What is "cloudbursts"

Usage examples of "cloudbursts".

It also began with loud smelly farts, with bad breaths, with ragged nerves, with epilepsy, with meningitis, with low wages, with back pay that was overdue, with worn-out shoes, with corns and bunions, with flat feet and broken arches, with pocket books missing and fountain pens lost or stolen, with telegrams floating in the sewer, with threats from the vice-president and advice from the managers, with wrangles and disputes, with cloudbursts and broken telegraph wires, with new methods of efficiency and old ones that had been discarded, with hope for better times and a prayer for the bonus which never came.

Only so had it been possible for the partners to do much work, interrupted as they often were by tropical cloudbursts, when for hours the whole plateau would become a lake.

There was no way she could maintain that pace and try to talk to him at the same time, so theyd walked in silence for hours, stopping only during the sudden occasional cloudbursts, when the rain got too heavy to see their feet, or when the helo passed overhead.

This one was less furious than the cloudbursts theyd endured throughout the day, but probably wouldnt be over as quickly, either.

Lampedusa had found a craggy little canyon with lots of twists and turns and places where the cloudbursts had sent torrents down the place, carving out holes, sharp edges, and sinks.

We've been needing a good, steady downpour for most of the summer, but all we get are cloudbursts, gusting in and drifting off, curtains of rain that burn away, leaving nothing changed.

People talk about cloudbursts as they hurry to and from their cars, about how we could really use a good, hard, soaking rain.

Even now, at twenty-seven, she sometimes had a hard time finding the way home after seasonal cloudbursts washed out the tracks of previous vehicles.