100px|Flooding from the storm in Ocean City, New Jersey
The 1991 Perfect Storm was a powerful storm that lashed the East
Coast of the United States for several days with 30 ft (9.1 m) waves.
The initial area of low pressure developed off Atlantic Canada on
October 28 and moved westward toward New England. It absorbed Hurricane
Grace to its south and intensified significantly. The center remained
offshore, although the high waves caused over $200 million in damage
(1991 USD) and 13 deaths. More than 38,000 people were left without
power, and along the coast high waves inundated roads and buildings. In
portions of New England, damage was worse than Hurricane Bob had caused
two months prior. Aside from tidal flooding along rivers, the storm's
effects were primarily concentrated along the coast. In the middle of
the storm, the Andrea Gail sank, killing its crew of six and inspiring
a book and later a movie. It later received the name "the Perfect
Storm" after a conversation between Boston National Weather Service
forecaster Robert Case and author Sebastian Junger. After moving over
the Gulf Stream, the system evolved into a small hurricane that
dissipated after striking Nova Scotia. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
996:
Holy Roman Emperor Otto III issued a document that contained the
earliest known use of "Osterrîchi" the Old High German name of Austria.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/name_of_Austria>
1611:
The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The
Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven
years to the day after the first certainly known performance of his
tragedy Othello was held in the same building.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest>
1755:
A 9.0 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed Lisbon, an event
which led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake>
1928:
Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk introduced the current
29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as
the official writing system of the Turkish language.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet>
1998:
The European Court of Human Rights was instituted as a permanent court
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the European Convention on Human Rights.
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send-up (n):
A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.
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It's not too near for me
Like a flower I need the rain
Though it's not clear to me
Every
season has it's change
And I will see you
When the sun comes out again.
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