An early storm had filled the rain barrels, providing a wonderful bath.

Wind's generally light and favorable this time of year, but if we get an early storm, we'll have to tie up.

He said the state is now in a weather pattern begun with the early storm the first week of December.

With the costs of cleaning up from earlier storms, the city was in the red, he said.

Three of the houses had been condemned because of heavy damage from earlier storms.

Their upper branches had been stripped away in earlier storms.

But the visitors, who have seen their promotion challenge falter with only one point from the last three games, survived the early storm.

Private contractors refused to work because the city still owed them money from earlier storms.

The talk became general, of fire-fighting, of the season and the early storms.

By 1938, most of the earlier storms were hardly remembered.