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Guinea grass grows six inches a day in optimal conditions and a six-foot tall patch of grass can throw 20-foot flame lengths, so what we have here are really fast-moving, very hot, very dangerous fires. – Michael Walker	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These rioters were organized. They were ready for a fight... they came close to succeeding, it's frightening to think about how close we were. A few inches of wood and glass. An officer turning left instead of turning right. – Bennie Thompson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I’ll never let any man talk to me like that. I’m not scared of anyone. Hitters get on first base and do the macarena when they get a broken-bat single. I don’t say anything. If he has a problem with it, I’m right here. I’m 60 feet, 6 inches away. – John Nogowski	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We know it's not good to have goldfish in Keller Lake, but in some situations, goldfish can be in a lake and not be causing a lot of severe problems, but in the right lake in the right conditions they can cause a lot of problems, so we're still in the process of trying to figure out what our situation is at Keller Lake. The goldfish ranged in size from about 12 to 15 inches in length and the largest weighed four pounds. {. – Caleb Ashling	Found on CNN 3 years ago
With the big ice sheet on Antarctica like we have today, the predominant winds are known as katabatic winds, and these go from the land to the sea, they originate from the ice sheet where it is very high, very cold and very dry -- in fact Antarctica receives only a few inches of snowfall a year and is so dry it is classified as a desert. – Catherine Bradshaw	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They were about four and a half, five feet long and then the full width of the floor joist, so about 18 inches wide and 12 to 15 inches deep. So that was a big space they were in, they were doing really well. – Bobby Chaisson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s interesting -- when it came to coming together to impeach Donald Trump for the second time after he was out of office, they put 100 senators in the same room sitting just inches apart for hours at a time over five or six days, apparently COVID was not an issue then. But now, of course, for something like this we can't have that many people in the room sitting next to each other. So it’s kind of silly season here. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The asteroid will be brightest while it moves through southern skies, amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere and at low northern latitudes should be able to see this asteroid using moderate size telescopes with apertures of at least 8 inches in the nights leading up to closest approach, but they will probably need star charts to find it. – Paul Chodas	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s a widespread area with 10 to 20 inches of snow coming, the sweet spot looks like it will be right around New York City. – Brian Hurley	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
As far as making up the deficit in Milwaukee, a few inches are possible Saturday night and Sunday morning, monday's system may also bring some snow, though for now it appears that the heavier amounts will be closer to the Chicago area. At this point, we will likely need multiple systems in fairly short order to make up the difference. – Andy Boxell	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Although Missouri is known for producing some large-antlered bucks, deer that score over 200 inches are not common in our state or anywhere in the country for that matter, a 200-plus-inch whitetail is a tremendous deer and a very unique animal. – Jason Isabell	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We went out and harpooned him... and we didn't realize — we knew he was big, but not as big as when we pulled him up that bank. Across the top of his head was 16 inches wide. – Corey Capps	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is the smaller businesses that needed to be at the front of the aid line, in the best of times, smaller businesses are fragile. In our industry, especially, we can be inches from closing our doors. – Mark Elliott	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're much safer than a Walmart or grocery store, think about it, you're crammed into (store) aisles inches apart from other shoppers. Here we're sitting six feet apart. – Dean Broyles	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The potential exists for 4 to 8 inches of snow for some of these areas by Wednesday night, lighter snow is expected farther north across the southern Great Lakes and into New England, and some freezing rain is likely across parts of the Ohio Valley and into Pennsylvania. – The NWS	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We're expecting some heavy snow from around Lake Erie into western New York and northern New England, where they could see between 6 and 12 inches, this is their first significant winter storm of the season. – Alex Lamers	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We also saw golfball- and baseball-sized hail in some areas and a narrow swath of north Dallas that got between 1 to 3 inches of rain. – David Roth	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It was exactly one tornado that hit at 9:02 p.m., we also saw golfball- and baseball-sized hail in some areas and a narrow swath of north Dallas that got between 1 to 3 inches of rain. – David Roth	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I didn't have time to do anything, i did try to pull him( Oswald) behind me. I had him by the belt as well. I turned to him and instead of pulling him behind me, I turned his body. Instead of that bullet hitting him dead center, it hit about 4 inches to the left of the navel. – Taimi Leavelle for 73 years	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We had federal employees who were present, who although they were not hit by the rounds fired, by the grace of God. Had the bullets gone 2 inches in another direction, we could be here today talking about the murder of a federal official. – Christopher Combs	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Overtopping is not the biggest concern, the biggest concern is 10 to 20 inches of rainfall. – Jeff Graschel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
That means this additional rain, where youve seen a couple of inches of the past couple of hours, theres nowhere for it to go. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
While the deep water cyclecan effectivelychange sea level over hundreds of millions to billions of years, climate change can change the sea level in zero to 100 years, for comparison, the present-day sea level rise associated with climate change is about 0.1 inches (3.2 millimeters) a year. The sea level drop associated with the deep water cycle is about 1/10,000 of that. – Krister Karlsen	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Some of the rainfall was outlandishly fast, several of our reliable rain-spotters reported seeing multiple inches of rain in under an hour. That much water in a short time just accelerates the amount of damage that can happen. – Patrick Burke	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

Guinea grass grows six inches a day in optimal conditions and a six-foot tall patch of grass can throw 20-foot flame lengths, so what we have here are really fast-moving, very hot, very dangerous fires.

– Michael Walker

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

These rioters were organized. They were ready for a fight... they came close to succeeding, it's frightening to think about how close we were. A few inches of wood and glass. An officer turning left instead of turning right.

– Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I’ll never let any man talk to me like that. I’m not scared of anyone. Hitters get on first base and do the macarena when they get a broken-bat single. I don’t say anything. If he has a problem with it, I’m right here. I’m 60 feet, 6 inches away.

– John Nogowski

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We know it's not good to have goldfish in Keller Lake, but in some situations, goldfish can be in a lake and not be causing a lot of severe problems, but in the right lake in the right conditions they can cause a lot of problems, so we're still in the process of trying to figure out what our situation is at Keller Lake. The goldfish ranged in size from about 12 to 15 inches in length and the largest weighed four pounds. {.

– Caleb Ashling

Found on CNN
3 years ago

With the big ice sheet on Antarctica like we have today, the predominant winds are known as katabatic winds, and these go from the land to the sea, they originate from the ice sheet where it is very high, very cold and very dry -- in fact Antarctica receives only a few inches of snowfall a year and is so dry it is classified as a desert.

– Catherine Bradshaw

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They were about four and a half, five feet long and then the full width of the floor joist, so about 18 inches wide and 12 to 15 inches deep. So that was a big space they were in, they were doing really well.

– Bobby Chaisson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It’s interesting -- when it came to coming together to impeach Donald Trump for the second time after he was out of office, they put 100 senators in the same room sitting just inches apart for hours at a time over five or six days, apparently COVID was not an issue then. But now, of course, for something like this we can't have that many people in the room sitting next to each other. So it’s kind of silly season here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The asteroid will be brightest while it moves through southern skies, amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere and at low northern latitudes should be able to see this asteroid using moderate size telescopes with apertures of at least 8 inches in the nights leading up to closest approach, but they will probably need star charts to find it.

– Paul Chodas

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It’s a widespread area with 10 to 20 inches of snow coming, the sweet spot looks like it will be right around New York City.

– Brian Hurley

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

As far as making up the deficit in Milwaukee, a few inches are possible Saturday night and Sunday morning, monday's system may also bring some snow, though for now it appears that the heavier amounts will be closer to the Chicago area. At this point, we will likely need multiple systems in fairly short order to make up the difference.

– Andy Boxell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Although Missouri is known for producing some large-antlered bucks, deer that score over 200 inches are not common in our state or anywhere in the country for that matter, a 200-plus-inch whitetail is a tremendous deer and a very unique animal.

– Jason Isabell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We went out and harpooned him... and we didn't realize — we knew he was big, but not as big as when we pulled him up that bank. Across the top of his head was 16 inches wide.

– Corey Capps

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is the smaller businesses that needed to be at the front of the aid line, in the best of times, smaller businesses are fragile. In our industry, especially, we can be inches from closing our doors.

– Mark Elliott

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're much safer than a Walmart or grocery store, think about it, you're crammed into (store) aisles inches apart from other shoppers. Here we're sitting six feet apart.

– Dean Broyles

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The potential exists for 4 to 8 inches of snow for some of these areas by Wednesday night, lighter snow is expected farther north across the southern Great Lakes and into New England, and some freezing rain is likely across parts of the Ohio Valley and into Pennsylvania.

– The NWS

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We're expecting some heavy snow from around Lake Erie into western New York and northern New England, where they could see between 6 and 12 inches, this is their first significant winter storm of the season.

– Alex Lamers

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We also saw golfball- and baseball-sized hail in some areas and a narrow swath of north Dallas that got between 1 to 3 inches of rain.

– David Roth

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It was exactly one tornado that hit at 9:02 p.m., we also saw golfball- and baseball-sized hail in some areas and a narrow swath of north Dallas that got between 1 to 3 inches of rain.

– David Roth

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I didn't have time to do anything, i did try to pull him( Oswald) behind me. I had him by the belt as well. I turned to him and instead of pulling him behind me, I turned his body. Instead of that bullet hitting him dead center, it hit about 4 inches to the left of the navel.

– Taimi Leavelle for 73 years

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We had federal employees who were present, who although they were not hit by the rounds fired, by the grace of God. Had the bullets gone 2 inches in another direction, we could be here today talking about the murder of a federal official.

– Christopher Combs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Overtopping is not the biggest concern, the biggest concern is 10 to 20 inches of rainfall.

– Jeff Graschel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

That means this additional rain, where youve seen a couple of inches of the past couple of hours, theres nowhere for it to go.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

While the deep water cyclecan effectivelychange sea level over hundreds of millions to billions of years, climate change can change the sea level in zero to 100 years, for comparison, the present-day sea level rise associated with climate change is about 0.1 inches (3.2 millimeters) a year. The sea level drop associated with the deep water cycle is about 1/10,000 of that.

– Krister Karlsen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Some of the rainfall was outlandishly fast, several of our reliable rain-spotters reported seeing multiple inches of rain in under an hour. That much water in a short time just accelerates the amount of damage that can happen.

– Patrick Burke

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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