1 Often identified by its operating system, e.g.  2 Unix box  or Windows box 3  .. We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe. 4  See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
The International Space Station captured images of Hurricane Harvey as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico on August 24th, 2017. â¢ Hurricane Harvey, powered by the Gulf of Mexicoâs warm waters and poised to strike the United States as a major hurricane, swept toward Texas on Friday.
Harvey started as a typical weak August tropical storm that affected the Lesser Antilles and dissipated over the central Caribbean Sea. However, after re -forming over the Bay of Campeche, Harvey rapidly intensified into a category 4 hurricane - (on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) before making landfall along the middle Texas coast. The storm then stalled, with its center over or near the Teas coast for x four days, dropping historic amounts of rainfall of more than 60 inches over southeastern Texas. These rains caused catastrophic flooding, and Harvey is the second-most costly hurricane in U.S. history, after accounting for inflation, behind only Katrina (2005). At least 68 people died