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.
Superstorm sandy, hurricane katrina. Overnight, supertyphoon haiyan slammed into the philippines, forcing more than 150,000 families, that's 750,000 individuals, to evacuate, leaving countless stranded throughout the country's more than 7,000 small islands. Wind gusts up to 235 miles per hour, roughly the top speed of a formula one racer.