Affected neighborhoods were being evacuated. According to the announcement, at 72 hours into the storm, the Lake Conroe watershed has received an average of 18 in. of rainfall, which has caused the lake water level to rise over 4.25 ft above normal pool elevation.
7. segway. To seamlessly transition from one part of a conversation to the next as if you were riding on a Segway scooter between the two points. The speaker finished talking about his 2nd Impress slide, rode a Segway scooter to the opposite end of the stage, and then began his segway into the 3rd Impress slide.
I grabbed this one because I figured it would be a quick and easy answer. I figured wrong. My usual word and phrase origin sources all came up dry on jaywalking - except for Old Faithful, the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED gives this definition for jaywalking: A pedestrian who crosses the street without regard to traffic regulations.. It gives this cite from the June, 1927 edition of Harper's: the Bostonian ... has reduced 'a pedestrian who crosses streets in disregard of traffic signals' to the compact 'jaywalking.'.