This is a mathematical integration of storm wind speed and longevity.
The storm started to wind down Thursday night in Wichita after leaving 14.2 inches of snow over two days -- the second highest storm total in the city's history, according to the National Weather Service.
Jindal noted that the levees and flood walls in southeast Louisiana held up to the storm's wind and rains, to the relief of citizens and officials alike, but that water did overtop New Orleans' Industrial Canal.
"In general, look it up first by whatever means, " he said, noting sharks falsely popped up in photos after Sandy, swimming in front yards and down streets, along with doctored images of dramatic storm clouds and wind whipping around the Statue of Liberty.
If the property in question was destroyed by wind, then the policy should cover its destruction, but if it was destroyed by storm surge rather than wind, then the insurers are not obliged to pay, the Fifth Circuit said.
Emergency management officials said the evening tide brought fewer problems, but they worried about getting through Friday morning's high tide before the storm was expected to wind down.
There is the rubbish that comes from the land, delivered by run-off, storm water drains and the wind-blown rubbish that people leave behind.
Emergency officials in New Jersey said they were monitoring a coastal storm, expected to bring lashing rain, wind, snow and possibly coastal flooding to the region hit by super-storm Sandy in October.
This devastation dates from 1974, when Mitsubishi shut down an 84-year-old coal mine on the wind-blown, storm-swept island of Hashima, 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of town.
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One Crestron client in the Gulf Coast has a weather vane and cameras that detect wind and automatically shut storm windows in the event of a hurricane.
Pielke's team studied more than a century of storms, spanning a period that included decades when meteorologists lacked the technology to measure wind speeds at a storm's center with any certainty.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Indiana through Maryland are still dealing with this heat without the benefits of electricity, due to a derecho -- or massive storm usually with straight-line wind damage -- that barreled eastward late Friday and into Saturday and was fueled, in part, by the extreme heat.
Nonetheless, its storm surge -- joined by heavy wind, rain and tornadoes -- left a swath of destruction from east Texas to Alabama.
The site records the wind strength of hurricane and tropical storm winds, and strike probabilities.
Earlier this year, the spectacular bird was again in the eye of an Australian storm, this time over another, larger wind park in Victoria, even though research had suggested that the threat to parrots is small.
The direction of the wind matters, too, because wind blowing to shore can drive a storm surge and lead to coastal flooding.
The storm hit California and Arizona on Monday with strong wind and rain, knocking out power to thousands and kicking up a dusty haze in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
He rode out the storm on the roof of a transport truck after the wind and flood jerked him out of his shoes.
Wind gusts could reach up to 60 miles an hour with storm surges in coastal areas of three to five feet, weather officials said.
"The brunt of the storm itself was intense but short -- there was very strong rain and wind for about 15 minutes, at which point the rain cleared and the lightning show began, " said Matthew Burke, a CNN iReporter who photographed lightning sprawling across the New York City skyline.
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On Father Capodanno Boulevard in Staten Island's Midland Beach, frigid gusts blew in from the water, but those residents who have moved back in to their houses said the wind wasn't as bad as feared even at the height of the storm.
Wind whistled in crevices he had not known existed, under the eaves and at the edges of the storm windows.
Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.
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