In Tongue Twisters, Kai interprets a series of tongue twisters written by prolific children's book author Fatima Sharafeddine.
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That was one of 12 twisters that occurred, he said.
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And some 20 twisters were spotted in the greater region.
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Twisters toppled mobile homes and left debris strewn for acres.
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Piercing screams The barreling twisters left people stunned and communities devastated.
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In all of 2016 just 17 people were killed by twisters.
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The US records, on average, more than 1,000 twisters per year.
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Supercell tornadoes Wedges are generally the biggest and most destructive twisters.
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Communities in central Texas and western Louisiana, already hit by flash floods and twisters in the first round, will be hit once more by high winds, twisters and intense rain, according to AccuWeather and the NWS.
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Communities in central Texas and western Louisiana hit by deadly flash flooding and twisters over the weekend will see another round of high winds, twisters and intense rain, according to AccuWeather and the National Weather Service (NWS).
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The devastating Missouri twisters capped a week of destructive storms across the country.
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She had gained a slight British accent and a love of tongue-twisters.
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At one breathtaking moment, the storm chasers spotted three twisters in the sky.
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Local news showed photographs of two of the destroyed homes by the twisters.
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Ten twisters struck the state and about 37 hammered the Southeast on Sunday.
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It was the 241th consecutive day that twisters have struck the US, meteorologists said.
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Except for Rehobeth, there were no reports of fatalities from the possible twisters, however.
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The Houston office of the National Weather Service reported 12 twisters in its area.
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Cree groups retorted that they have coped with tongue twisters ever since Europeans arrived.
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For Kodak Black, it's a more concisely structured take on his roundabout tongue twisters.
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That&aposs four times as many twisters as the rest of the world combined.
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Communities in central Texas and western Louisiana, already hit by flash floods and twisters in the first round last weekend, were hit once more by high winds, twisters, egg-sized hail and intense rain Thursday and Friday, according to AccuWeather and the NWS.
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She says tongue twisters, nursery rhymes, fables, and poems that were part of your childhood.
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Lee County was hit by two twisters, and one of them was a true monster.
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These low-pressure, tornado-like twisters spin at nearly 60 miles per hour (100 km/h).
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Ice cold bonus fact: West Midlands Safari Park has a whole rollercoaster ride dedicated to Twisters.
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Along with this, another style that fed into the video was the 2001 animation, Wave Twisters.
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Rescuers pulled people from homes damaged by the twisters, Taylorville Fire Department Chief Mike Crews said.
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Most illustrations in Tongue Twisters use a primary color palette, using a limited range of hues.
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After the twisters, Ohio Department of Transportation crews used snow plows to clear highways of debris.
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Oklahoma — a state synonymous with tornadoes — didn't have a single twisters through April 30, a new record.
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Spate of twisters One of the most damaging tornadoes touched down in Grayson County in north Texas.
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Some tongue twisters proved to be challenging, especially when they had little reference to the real world.
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A total of 41 twisters touched down in the southern US over the weekend, according to CNN meteorologists.
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Nobody was injured by the twisters, which the weather service says hit Winsted at about 3:45 p.m.
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The Weather Service confirmed a handful of twisters directly and posted pictures of funnel clouds to social media.
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I enjoyed researching this puzzle and learned a lot of (spoiler alert) new tongue twisters along the way.
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The local National Weather Service issued a warning to Miami residents of possible twisters and small marble-sized hail.
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Twisters were most likely to touch down in northern Illinois but were also possible in south Michigan, northern Indiana.
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At least 23 people were killed and several others injured in Alabama, as twisters struck across the Southeast Sunday.
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As parts of the South recover from recent tornadoes, we explore how these twisters spin down from the sky.
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Much like the boss fights, Resident Evil 7's mind-twisters feel like an organic piece of the story.
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Sunlight was shining on the storm and very little rain was falling, providing a clear view of the twisters.
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These mini-twisters are fairly common on the Red Planet and were portrayed with dramatic effect in The Martian.
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Los Pollos Hermanos' Albuquerque location has been replaced by a restaurant named Twisters, which fans will recognize by name.
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At that specific Twisters, on Isleta Boulevard, there's a "Los Pollos Hermanos" mural that's still inside on the wall.
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Weather Tornado Alley lived up to its name yesterday, as five twisters popped up in Texas, Indiana, Kansas and Missouri.
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The National Weather Service reportedly deployed teams on Sunday to assess the damage and measure the strength of the twisters.
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And the National Weather Service says as many as nine twisters might have struck the Midwest and Southeast this week.
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More snowstorms, fewer twisters It hasn't felt like spring for many across the central and northeastern United States this season.
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Like Twisters [Burgers and Burritos], a New Mexico chain that doubles as the flagship location of Gus' fried chicken restaurant.
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Twisters hasn't started selling fried chicken; I was kinda wishing they would but they're an established burrito-and-burger place.
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At least 41 reported twisters ravaged the Southern states over the weekend, killing 19 people and destroying homes, CNN meteorologists reported.
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At least three twisters struck the area, in eastern Alabama near the Georgia border, within a few hours on Sunday afternoon.
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Wedges come from supercell thunderstorm systems, which also produce similar twisters known as stovepipes, ropes, elephant trunks or multi-vortex tornadoes.
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The chase of a lifetime As the supercell moved north toward Dodge City, twisters kept spinning out of the storm clouds.
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Residents have been displaced after the twisters destroyed their homes, and searchers are still picking through the debris for potential victims.
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A witty composition of lively geometrical shapes that turn the Arabic alphabet into a story-like puzzle, Tongue Twisters was awarded for its "original attempt to give visual form to tongue twisters and the difficulty of pronouncing certain words very fast," resulting in "an amusing jumble of the patterns," said the jury in an official statement.
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Below is a guide to all of the proper pronunciations of designer names, from the trickiest tongue twisters to surprisingly simple monikers.
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Or maybe it's because—aside from occasionally horrendous floods—we don't really get tsunamis, twisters, hurricanes, tropical storms, or typhoons in Britain.
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Tongue Twisters, written by Fatima Sharafeddine and illustrated by Hanane Kai, will be sold online via the Kalimat Publishing Group early April.
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"They have been really threading the needle," she said, referring to the propensity of the twisters to strike then lift then strike again.
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Competitors successfully tore through tongue twisters like aichmophobia, a fear of sharp things, and enchytrae, a type of worms used as fish food.
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Bruce CRUSHED it -- nailing ridiculous tongue-twisters from Karolina Kowalkiewicz to Joanna Jedrzejczyk to Khabib Nurmagomedov ... and belting 'em out with extra sauce!!
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The twisters dropped out of the sky nonstop for more than two hours, the 46-year-old storm chaser from Aurora, Colorado, recalled.
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Disaster movies have always been popular, but in the late '90s, there was a conspicuous streak of threatening comets, asteroids, volcanoes and twisters.
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When that's combined with a strong jet stream in the Plains and Midwest, it creates the wind shear needed for twisters to take shape.
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There were at least 30 preliminary reports of tornadoes in the central US on Tuesday, most of the twisters occurring in Kansas and Missouri.
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Now look at those four words at the beginning: How many tongue twisters do you know that revolve around someone selling marine mollusk exoskeletons?
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The threat comes after at least 27 twisters were reported across Texas, Kansas and South Dakota on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
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Storm Chasers was largely filmed in the central United States, in an area known as Tornado Alley, where twisters are most frequent and severe.
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About 22 million people on the East Coast, from North Carolina to New York, are at risk of twisters, high winds and hail. 3.
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Along with twisters in Ohio and scorching heat in the South, the Kansas tornado was part of the severe weather engulfing parts of the country.
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He said if twisters came they would like emerge in parts of Texas and Kansas — the other areas would like see hail and high winds.
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An arctic blast is moving across the eastern two-thirds of the country this week, including the parts of Alabama reeling from the twisters. 3.
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Kenneth King portrays multiple personalities and delivers tongue twisters in "Characters in Limbo," while Alan Good has made a new solo that features Kalliope Piersol.
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The storm unleashed deadly twisters in Mississippi and Georgia over the weekend before turning cooler as it advanced on the Northeast on Monday and into Tuesday.
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Outbreaks of 50 or more tornadoes are not uncommon, having happened 63 times in U.S. history, with three instances of more than 100 twisters, Marsh said.
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The slow movement of the twisters allowed the boldest storm chasers to get close and snap some of the most stunning photographs they had ever captured.
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The deadliest series of twisters to hit the country since 2013 killed 23 people, injured dozens more and devastated small communities in rural Alabama last weekend.
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Winds from the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains come together to create the perfect conditions for making twisters right in the middle of America.
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Chris Cohilas, the chairman of the Dougherty County Commission in southwestern Georgia, said storms slammed his county early this month and these latest twisters compounded the agony.
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Garcia said the previous most-expensive tornado outbreak in Texas came in 2015, when twisters struck the towns of Garland and Rowlett, causing $1.2 billion in losses.
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The destruction in Missouri came as severe weather has ravaged the central United States over the past several days, unleashing twisters, drenching rain, flash flooding and hail.
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Indeed, in the office where I worked in Montgomery, we had psychopharmacologists and neuropsychopharmacologists (try saying those tongue twisters three times in a row) on speed dial.
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His last Times puzzle, back in August, was tongue twisters; today we have phrases that tripped me up in a subtler way but are still very fun.
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While most products on the market do still include chemical tongue-twisters, trust that you can have an effective bronze glow without synthetic, potentially bad-for-you formulas.
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A group of powerful twisters rocked the Dallas suburbs this week, so the midwives moved one mama's birthing to the safest place in the building — the laundry room.
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We see the storefront of Twisters, the actual Mexican fast-food joint where they filmed the scenes set in Los Pollos Hermanos, Gus Fring's restaurant and drug front.
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The jury in Bologna praised Tongue Twisters for its original approach and universal theme; but, in fact, universality is not always mirrored by the children's books published today.
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When capturing the clip, Garner tried her best to spit out several tongue twisters — but she could barely move her mouth because it was numbed during the procedure.
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Order a burrito from the "Pollos Hermanos" Twisters in the South Valley or eat chili dogs at The Dog House or have a delicious breakfast at The Grove.
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A preliminary storm survey from the National Weather Service (NWS) on Wednesday said that two of the twisters hit in Putnam County, while the third was in Orange County.
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Tornadoes are occurring on fewer days per year, but major tornado outbreaks are spawning more EF-1 or greater twisters than used to occur in a typical large event.
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Last month, a storm system that swept across the U.S. Southeast from Mississippi to Washington D.C., spawning a number of twisters, left three people dead along the Gulf Coast.
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The tornado that hit the city was among a flurry of unexpected twisters on Thursday that injured at least 17 people and flattened buildings in Marshalltown, Pella and Bondurant.
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Videos captured "fire twisters" and hellish landscapes southwest of Adelaide on Kangaroo Island, a popular tourist destination where the mayor estimated about 10,000 people were present during the holidays.
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If you've finished watching Stranger Things season 2 and are itching for a new show to satisfy that urge for enigmatic brain twisters, Netflix has just dropped its newest import.
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Dodge City stands out for the high number and variety of uniquely-shaped twisters the chasers saw that day -- and, most importantly, for the fact that no one was killed.
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Images posted on social media showed giant twisters reaching down into residential neighborhoods and at least one waterspout spinning offshore in the beach town of Destin, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon.
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Kim Kardashian filed for trademark protection under her company so Psalm's name can be used for hair accessories, including barrettes, bands, bows, clips, ties, ornaments, pins, scrunchies, chopsticks, twisters and wraps.
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It is a mistake to view gun violence as a natural phenomenon like the twisters that tear across the plains states or the hurricanes sent north and west from the Caribbean.
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But Norman said a combination of sweeping cold fronts and upper level winds in the Northeast can briefly allow for the spin needed to spawn twisters like the ones in Worcester.
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In the video, Garner tries her best to spit out several tongue twisters — but she can barely move her mouth because it was numbed during the the procedure she had done.
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Floodwaters also swept a motorist to his death on Tuesday in Arkansas, while twisters that pulverized buildings in western Ohio on Monday killed one person and injured scores of others, authorities said.
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Besides one EF-4 tornado, storm trackers have confirmed two smaller twisters classified as EF-1, each of which packed winds of up to 110 mph (177 km per hour), according to Darden.
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There were 15 reports of tornadoes from the storms overnight on Tuesday in Texas, with most of the twisters in the Panhandle and western parts of the state, the National Weather Service said.
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A total of 230 twisters were reported Tuesday, the National Weather Service said, including one that traveled around two miles in Pensacola, Florida, smashing into an apartment complex at about 30:26 p.m.
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In the latest storm system, multiple possible tornadoes hit southwest and central Mississippi Thursday night and early Friday, the NWS said, but the damage will have to be surveyed before confirmation of twisters.
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But that measure, which did become law, has proved popular and durable, and the vote — which led to ethics charges against some of the arm-twisters — has largely receded into the history books.
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The latest wave of tornadoes came a day after a spate of twisters pulverized buildings in western Ohio, killing one person, injuring scores and triggering a recovery effort in neighborhoods strewn with wreckage.
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Funnel clouds and twisters swept through Nebraska and Colorado on Monday as several other states in the country's mid-section — including flood-battered Texas — prepared for potentially powerful wind gusts, hail and heavy rain.
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The biggest threat would come at sunset and into the evening with storm chasers being of limited help predicting lead time for any twisters on the ground because of the dark, according to Karins.
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It has been five years since the last sharknado assaulted the planet, thanks to a tech wizard (Tommy Davidson) who figured out how to use nuclear reactors to short-circuit the man-devouring twisters.
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The city, which has been rebuilt following the 2013 tornado, is used to being in the path of twisters: It has been hit by four tornadoes since 1999, and numerous others long before that.
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The Dodge City outbreak had all the ingredients for a cinematic experience: the high cloud base made the tornadoes appear taller, and there was little rain wrapping around them, to obscure the twisters from view.
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Opelika, Alabama (CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday will tour the devastation wrought by a string of deadly tornadoes here, offering his support to Alabamians who lost relatives, homes and livelihoods in the recent twisters.
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But broader reviews have shown no clear relationship to global warming, with the frequency of the destructive categories of twisters in the U.S. unchanged or slightly declining since the 13s, according to federal climate scientists.
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The premise, briefly: The world has been sharknado-free for five years, thanks to a tech wizard (Tommy Davidson) who came up with a way to use small nuclear reactors to short-circuit the deadly twisters.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Violent thunderstorms and tornadoes lashed the U.S. Southeast and mid-Atlantic region on Wednesday, killing at least four people in Virginia a day after twisters claimed three lives along the Gulf Coast, authorities said.
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"We have the most experts in all fields agriculture," Fried said, citing the state's myriad scientists, economists, financial gurus, sellers, buyers, traders and, most importantly, resilient farmers who have weathered hurricanes, superstorms, twisters, droughts, floods and more.
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Puzzle makers and solver are some of the nicest people in the world, and isn't it great that we get to indulge our love of brain twisters and make the world a better place at the same time?
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With books like Tongue Twisters it's also worth considering how diversity can be represented and communicated in visual ways — from dunes, to native fruits, to local garb, the book is a vibrant portrait of the Middle Eastern landscape.
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The only good news: Tornadoes caused by hurricanes "are generally smaller, weaker, and shorter-lived than traditional tornadoes you see across Tornado Alley," the wide stretch of the Midwest and southern Plains that frequently gets pummeled by twisters.
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I thought Ms. Taylor presented quite an artful version of one of the first bits of wordplay we learn in life — I can remember stumbling over simple tongue twisters like "She sells seashells" before I even learned to read.
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On that day, the panoramic skies stretching over the Great Plains just outside of Dodge City, Kansas, became the backdrop for a dazzling tornado outbreak, when a series of supercell thunderstorms produced at least 12 twisters immediately around the city.
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As audience members take their seats, the performers are already engaged in matter-of-fact tasks, dryly reciting trabalenguas (Spanish tongue twisters) and rearranging objects strewn across the space: ladders, stools, laptops, power strips, swaths of pastel and fluorescent fabric.
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As the "twisters" coil and spin, they fill the cavernous space with gentle whooshing sounds, while the large band slowly crumples in on itself, buckling towards the ceiling and straining against gravity before it finally releases, sending out a deafening crash.
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Hail and falling branches caused damage to cars and roofs across portions of the Great Plains, and tornadoes were reported in Kansas and Oklahoma, but the region was spared the destructive twisters that forecasters said could have been spawned by the storm system.
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Songs like "Never Will Come For Us" and "A Dozen Roses" showed Braid's ability to soften their attack, allowing songs a bit more breathing room so Nanna could dash off tongue-twisters without having to spit them out a mile a minute.
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Given how marquee the presentation of Gooigi is within the game, it's actually surprising the amount of times the game goes through long stretches where you basically don't use him; far and away, the duality of Luigi and Gooigi produces the most satisfying brain twisters.
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The sprawling system brought five reported twisters across Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Texas, as well as hail — the largest reportedly the size of a grapefruit — across an arc from the Lone Star State all the way to West Virginia, according to The National Weather Service.
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Parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey also were under tornado warnings hours after a swarm of tightly packed twisters swept through Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes, blowing out windows and ending the school year early for some students because of damage to buildings.
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For one example, Russia and China came to their first border agreements in the early part of the 18th century — but the final settlement was reached only in the late 1990s, with Russian negotiators describing their Chinese counterparts as "tough and unemotional" arm-twisters.
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And while Tongue Twisters was written primarily for an audience in the UAE and Middle East (the nature of the book makes it nearly impossible to translate), the Bologna Fair's recognition of a book like this one could be considered a small step to close the gap.
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Fifty-five at the time of his death, Samaras had in fact answered some previously impossible questions, using probes of his own design — placed in front of twisters at moments of great danger — to glean facts about what happens in the very center of a tornado.
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At least 22 reported tornadoes touched down across the southern Plains and South-Central U.S. on Tuesday, as forecasters alert for more potential twisters in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and parts of Illinois, tearing trees out of the ground, ripping roofs off of homes and knocking down power lines.
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Here are some things to know about twisters in hurricanes: Land-striking hurricanes are conducive to tornadoes ... Nearly all tropical cyclones that hit the United States produce at least one tornado, "provided enough of the ... cyclone's circulation moves over land," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Why?
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A few selections from the official Dad Makeup Dictionary: "Large eyelash of a cow" = fan brush "Sun in a dish" = highlighter "Tangerine" = makeup sponge "Box of chocolates" = eyeshadow palette "Snow" = white eyeshadow "Doo-dik-a-twisters" (sp?) = tweezers To be fair, the sponge does look like a tangerine.
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HOUSTON — Severe thunderstorms struck parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Monday evening, producing short-lived tornadoes — including stunning images of side-by-side twisters in rural Oklahoma — but as of early Tuesday the region appeared to have been largely spared from violent weather that had been feared by forecasters.
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In some respects, it was only a matter of time before the incentives involved in storm chasing, such as the desire for close-up video footage of massive twisters, the scientific need to observe these storms as closely as possible, and the traffic congestion on big chase days, resulted in tragedy.
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Here are some things to know about twisters in hurricanes: Hurricanes with circulation over land are conducive to tornadoes ... Nearly all tropical cyclones that reach the United States produce at least one tornado, "provided enough of the ... cyclone's circulation moves over land," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says. Why?
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Darden said the latest twisters, which are common to the Gulf Coast region this time of year, grew out of a larger storm system that swept out of the Plains to bring thunderstorms to the Deep South and a wintry mix of precipitation to the Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic region and Northeast.
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Here is an excerpt from their conversation: MICHAEL WINES: Kansans and Oklahomans like to say they are cool in the face of nature's wrath — twisters put quakes to shame, some have bragged to me — but the truth is that the last few years of shaking there has a lot of people rattled, so to speak.
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Both split the difference between unhinged verbal invention and nondescript corporate product, depending on the degree of wit they bring to the studio on any given day; with Wayne especially the excitement lies in his puns, his double entendres, his tongue-twisters, the way he punctuates his lines with chuckles and comments on his own performance.
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Kalimat is also the publisher of a picture book of Arabic tongue twisters illustrated by the 30-year-old Lebanese artist Hanane Kai (the title translates roughly as "Your Tongue Is Your Horse, Your Tongue Is Your Protector") that won this year's BolognaRagazzi Award in the New Horizons category, which honors innovative picture books from countries where children's publishing is still developing.
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It's a pattern that seems to play out repeatedly in his career as described by those who have known Simon — according to one of the legendary Muscle Shoals session musicians, he promises them royalties on 1973's "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" album, but they never see the money; he borrows a tape of South African music from a musician acquaintance, then, she says, blows her off and turns her idea to use the irresistible rhythms into the basis for the "Graceland" album — only to record two songs for the project that Los Lobos and Rockin' Dopsie and the Twisters say were largely created by them without giving them songwriting credit or revenue.
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