The wind rose to gusts of 83 miles an hour while she was moored at the mast, and pressure on the nose was recorded as 15½ tons.
While they can neutralise or diminish short gusts of speculation or even tip the balance when the market is near the turn, they are no answer to a prolonged gale.
The vehicle and spillage was cleared by early afternoon, but with winds gusting to 70 knots, it was not considered safe to reopen the crossing until 4.50 pm.
The maximum steady wind has been about 50 miles an hour, or half the designed wind load and that even gusts have never reached 100 miles an hour.
Surely we cannot get over the difficulty by saying that prisoners who are really like wild beasts—morose, and subject to gusts of passion—are abnormal and ought to be certified insane.
After all, windows can be damaged in all sorts of circumstances, even by strong gusts of wind.
One gets these sudden gusts of intellectual opinion sweeping through society.
There were gusts of laughter at the apparently ridiculous nature of the suggestion which he made.
