cloudburst

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A cloudburst, a hurricane, an electrical bombardment, struck the

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  • The inn must be reached and disembarked at, of course—the cloudburst was deucedly inconvenient. —  Mary Balogh - The Incurable Matchmaker
  • The moaning inferno of the cloudburst was no place to carry on a conversation The storm moved in an upstream direction--out over the ancient lake bed which was to be flooded by the Red Skull dam. —  006 - The Red Skull
  • The river came down like a cloudburst all over us, stinking of madness and fish. —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • During one cloudburst, first base umpire Angel Hernandez hiked up a blue facemask, covering everything except the tip of his red nose and his squinting eyes. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • The opera house suffered a bit of misfortune when it collapsed as it was nearing completion; the result of a cloudburst which flooded the basement before the cement could set.
 

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