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  2. What is a derecho and why is it so destructive? - AOL

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    A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe ...

  3. Derecho - Wikipedia

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    The Utah-Wyoming derecho of 31 May 1994 was an event of this type. It produced a 45 m/s (90 kn) wind gust at Provo, Utah, where sixteen people were injured, and removed part of the roof of the Saltair Pavilion on the Great Salt Lake. Surface dew points along the path of the derecho were about 7–11 °C (45–50 °F). [16]

  4. It's been 10 years since a destructive derecho tore ... - AOL

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    June 29, 2012, is a difficult day for those in and around Washington, D.C., to forget. On that day, an intense line of extremely gusty thunderstorms taught millions of people a new word: derecho.

  5. EXPLAINER: What is a derecho? - AOL

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    Multiple tornadoes and thunderstorms that struck the Great Plains and upper Midwest on Dec. 15 were the result of a rare event called a derecho, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm ...

  6. List of derecho events - Wikipedia

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    People Chaser Derecho: May 27–28, 2001: Affected Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas on the evening of May 27 into May 28. The strongest winds reached 100 mph (160 km/h) near Garden City, Kansas. One fatality and four injuries, alongside over 150,000 power outages in Oklahoma. [14] 2001 Central Wisconsin derecho: June 11, 2001: aka the "Oshkosh ...

  7. Right to be forgotten - Wikipedia

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    The right to be forgotten (RTBF [1]) is the right to have private information about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories in some circumstances. . The issue has arisen from desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the pa

  8. Did Tuesday's storms cause a derecho in Iowa? See the ... - AOL

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    While Tuesday's storm was not a derecho, Iowa did experience one in July. Iowa last saw a derecho on July 15, and that storm produced an EF1 tornado that hit the northwest side of the metro ...

  9. Right to work - Wikipedia

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    The right to work is the concept that people have a human right to work, or to engage in productive employment, and should not be prevented from doing so.The right to work, enshrined in the United Nations 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is recognized in international human-rights law through its inclusion in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ...