"That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them."

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Source : "BAY AREA / Storms head for soggy Bay Area / 'Wet, windy' through end of the week" by A. Estrella, www.sfgate.com. December 28, 2005.

Bryan Swanson

#Wind Quotes #Tree Quotes #Storm Quotes

“You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk”
“Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.41
“I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.”
“The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.”
“I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.”
“I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.”
“I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.”
“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”

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