The ice storm is hitting Bridgton Academy and hitting it hard. Ice covered every walkway and set of stairs on the campus. ... The sleeting ice did not bother me, and the chill in the air is never a problem to a boy who is having a pleasurable experience. ... Walking up I knew my red plastic sled was going to zoom across the top of the ice with barely any friction holding back. ... I tried to go to the inside of Peter, but it seems simultaneously he clipped with his right arm an ice covered fallen tree branch. ...

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The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee, follows the lives of two typical families in their struggle with each other for love and acceptance. ... Later, after Thanksgiving, a huge ice storm rolls into the small Connecticut town in which the story takes place. ... All in all The Ice Storm is a rather mediocre film. ... Definitely wait to see The Ice Storm when it comes out on video....

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Perfect Storm Essay In the book "The Perfect Storm", the seven fishermen had to go through many hardships to try and stay alive, because it was them against the swells. ... They had thought it was a normal storm, like all of the others they had all gone through, but in reality it was a perfect storm. ... The seven fishermen work as a team, to catch the fish, then they get the fish on deck, and then they have a second team who slices the fish open and then fills the fish with ice so that it can stay fresh. ... "A lesser version of that is heading toward the great banks: Hurricane Grace, a...

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Clouds are collections of microscopic water droplets and ice crystals that float in the air. ... Certain types of clouds often appear before a storm. ... Storm clouds often look gray because they are so thick that most of the sun's light cannot pass through them. ...

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Professor X, Gambit, Beast, Night crawler, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops and Storm. ... Cloud seeding can improves a cloud's ability to produce precipitation by adding to a cloud tiny particles called ice nuclei which water needs it to freeze. ... Cloud top seeding aircraft use ejectable flares and dry ice, which are released directly into the super-cooled cloud top. ... For example, in the movie X-men, Storm is the character that has this unique ability. ... But for Storm in the movie X-men, she can fly by creating winds strong that enough to support its weight. ...

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The Perfect Storm In October of 1991, some 200 miles off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts, a collision of three monstrous storms left a sword fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, stranded in the high seas. This boat was defenseless against what meteorologists would call, The Perfect Storm. ... The director and the cast seem to show us the joy that these men take from their work, whether they are setting bait lines, hooking in fish, packing fish with ice, or even facing the chance of death when a shark accidentally gets reeled in. ... The Coast Guard members seemed to dive right into the st...

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One major disturbance that effects the way trees grow are ice storms. Ice storms can be deadly for many trees but trees also can not be damaged at all because they become resistant to the ice. ... An ice storm can produce up to 2cm of ice on power lines, telephone poles, and tree limbs. ... Lemon had also studied the effects of a glaze storm in New York, but he mainly focused on forest ecology of ice storms. ... All these forms of research can determine if a tree species is susceptible, or resistance to an ice storm that may produce up to or more the 2cm of ice on tree limb....

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The results were fatal. 78 men from the ships crew were frozen; their bodies found scattered around ice pans like seals. ... Jesse lead the men through the blizzard and later while the men were on the ice Jesse told the men to pretend that they were fishing. ... Once out on the ice he realized that he had not carried a compass with him; a mistake that would take the lives of many. George, once aboard the Stephano did not have nerve enough to tell the "old man" that they should stay on the boat all night for fear of a storm. ... Even so, he still put them back on the ice which proved that he ca...

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Then I heard someone behind me say that was the ice bucket challenge, so I began to search online what the ice bucket challenge was and why people were doing it. ... The rules of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge are very simple. ... One of the biggest talks of the Ice Bucket Challenge was where is the money actually going. ... For example, retired pro wrestler Lance Storm went on to comment that it would be better to actually help someone with ALS and donate money directly to ALS patients, rather than leave it in the hands of the charities ("Scarpa"). ... The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was...

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We heard that there was an incoming storm developing around the Atlantic heading to Florida. ... I was just ten years old and I was always excited when I heard that there a chance that a storm was developing, but also nervous if the major storm path was heading our way. ... They thought the storm was not going to be a factor when it got close to land. ... As soon as we got there, I jump out the car so fast I tripped over the ice chest and landed head first on the hard lawn. ... They told this is where we going to stay for awhile until the storm pass through and see what impacts it had on the c...

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Space storms do affect Earth, just in less severe ways than other planets. ... Storms The storms on Mars are not hurricanes or thunderstorms. Dust storms occur on Mars. ... Dust storms also can turn the color of clouds into yellow or red. The creation of a dust storm is quite simple. ...

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At this point the Coleridge uses alliteration; "The ice was here, the ice was there,/ The ice was all around;" (59-60) to show the danger that the mariner and his crew faced. When all looked grim for the crew, the Albatross appears and calms the storm and ice. ... At first thought, the crew was very unpleasant to the mariner because they assumed the Albatross is what kept the storms away; but after a few days they realized they were fine without the bird and apologized to the mariner.Therefore, the reader can infer that the crew symbolizes the Romans in biblical times. ... In fact, ...

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The Great Red Spot is a storm moving in a counter-clockwise direction. Smaller storms can be found through out the clouds of Jupiter. ... Jupiter has a cluster of three white oval-shaped storms that lie southwest. ... Below this is a layer dominated by ice where "ice- indicates a thick liquid mixture of water, methane, and ammonia under high temperatures and pressures. At the center is a rocky ice core up to 10 Earth masses. ...

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Reality is depicted as birches bending and cracking after a freezing rain from the ice that was left behind. ... He tells the reader the real reason of what bent the birches in line 5 when he states "Ice-storms do that." In the next six lines, Erica Smith notes, "we are inclined to view the ice storm negatively because Frost has used it to refute his hoped-for explanation in line three" (Smith 20). ... His interpretation replaced the reality of the ice storm being the cause (Thomason 15,16). ... The speakers" imagination is soon disturbed by "Truth" in lines 21, 22: But I was going ...

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Various ices are present. ... The rings are mostly water ice, but include rocky particles with icy coatings. ... Storms are a rare thing on Saturn but do occur. Storms occur when warm air is generated. The diameter of the storms is about the diameter of Earth. ...

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The Associated Press reported on August 27 of this year that "sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about thirty years." ... With this trend, within 5-10 years, the Arctic could be free of ice in the summer. NASA ice scientist Jay Zwally said, "It also means that climate warming is also coming larger and faster than the models are predicting and nobody's really taken into account that change yet." Reports are coming in that large amounts of methane gas are being released into the world's oceans from the melting of long frozen Arctic sea ice. ... According to...

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(Lansing) The temperature in the highest cloud is around -30 F and they are made up exclusively of ice crystal columns. ... (Lansing) So snow crystals are really soil particles that have been dressed up in ice. ... (Byrd) When the clouds for water vapor are condensed into tiny droplets, these droplets are usually found as ice crystals in a lake effect storm. (Columbian) Eventually the ice crystals form into snowflakes. ... The lake effect storm can leave behind up to a foot of snow with in a couple of hours. ...

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He compares the ice metaphorically to "heaps of broken glass." ... Yet, Frost points out that he wishes the "birch", which I've come to understand symbolizes the human capability of life and learning, could have such a different fate than one laden with ice and burdon bent branches. ... The boy's trees are used gently, avoiding the pain of being bent forever by callous ice storms. These ice storms that come quickly, and leave too quickly as to learn from what they've touched. ...

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Such is the case in Linda Hogan's novel, Solar Storms#. While not at all shy about speaking her mind directly and sharing her beliefs throughout Solar Storms, Hogan also whispers other subtle ideas throughout her novel through the names she chooses for the people and places. ... And that is exactly what Adam's Rib is in Solar Storms; it is the place where each of these strong women truly begins to form their life, to come to see who they really are. ... We are told that it is here that many animals come when the lake is frozen and then are trapped when the ice melts. ... Just as sign...

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Over the past century, the great majority of glaciers and the ice sheets have lost mass, which can lead to rising sea levels (Climate Institute, 2010). The researchers found that when the temperature goes beyond a particular level or a high temperature is sustained for a long period, glaciers and ice sheets will lose mass (Climate Institute, 2010). ... Global warming also results in natural disasters; for example, storms, floods, and droughts are the effects of global warming. Although a great number of studies haven't found evidence that the number of storms is increasing because of glob...

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This phenomenon was proved by Carter who stated that tornadoes are caused by temperature increase and storm chasing. ... Some scientists try to explain tornadoes and storms as a result of changing weather conditions neglecting the influence of global warming on this process. ... Scientists suppose that removal of an ice core and building of the roads in winter have a direct impact on global warming. ... Drilling Ice Cores has a very negative effect on climate in tundra areas. ... Arctic ice is the main storage of drinking water, but if it can change the natural cycles in water, and resulted in...

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SUNSPOTS dark, usually irregularly shaped spots on the sun's surface that are actually solar magnetic storms. ... Because the sun rotates on its axis, a sunspot cannot be observed continuously for more than about two weeks Sunspot activity produces various disturbances on earth-these include magnetic storms which manifest themselves as aurorae, interference with radio reception and electric power grids, and disturbances of the magnetic compass ECLIPSE mankind's first record of an eclipse of the Sun was made in China in 2136 BC. Chinese could predict eclipses by analyzing the m...

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Mars is the Fourth planet from the Sun and also the third largest terrestrial planet in our Solar System with a diameter of 6,792km which is roughly half of Earth's. Mars also gets its reddish appearance from Iron Oxide (or rust) in its soil. It has an almost constant view of at least one of its two...

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They can tell when a storm is coming by how the seals surface in the water. ... The bear looks for snow caps in the ice, which is where the seals make their dens, then they break away the bottom of the ice to make it weak. When the seal enters the den, the bears hit the ice once and the ice cracks the seals scull. ...

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After a request from the government to devise a substance to harden the muck and mud that the soldiers typically had to crawl through, Felix creates ice-nine. ... In the end, the world is entirely frozen over after the waters of San Lorenzo are exposed to the ice-nine. ... This is best demonstrated when all of the people who survived the tornadoes kill themselves with ice-nine because Bokonon said they should. ... He learns a valuable lesson from his new wife, Mona, when during the storms she declines having much sex. ... The Hoenikker children also show these qualities; each of them have been...

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