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Storm door, Japan. A storm door is a type of door that is installed in front of an exterior access door to protect it from bad weather and allow ventilation.Storm doors generally have interchangeable glass panels and window screen panels to provide visibility and prevent flying insects from entering the home.
A door closer is a mechanical device that regulates the speed and action of a door’s swing. [1] Manual closers store the force used to open the door in some type of spring and reuse it to close the door. Automatic types use electricity to regulate door swing behavior. Door closers can be linked to a building's fire and security alarm systems. [2]
Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of mostly historical nonfiction books. His books include Isaac's Storm (1999), The Devil in the White City (2003), [ 1 ] In the Garden of Beasts (2011), and Dead Wake (2015).
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A typical manifestation would be the dip, or intermittent black-out, of domestic lighting during an electrical storm. Autorecloser action may result in electronic devices losing time settings, losing data in volatile memory, halting, restarting, or suffering damage due to power interruption.
Isaac Monroe Cline (1861–1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the U.S. Weather Bureau from 1889 to 1901. Cline played an important role in influencing the storm's later destruction by authoring an article for the Galveston Daily News, in which he derided the idea of significant damage to Galveston from a hurricane as "a crazy idea".
Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun is a 1995 non-fiction book by American author Erik Larson.Through the lens of a 1988 school shooting in Virginia Beach, the author explores America's gun culture and the ease in acquiring such weapons as the one used by the school shooter, the MAC-11.
John Reichart decided to go "all in" this year by decorating every house on his block with Christmas lights for his wife who has Alzheimer's.