windstorms

Due to the windstorms from the remnants of Ike, we've been without power at home since around 5pm yesterday.

A World Lit Only By Fire... and a few LEDs 2008

The company's statistics show that "globally, the average number of major weather-related catastrophes such as windstorms, floods or droughts is now three times as high as at the beginning of the 1980's."

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

The company's statistics show that "globally, the average number of major weather-related catastrophes such as windstorms, floods or droughts is now three times as high as at the beginning of the 1980's."

Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense 2009

This year's Florida renewals happened as the insurance industry was tallying up potential losses from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, two other major quakes in New Zealand, severe windstorms in Australia and recent tornadoes that have plagued the U.S. The final cost of those disasters will take months to become clear, but are estimated to be tens of billions of dollars.

Disasters Prompt Reinsurers to Reconsider, Raise Rates in Florida Erik Holm 2011

So it appears that it is beyond the imaginative capacity of people to visualize the impact of more frequent blizzards, windstorms, huge flood-causing rains, multi-year droughts, tornadoes, massive wildfires, farmland destruction, species destruction, coastline inundation, refugees and starvation.

Monumental effort Tom Toles 2011

Among other claims, the suing creditors argued that Brookfield wouldn't be required to protect other creditors from losses incurred in bankruptcy, windstorms, a sale of the properties or other events as Kerzner would have been under the past-due loans.

Brookfield Ends Deal for Atlantis Kris Hudson 2012

FM Global spent $40 million last year to add earthquake simulations to its own 1,600-acre testing complex near West Glocester, R.I. There, it simulates fires, windstorms, earthquakes and explosions, with each simulation costing between $10,000 and $100,000.

Building a Giant Lab to Test Disasters Paul Glader 2010

See if there are a lot of breaks from the windstorms.

Q&A: Expert guide to gardening, bad weather or not 2010

While the coverage was targeted at damage from severe thunderstorms, these storms can be accompanied by hailstorms, tornadoes and windstorms that also are covered by the Mariah bonds over a 19-state territory.

Bonds Prove to Be a Catastrophe Katy Burne 2011

His district kept five engine crews of three firefighters apiece on standby during two windstorms in December, compared with two during most winters.

Fire Risk Rises in Parched California Jim Carlton 2012