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This storm is an incredible storm, but as one woman told me, you know, when it's over she said I still have bills to pay.

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  1. noun An atmospheric disturbance manifested in strong winds accompanied by rain, snow, or other precipitation and often by thunder and lightning.
  2. noun A wind with a speed from 64 to 73 miles (from 103 to 117 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale. Also called violent storm.
  3. noun A heavy shower of objects, such as bullets or missiles.

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  • The storm still raged outside, by far the primary threat to his well-being, but he knew that the storm was a storm, and he still had no idea what it was. —  Escape From Roksamur
  • This storm is an incredible storm, but as one woman told me, you know, when it's over she said I still have bills to pay. —  CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2004
  • But I also vividly remember, as the storm was approaching, that we had taken some unprecedented steps, a lot of emergency declarations being done in an unprecedented way, the president on the phone with the mayors of the respective states to urge evacuation. —  CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2006
  • And just for the record, though, I will tell you that people who called into that nursing home told us that the nursing home informed them on Saturday as the storm was approaching that no, they were not planning to evacuate. —  CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2005
  • One more stop for you: I want you to see something a little bit interesting as the storm moves on by, revealing a line of where the storm was and now, look where it's going. —  CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2005
 

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thunderhead · nor'easter · texas hooker · ribbon lightning · staccato lightning · macroburst

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. from Middle English storm, from Anglo-Saxon storm, storm, = Old Saxon Middle Dutch, Dutch Middle Low German Low German storm = Old High German Middle High German G. sturm = Icelandic stormr = Swedish Danish storm (not in Gothic (Moesogothic); cf. Italian stormo, a fight, Italian dial. sturm = Provencal estorn = Old French estour; estor, estur (later English stour, a tumult, stir) = Irish Gaelic stoirm = Breton stourm, a storm, all from Teutonic); perhaps, with formative -m, from the root of stir (√ stur, √ stor) or of Latin sternere, strew: see stir, strew.
  2. from Middle English stormen, sturmen, from Anglo-Saxon styrman = D. Middle Low German Low German stormen = Old High German sturman, MHG, German stürmen = Icelandic styrma = Swedish storma = Danish storme, storm; cf. Italian stormire, make a noise, stormeggiare, ring the storm-bell, throng together; from the noun.
 

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