In the mid-nineteenth century, the German geologist, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, named the trade and communication network Die Seidenstrasse (the Silk Road), and the term, also used in the plural, continues to stir imaginations with its evocative mystery.
Hurricane Emily (1993) Hurricane Emily in 1993 caused record flooding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina while remaining just offshore. The fifth named storm and first hurricane of the year's hurricane season, Emily developed from a tropical wave northeast of the Lesser Antilles on August 22. It moved northwestward and strengthened into a tropical storm on August 25, after becoming nearly stationary southeast of Bermuda.
Severe thunderstorm causes serious damage, thousands without power. WOODBURY -- Tuesday evening's thunderstorm might have been brief, but it was long enough to wreak havoc on many areas in South Jersey -- including overturning a vehicle near the Deptford Mall and ripping a huge tree from the front yard of a home in Gloucester Township.