What is "landspouts"

Usage examples of "landspouts".

Back to the time when purple landspouts raged the high plains, back to the time when boulders fell like rain, and when the devil kids were the only beings who dared to run the hillocks outside the shambletowns.

Nor did the purple furies of the landspouts usually penetrate into the hills and gullies.

When I was not dodging the landspouts, or the ice rains, or the rivers of death, I was dodging the shambletowners and their slings.

The Denv ruins were one of the few clusters left on the Noram continent, protected from the worst of the landspouts by the natural depression in which the old city had been built, and by the closeness of the foothills and the mountains behind.

Under the stone jumble, this time Gerswin thought he could detect a squarish pattern of sorts, although when he had first surveyed Washton, he had found it difficult tQ match the tapes with the devastation that time and thy landspouts had wrought.

The landspouts had scoured everything clean except the foundation outlines and dumped the stone and iron into a twisted heap at the eastern end of the unnaturally flattened hilltop.

Sides, don't want to end up scrapped by the landspouts," observed the pilot as he began the rotor retraction sequence.

From his dress, the man was a retired tech, one of the few who had elected to remain once their obligations had expired, despite the landspouts and the cold.

The landspouts were less frequent in the reclaimed areas around the base.

But he ran, stretching out his strides into the effortless and ground-covering lope of a devilkid ahead of the she-coyotes, racing the landspouts and the terrors of Old Earth.