Nonetheless, its storm surge -- joined by heavy wind, rain and tornadoes -- left a swath of destruction from east Texas to Alabama.
About 50 million people in a 800-mile (1, 300-km) swathe of the US are threatened by heavy rain, wind and snow.
Houston Mayor Bill White said it was essential to get the jam cleared before heavy rains and wind begin Friday afternoon.
In Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast, residents prepared for the possibility of heavy rain and wind gusts as strong as 30 mph early Tuesday.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind but Wealden District Council does not believe the weather was to blame.
Residents of the city awakened to crumbling walls, crushed cars, fallen trees and scattered branches after heavy rain, wind and hail hit Wednesday night, the state-run Telam agency said.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
The steel lattice roof collapsed about 04:30 GMT after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
Wallenda described the difficulties of dealing with the wind and heavy mist from the roaring falls.
On Tuesday, the storms raked Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, among other places, with heavy rain and high wind.
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"(Many of) the big cities aren't seeing snow accumulation, they're seeing very heavy rain with the wind, " she said.
The wind gains strength from the thermal energy of the ocean, eventually condensing vapors and circulating air fast enough to form high-speed wind and heavy rain.
"Following a winter of wind and heavy snow disrupting sporting fixtures and with spring in the air, we thought all our troubles were over, " says BBC Wales' head of sport, Geoff Williams.
In the upper Midwest, thousands of homes and businesses also lost power because of heavy wet snow, ice and wind in the past couple of days, while rain and snow raised flooding concerns in various areas of the Midwest.
But it is a very large boat and everything is so heavy, and there was a lot of wind.
The National Weather Service predicted up to 7 inches of heavy, wet snow in southeastern Connecticut and wind gusts up to 50 mph.
But the government's chief energy scientist, David MacKay, has warned that the UK would need to increase its nuclear fleet four-fold or its wind energy 20-fold to decarbonise heavy industry.
Neither solar nor wind are powerful enough to carry the heavy load that a backup generator must provide to a facility such as a hospital or a school or a county prison.
In the Texas Panhandle, wind gusts up to 75 mph and heavy snow had made all roads impassable and created whiteout conditions, said Paul Braun, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation.
Ralls Corp, which had been installing wind turbine generators made in China by Sany Heavy Industry Co.
The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind, and the wind turned their feathers.
The sky was clear and the sun shone brightly on a heavy snow pack, but it was cold and the wind was blowing.
Mitsubishi Heavy hopes to increase its sales of solar cells and wind turbines by three and a half times between 2007 and 2010.
It has been trying to create environmentally friendly alternative energy sources to meet some of the country's enormous power needs and reduce heavy reliance on coal, and has encouraged investments in wind, solar, biomass and other renewables.
The National Weather Service was predicting up to 7 inches of heavy, wet snow in southeastern Connecticut through Friday morning and wind gusts that could hit 50 mph, bringing possible power outages.
The Design: The British built the original 1902 structure to withstand both weather and pirates, with heavy metal shutters on the windows and deep porticos to protect from wind and heat.
On Wednesday, GM announced that its year-long effort to close a deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. was dead, and it would begin to wind down Hummer operations.
Wind-turbine reliability, long a bugbear as frail units flew apart in heavy gusts, is also improved: they should work now close to 98% of the time.
John Kay, from Gloucestershire Highways, said the rain had not been as heavy as expected but a number of trees had come down because of the saturated ground and strong wind.
Wind blade equipment today, probably constitutes roughly 20% of ocean-borne multi-purpose heavy lift cargo today.
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