Barack Obama

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

American President

Michelle Obama

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

American First Lady

James Belushi

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.

American Actor

Chelsea Cain

People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.

American Novelist

Roseanne Barr

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

American Actress

Seamus Heaney

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

Irish Poet

John Muir

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

American Environmentalist

Shakira

You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

Musician

Vernor Vinge

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

American Writer

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Polish Poet

Refers to a sudden, catastrophic event involving nature.

Natural Disaster

Stresses the sudden and often unexpected nature of this event.

Unpredictable Danger

Emphasizes the speed and force of the falling mass.

Rapid Descent

Used to describe an overwhelming amount of non-physical things.

Metaphorical Use

Conveys a sense of being suddenly overwhelmed by something.

Feeling Overwhelmed

Specifically used in scientific contexts to describe a chain reaction.

Technical Term

Highlights the process of one event causing many similar events.

Chain Reaction

In verb form, it emphasizes the quick and uncontrolled movement.

Sudden Movement

Describes an overwhelming number of items or incidents happening at once.

Influx of Things

 challenging them and saying were they really serious about this. And in doing so, I managed to kick a very small rock off a very big hill that turned into an avalanche that I found myself tumbling in the middle of. Because you see, a few hours later, Elon tweeted me back and said that they were deadly serious, that within a hundred days of contract signing,

How you can use impostor...

 want to do the right thing just like somebody in a city would check the traffic conditions before they go out on the road or skiers would check the avalanche conditions before they go skiing we will have resources available to educate people in terms of where they should and shouldn't be recreative based on wildlife sensitivities so that people

People and Bears Live in...

 felt like being a female in the mountains is different than being a male in the mountains and maybe we should start like an all-women's a vilage clinic I think it's super important to be an amount of other women and I think all sometimes we're normally outnumbered right when you start learning about avalanche awareness it's like oh this is

She's a Big Mountain...

 within eight minutes they had located me and I was blue and unbreathing things can quickly turn serious when you need help on the mountain but you improve your chances by wearing an avalanche homing device or by having a computer

Ski Patrol PIPE National...

 I'd come home and we'd gloss over everything and there's this event, this avalanche, going back to it started to appear as the event that sparked this great divide in my life, because it had shot me in one direction upwards.

After the Avalanche:...

 It came out of nowhere. When you're caught in an avalanche, it's terrifying. FRANCESCA Most avalanche deaths are caused by suffocating under deep drifts or from the blunt force trauma inflicted

Snowflake Science to...

 two were caught in an avalanche in Washington State my colleagues when my colleagues and I wanted to create a unique kind of reading experience where the multimedia and all the different

Stories that tell...

 seriously buried an avalanche you can imagine the feeling that you must be having when you see her a retriever digging the hole open and saving your life I mean it's got to be a moment

Capturing the Impact of...

 of the mountain he can't believe his eyes an overhanging ledge has protected Jose in hey-zeus as the avalanche steamrolled over the brothers are thrilled to be alive

Inches from an Avalanche...

 avalanches as snow thunders down the mountainside mammals are often buried beneath it's thought wolverines can sniff out frozen carcasses even deep beneath the snow