So the easterly storm had hit them.
What they do not want is an easterly storm like the one that broke the road in 2001.
"No, thank you, tramps in an easterly storm don't strike me as amusing."
Hepzibah now noticed that Clifford had on a cloak,--a garment of long ago,--in which he had constantly muffled himself during these days of easterly storm.
A strong easterly storm took the fleet by surprise, so Mendoza decided to take cover in La Herradura Bay.
This harbor is a natural bay (thus providing protection from easterly or westerly storms) and sheltered on the north by Grand Island.
The main beach is sandy and normally sheltered but an easterly storm will bring up masses of seaweed which occasionally has to be carted away.
They said it would be worse on the plains, for it was an easterly storm; but as I was so used to riding, I could get on, so we started at 2:30.
THE SCOWL AND THE SMILE Phoebe's absence coincides with an easterly storm, and for days the house is filled with gloom.
Reise's inn trembled in similar fashion during the worst of winter's easterly storms.