Her hypnotically paced expressive solo, impassive of face and measured of tread and movement, draws the viewer in as if to the eye of a hurricane.

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Last month, the PacX four got caught in a storm with 26-foot waves, winds up to 115 miles an hour, and pressure as low as the eye of a hurricane.

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Completely in a category of its own, the hurricane's eye measures about 1, 250 miles wide and is surrounded by fluffy white clouds the size of Texas.

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The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Irene from a category two to a category one hurricane but says winds gusting up to 90mph extend outwards some 90 miles from the eye of the storm.

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