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unusual facts about tides



1869 Saxby Gale

The storm was named for Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby, a naval instructor and amateur astronomer who, based on his astronomical studies, had predicted extremely high tides in the North Atlantic Ocean on October 1, 1869, which would produce storm surges in the event of a storm.

1947 Atlantic hurricane season

In Charleston, South Carolina, the high tides caused minor beach erosion and isolated street flooding, and one person was killed there by a falling tree.

1977 Atlantic hurricane season

Numerous coastal highways in Texas, including portions of State Highway 87, were closed due to above normal tides.

Best of The Outlaws: Green Grass and High Tides

The Best of the Outlaws: Green Grass and High Tides is a sixteen track compilation album by American southern rock band Outlaws, released in 1996 featuring all their major hits, including the Rock Band-featured southern rock epic "Green Grass and High Tides."

Changing Tides

Changing Tides (Portuguese: Mau Tempo, Marés e Mudança - 1976) is a Portuguese feature-length film by Ricardo Costa, his first docufiction, preceding Bread and Wine (1981) and Mists (2003).

Chester Weir

It prevents tidal water ingress up-river for all but the highest tides; it provides the water head for an abstraction immediately behind the weir and it holds back what is a long linear lake which enables that largest abstraction to be taken at Huntington for the North West Water supply to the Wirral and surrounding areas.

Chhera Island

Chhera island (Bengali: Chhera Dwip), also called Cheradia Island or Cheridia Island, is an extension of St. Martin's Island but divided by sea during tides.

Daufuskie Island

The 1988 Jimmy Buffett song, "The Prince Of Tides" laments the urbanization of the island and loss of the Gullah.

Demetrio Albertini

In the quarter-final clash, Zidane-led France managed to overcome the masters of insurmountable defence only by penalties, during which Albertini's surprising failure did induce the tides to turn against Squadra Azzurra.

Ebb Tide

Nino and the Ebb Tides, a doo-wop group from New York, also known as The Ebb Tides.

Giant clam

Richard D. Braley of the University of New South Wales School of Zoology observed that spawning seems to coincide with incoming tides near the second (full), third, and fourth (new) quarters of the moon phase.

High Tide in Tucson

The book is titled after the first essay, in which she realizes that a hermit crab she accidentally brought home while beachcombing still times its activity to the rise and fall of the tides, even in an aquarium in Tucson, Arizona where there are no oceans or tides for hundreds of miles.

Hollingstedt

North Sea tides reached as far as Hollingstedt, so larger vessels were able to navigate the river, until a dam at Koldenbüttel closed off the Treene in 1570.

Jamil Canal

However, the Tides folded at the end of the season and Canal moved back to New York where he spent the 1977 season as the backup to Keith Van Eron.

Jaymay

In 2010, it was announced she would provide guest vocals on art-metal band Goes Cube's second full-length studio album, In Tides And Drifts.

Lease

In New Zealand you may have to specifically endorse a promise that the car will not be driven onto Ninety-Mile Beach (because of the hazardous tides).

Met Park

This often proved distracting to fans and players when aircraft flew overhead, but inadvertently proved strategic - as the AAA franchise of the New York Mets, players for the Tides could hope to someday be called to play in Shea Stadium, the location of which endures similar noise from nearby LaGuardia Airport.

Mihir Sen

Ignoring high tides and shark-infested waters, he swam across the Palk Straits in April 5–6, between Ceylon and Dhanushkodi in 25 hours and 36 minutes.

Miss May I

This demo contained 6 tracks, including "Architect" and "Tides", which would later on be featured in their first full-length album, Apologies Are for the Weak in 2009.

Ocean color

Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting System: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting System utilizes ocean colour data in conjunction with meteorological data and field sampling to forecast the development and movement of harmful algal blooms (commonly referred to as "red tides") in the Gulf of Mexico.

One for the Man Over There

The Tides won the 2006 ATL's Rock School event, and after headed off to Windmill Lane in Dublin to record their new album.

Phantom Below

Phantom Below (also known as Tides of War and USS Poseidon: Phantom Below) is the first film released by Hawaii-based studio Pacific Films.

Physical oceanography

Tidal resonance occurs in the Bay of Fundy since the time it takes for a large wave to travel from the mouth of the bay to the opposite end, then reflect and travel back to the mouth of the bay coincides with the tidal rhythm producing the world's highest tides.

Richmond Lock and Footbridge

When the old London Bridge was demolished in 1832, the removal of the palisades, constructed to protect the bridge, resulted in the tides on the Thames rising and falling far more rapidly than they had done.

Rivers and Tides

Rivers and Tides is a 2001 documentary directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates intricate and ephemeral sculptures from natural materials such as rocks, leaves, flowers, and icicles.

ROMA Design Group

Since the 1950s ROMA Design Group has become known for a wide variety of architecture projects, including San Francisco's Cathedral School, the Bahrain's U.S. Embassy in Manama, the Domaine Chandon Winery in Yountville, California, Oregon's Sun River Resort, and the Inn at the Tides in Bodega Bay.

Stations of the Tide

Stations of the Tide is the story of a bureaucrat with the Department of Technology Transfer who must descend to the surface of Miranda to hunt a magician who has smuggled proscribed technology past the orbital embargo, and bring him to justice before the world is transformed by the flood of the Jubilee Tides.

Tides of Flame

Tides of Flame regularly re-printed communiques claiming responsibility for property destruction taking place in the Puget Sound region.

Volcano

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active object in the solar system because of tidal interaction with Jupiter.

Water supply and sanitation in Gibraltar

A 17th-century Spanish writer, Alonso Hernández del Portillo, asserts that "the city contained many tides and fountains of very sweet and healthy water" and that "fountains of fresh water could be seen spouting out of the sea near the foot of the Rock", possibly referring to a spring at a fault called the Orillon (at the site of the later Orillon Batteries) in the north-west face of the Rock.


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