The hurricane tore two barges from their moorings in Tampa Bay and blew them into Gandy Bridge, leaving the bridge with some damage.

Once when I was a small boy in Massachusetts, a hurricane tore across the land.

We build back the part of the house the hurricane tore away.

The hurricane destroyed most houses on the island, tore boats from their docks and knocked out all power and telephones.

The hurricanes tore open a new skylight in the Crowne Plaza Tower and reduced the Holiday Inn to a disaster area.

"If we wait another half hour the hurricane will tear us to pieces."

The 1938 hurricane, which took forecasters and residents by surprise, devastated eastern Long Island and then tore into New England, leaving nearly 700 dead in its wake.

Every time a hurricane tore through, it rearranged the landscape pretty drastically.

Sometimes, after a hurricane tore through, not much landscape-or land-was left in its path.

Mrs. Lunenfeld and her husband fled to a shelter after the hurricane tore open their mobile home.