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  • Every year or two, a hurricane or even just a foul-tempered nor-easter washes a few dozen or hundreds of these into the ocean, plopping many thousands of pounds of vinyl siding and treated wood into the oceans and estuaries where our seafood comes from.

    Rebekah and Stephen Hren: Gustav Threatens Not Just New Orleans 2008

  • For all the weather-blather about the nor-easter pummeling New England, I look out the window and see gray skies and brown lawns.

    No snow jhetley 2006

  • First, the weather wasn't going to cooperate-all day, the radio had been warning of the big nor-easter heading this way-and she wasn't looking forward to the possibility of losing power or having to hole up inside for a couple of days.

    Nights in Rodanthe Sparks, Nicholas 2002

  • What happened next was like an unexpected nor-easter: The Reverend Marsh's complacent demeanor was swept away only to be replaced with a cold fury so intense that it was easy to imagine him hurling damnation from a pulpit.

    Salem Falls Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2001

  • That day, however, as if God was involved, a nor-easter was predicted.

    Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992

  • Mr Walker says what the region needs is a good nor-easter.

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2010

  • Mr Walker says what the region needs is a good nor-easter.

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2010

  • Mr Walker says what the region needs is a good nor-easter.

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2010

  • Though any rain is welcome, he says it will take several days of sustained rain to alleviate the drought and what the region needs is a good nor-easter.

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2010

  • Though any rain is welcome, he says it will take several days of sustained rain to alleviate the drought and what the region needs is a good nor-easter.

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2010

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