was to trees, animals, and structures; only one person died in the Great Olympic Blowdown.
The National Severe Storms Laboratory says that other places that are particularly dangerous during floods include: ... Trim trees that could fall on the home in a storm.