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.
April 30, 2011, 5:25:38 AM EDT. The high-powered severe weather outbreak that claimed over two hundred lives across the South on Wednesday is finishing up its ugly business along the Atlantic Seaboard today. While not likely to have the same ferocity of the storms over the middle of the nation in recent days, today's weather in the East has the potential to do far more than cause travel delays and foil outdoor activities.