Word: storming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...reconnaissance plane flew into Allen's eye and discovered a stunningly low barometric reading of 899 millibars-perilously close to the 892 level of 1935. Allen's monstrous wall clouds, the most powerful part of a hurricane, reached out 70 miles from the eye. Whether the worst storm of the past 80 years or merely the second worst, Allen was one for the record books. A long Caribbean heat wave gave the hurricane particular ferocity, and forecasters fear that similar storms may follow until season's end in November...
...entire coffee crop, a major source of income for the impoverished island, and killed at least 50. Before the hurricane cut across Jamaica, Prime Minister Michael Manley pleaded on national radio: "I ask for God's blessing for this night." Though western Cuba was barely scratched, the storm battered nearby Isla Juventud, where 25,000 teen-agers from Third World countries are studying on Cuban scholarships, then swiped at the Yucat...
Along the U.S. Gulf Coast, boats, helicopters and other rescue vehicles went on alert. Some 4,500 workers were evacuated from offshore oil rigs. On one mission, a helicopter crashed, killing 13. For all the warnings, a few stubborn Texans refused to move from the path of the oncoming storm. "It's been 19 years since a hurricane crossed the coast," said Cecil Palmer of the National Weather Service's Houston office. "We have many newcomers who don't know what a hurricane is all about and many oldtimers who feel, 'Well, I rode...
According to early estimates, Allen caused no deaths in the U.S. "Everybody really jumped and left," said National Hurricane Forecaster Gil Clark. "There is not much chance of loss of life unless someone stayed down on one of the beaches." For a while, a tanker grounded by the storm 12 miles off the coast looked as if it would break up and spill its cargo of 11.8 million gallons of crude oil into the high seas. But the vessel appeared to be riding out the storm. "God was good to us," said Eddie Gonzales, a deputy sheriff in Brownsville...
Israel was already at the center of an international storm over the Knesset's passage of a bill the previous week affirming the city of Jersualem as the capital of Israel. In response to that defiant vote, Egypt's Anwar Sadat wrote Begin an 18-page letter in which he laid out a forceful and sweeping denunciation of Israeli actions. Unless Begin "removed the obstacles to peace," Sadat concluded, the Palestinian autonomy talks would once again be put off indefinitely...