Power lines are snapping, live wires are hitting the ground, and the ground itself is covered in a layer of frozen water. The ice storm is hitting Bridgton Academy and hitting it hard. Ice covered every walkway and set of stairs on the campus. Power is out and the school's generator is not going to be able to pump out energy for the next two weeks. For the first time in school history, students were sent home because of weather issues.
With the students gone, the campus is all mine. My house sits at the bottom of the hill that the school is built upon. Since I also have no school, I did what every young boy does; I went outside to have fun. 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. Trying to walk up the pathways of the campus is difficult, because they have a glossy looking sheet covering up their usual pavement grip. 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 had a feeling this day and the up coming days were going to be filled with great excitement. .
I made it to the top of the grassy hill that my friends and I usually sled on, but there was no snow on the ground. The blades of grass were frozen as if each one was a new icicle forming. I decided to try something new. I was going to use the paved walkways around the campus as racetracks. The greatest thing about Bridgton Academy on this day was that it was built atop that steep hill. Therefore, every pathway and road on the campus had a downward pitch to it that just called for my 12-year-old body and three-dollar sled from Renys.
I flew around the campus that day as if it were a frozen NASCAR racetrack, with every paved pathway having new obstacles and turns to navigate. One would be Talladega and the next would be Daytona. I would go down sideways, backwards, and upside down.
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....
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
