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When Hurricane Gustav struck the Gulf Coast in 2008, leaving more than 100,000 Louisiana customers without power for over a week, Entergy’s grid was in shambles.
ENTERGY RESISTED UPGRADING NEW ORLEANS’ POWER GRID. WHEN IDA HIT, RESIDENTS PAID THE PRICE.BY MAX BLAU AND ANNIE WALDMAN, PROPUBLICA, AND TEGAN WENDLAND, WWNO/NPR; PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATHLEEN FLYNN, SPECIAL TO PROPUBLICASEPTEMBER 22, 2021PROPUBLICA
At least 21 people are dead, hundreds of homes are in shambles and the wreckage of people’s lives is strewn across the landscape.
TENNESSEE FLOODS SHOW A PRESSING CLIMATE DANGER ACROSS AMERICA: ‘WALLS OF WATER’SARAH KAPLANAUGUST 24, 2021WASHINGTON POST
My supposition is that North Korea does not want to be 90% dependent upon China for its economy, which is currently in a shambles under those circumstances, and is seeking a different kind of independence.
'THIS IS A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY.' RET. GENERAL VINCENT K. BROOKS ON WHY THINGS MIGHT BE MOVING AGAIN WITH NORTH KOREACHARLIE CAMPBELL / SHANGHAIJUNE 24, 2021TIME
With his emotional life in shambles, Pauli took up drinking and smoking heavily.
THE SYNCHRONICITY OF WOLFGANG PAULI AND CARL JUNG - ISSUE 93: FORERUNNERSPAUL HALPERNNOVEMBER 18, 2020NAUTILUS
The resulting chaos has left nearly 200,000 Americans dead and the economy in shambles.
VOTE FOR BIDEN (DUH)KEVIN NAFFSEPTEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
The deck of the Frenchman was truly a shamble; not a spot appeared free from some dead or wounded occupant.
HURRICANE HURRYW.H.G. KINGSTON
The men were past revolt now, they could only shamble dizzily about.
BEGGARS ON HORSEBACKF. TENNYSON JESSE
They could not walk, they could only shamble; they could not laugh, they could only leer.
THE PROFITS OF RELIGION, FIFTH EDITIONUPTON SINCLAIR
His knees still knocked together in a loathsome paralysis, but he made effort to shamble forward.
THE AIR PIRATECYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER GULL
It is called Shamble Oak because a butcher once used its hollow trunk to conceal stolen sheep.
ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPEHEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SHAMBLE

  • charged
  • cumbered
  • encumbered
  • imposed upon
  • laded
  • landed
  • loaded
  • saddled
  • taxed
  • weighed
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