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Morrison then took shelter in a friend's more secure place.
Some survivors took shelter in the dark at the center.
Refugees who fled fighting in Palmyra took shelter at the school.
But migrants took shelter in them anyway as it began to rain.
Despite the occasional edge of danger, Illinois was where Wallace took shelter.
The Taliban took shelter in a home while fighting the security forces.
Then the heavens opened up and he took shelter under the Swiss Bridge.
In Durham, the Duke men's basketball team took shelter in an underground tunnel.
She and others took shelter backstage at the school, according to station KPRC.
"We took shelter in the kitchen with this screaming mob outside," Cruz explained.
Branson took shelter in a concrete cellar on Necker Island during the storm.
During the 2005 storm, thousands of New Orleans residents took shelter in the dome.
At one United Nations camp, up to 25,000 people took shelter from the fighting.
His friend was able to escape the bees and took shelter in a nearby restroom.
He and his wife, Diana Aponte, 73, took shelter inside their home when Maria hit.
Too hurt to continue, Trevino took shelter under a tree and Max remained with him.
Alaphilippe, speaking from Val d'Isere, where the riders took shelter in a tunnel, conceded defeat.
Some, unable to leave, took shelter on their rooftops as flash floods swallowed entire streets.
Saraqib emptied out as families hid in the fields or took shelter in other towns.
One night, as the skies thundered and flashed, the men took shelter in a basement.
I took shelter in a low abandoned building next to a wide field of slate.
About 100 people are took shelter at a nearby school, Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera said.
Before heading to the New World, the Pilgrims took shelter from English religious persecution in Leiden.
About 850 people took shelter at community centers, school gymnasiums and other public facilities in Osaka.
Others took shelter in two large white tents, where episodes played from a pair of projectors.
Eventually, Walter and all 21 took shelter at a crew member's house in nearby Kemah, Texas.
Thousands of storm evacuees took shelter at the Louisiana Superdome, where the New Orleans Saints play.
Many who had escaped from the floods took shelter at a local Catholic parish, he said.
" Eric Cunningham, who took shelter in his basement, said the scene outside looked like a "war zone.
" He and his friends took shelter, but he soon found himself asking, "Why were we waiting here?
On a recent day, nearly 3,343 impassive animals took shelter from the midday heat under makeshift tents.
Edward and his wife took shelter in another room, behind a barricaded door, and called for help.
During the first winter, the crew took shelter on Beechey Island, where three sailors died and were buried.
Hundreds of businesses closed early, and people took shelter, but only a handful of stores were actually looted.
He took shelter in a basement and heard two explosions, exiting later to air covered with thick dust.
During a recent armed conflict drill, students quickly evacuated their classrooms and took shelter in the school's theater.
With nowhere else to turn, I took shelter in Taylor — who scooped up three Grammy awards Monday night.
People took shelter in their bathrooms in the Midwest, and in the basement of the United States Capitol.
When she took shelter on the roof of a school, she said, she was raped by a stranger.
Though Falmung took shelter at his parents when the storm hit, he doesn't live with them full-time.
There were so few houses that people took shelter in a school where rain had caved in the roof.
"I saw the clouds spin backwards and the trees began to sway uncontrollably and we took shelter," she said.
MASAYA, Nicaragua — On a dusty backstreet in the city of Masaya, masked protesters took shelter behind a stone barricade.
Some insurgents, as well as many refugees fleeing the violence, took shelter on Lebanon's side of the border strip.
Dhaher and Mohammed spoke from the Shahrezad district on the outskirts of eastern Mosul, where they took shelter overnight.
Larry took shelter under Trump's vehicle during the president's meeting with May in the morning, according to traveling media.
She took shelter in what she called a "cellar" with a group that was at first just 15 people.
The family at Bethel Church first took shelter in a church in Katwijk, the coastal town where they lived.
They took shelter in a still-vacant house up the block, but decided the water was rising too fast.
Several children and the owner of the house in which the Taliban took shelter were among the six killed.
Many people in and around Tokyo took shelter in temporary evacuation facilities before the worst of the storm arrived.
In the historic center, men took shelter behind makeshift barricades amid plumes of tear gas, according to Reuters witnesses.
The shrine attack has heightened tensions with Afghanistan, after Pakistani officials said some militant leaders took shelter over the border.
More than $16 billion took shelter in low-risk, U.S.-based money-market funds during the seven days through Sept.
Relatives say the couple, who were married for 55 years, took shelter in the rental's swimming pool for hours overnight.
His wife and children took shelter in the second floor of their home, while the store filled up with water.
Her home demolished, Ms. Rogers, then 10 years old, took shelter from hail and driving rain in a destroyed car.
Hundreds of Hualien residents whose homes were destroyed took shelter at a local stadium, with relief organizations providing emergency supplies.
When the minute ended, some took shelter under the trees to write messages of love and condolence on large banners.
Sarah recalled the harrowing day of shelling in Damascus, when she and her younger brothers took shelter on the first floor.
Took this when we made it out of storage room,ran downstairs,we took shelter with others,blood everywhere #istanbul pic.twitter.
In Misha, Defonseca details how she escaped Nazis, walked from Belgium to Ukraine, and took shelter among wolves along the way.
About 500 people took shelter in a sports hall after the Andriantany canal, which drains waste water from the city, overflowed.
William Barber's help -- took shelter inside the School for Conversion, a small house on the grounds of a Durham Baptist church.
"We all bonded," said another student, describing how she and her classmates took shelter in a chemistry class and heard gunshots.
Both of the men accused of masterminding the crime took shelter in Florida, where one, Luis Posada Carriles, lives to this day.
After losing their bearings they fell 100 meters off a cliff into a ravine, where they took shelter in a small cave.
A Red Cross employee told local ABC affiliate KRCR-TV some 500 people took shelter in an evacuation center at Shasta College.
"If we survive, they will survive," said Jean-Robert Nazaire, 56, the neighbor with whom the family took shelter during the storm.
Police also fired tear gas in the nearby new town of Tai Po, where protesters took shelter on the street behind umbrellas.
The group took shelter inside a soundproof studio and were rescued more than three hours later by police and Red Cross workers.
Investors also took shelter in gold, which held steady at $1,285.30, near the 49.183 1/2-week high of $1,289.80 seen overnight.
When it was over, there was a hole in the roof in his guest bedroom, not far from where he took shelter.
Source: National Weather Service By Jin Wu The barrage continued Tuesday night, as people across the Midwest took shelter from powerful storms.
We took shelter in a small building with a cafe and tourist information desk, and one of the employees, Mike, introduced himself.
The villagers made it to safety and by evening took shelter in a small building owned by a nearby hydroelectric plant uphill.
Lucy Knight, Gunning, New South Wales I took shelter on Rosedale Beach with my three young children as the fire took hold.
People huddled in hotel basements, crawled under tables, raced from beaches and took shelter in military hangars when the alert hit phones.
I first noticed this near the beginning of the game, when I took shelter in a cave from a B.T.-riddled rainstorm.
Parents Bruce and Jessica Coane took shelter in their Houston apartment with their newborn as the hurricane flooded large parts of the city.
Virgil and his mother, Lisa Wallace, took shelter in a nearby neighbor's second-floor apartment after water rushed into their ground floor home.
People also took shelter in the village's secondary school – whose roof was still intact – sitting or slumped, head down, at its wooden desks.
On a blisteringly windy, cold winter day, I took shelter from the outdoors with my friend at a gastropub and ordered a burger.
One man with his wife and small children took shelter in a church, trying to warm up and regroup after the arduous crossing.
Some of the ugliest massacres were committed in churches, missions and parishes where Tutsis who took shelter were hunted down by extremist Hutu militias.
She said dozens of people took shelter in the restaurant, and police ordered them to stay inside as they attempted to stop the attackers.
Some drummed and waved national flags as they mingled in the street, while others took shelter from the sun under parasols and makeshift tents.
People took shelter in their homes and hid beneath their beds as the sounds of guns and heavier weapons rose, fell and rose again.
The euro also lost 33 percent of its value versus the Japanese currency to 124.80 as investors took shelter in the safe-haven currency.
In one ravaged area, villagers said they took shelter in caves — and will have to keep doing so until they can rebuild their homes.
After she abandoned her car, the raging current took her to Mr. Corl's car, where she took shelter until it started filling with water.
According to the Y.M.C.A.'s statement, 45 members and seven employees took shelter in the building, which was hit by at least two bullets.
Eric Cunningham, a resident who took shelter in his basement, described the scene as being like something you'd see in a place ravaged by war.
The news outlet also reported that roughly 70 people took shelter at Jonestown Fire Department, which is about eight miles away from the wreckage site.
"The island became known in 1808, when Dom João VI (the King of Portugal and Brazil) took shelter here in a storm," explained Jose Kevorkian.
Some mall patrons took shelter in unaffected stores, and witnesses told CBS News that the sound of the car hitting the building first resembled gunshots.
Many rebels, alongside thousands of Sunni refugees fleeing violence and Hezbollah's control over their towns, took shelter on the Lebanese side of the border strip.
Electricity and most telephone services were cut, and residents took shelter in their houses, making it difficult to gain a complete picture of the fighting.
Rapid gunfire could be heard echoing around the area, which is across the Hudson River from New York City, as residents ran and took shelter.
Mike O'Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of public safety, told CNN early Thursday morning that he took shelter in a closet in Jefferson City.
Harvey, which Culver called the "most terrifying event in his life," destroyed most of his home while he and his wife took shelter in Rockport, Texas.
Steve Culver cries with his dog, Otis, on Saturday after Hurricane Harvey destroyed most of his home in Rockport, where he and his wife took shelter.
She said dozens of people took shelter inside the restaurant, and police ordered them to stay inside, as they engaged in a shootout with the attackers.
Apalachicola, Florida (CNN)After boarding up windows and filling sandbags, residents took shelter Thursday night as Hurricane Hermine bore down on the Sunshine State's Panhandle region.
Morrison said she and her husband took shelter in the bathtub as the twister lifted their house off the ground and swept it into the woods.
Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, and those unable to leave took shelter on rooftops as the streets filled with water.
Small circles of people took shelter from the noonday sun under plastic tarps, sipping on cups of café touba, a spiced coffee heavily dosed with sugar.
As they made their way along the river, they slid into a ravine and became stuck on the ledge, where they took shelter in a cave.
Necker Island, Richard Branson's private island—where he now famously took shelter in his wine cellar as Hurricane Irma hit—was largely damaged by Irma as well.
The mayor's office in St. Martin has been damaged, the update from Guadeloupe said, and the mayor and 23 others took shelter in a concrete-walled room.
Staff and officials at the training center took shelter in a protected area of the compound as gunfire came from a half-finished building near the site.
Desmond Piccolo Henry took shelter in his concrete home with his wife and a friend on one of the islands, Providenciales, as the storm rocked the area.
Paige said she took shelter with other students in an area behind a stage after they were told to wait there before trying to flee the campus.
As we took shelter in the studio from the blustery day outside, Churchman made cups of espresso, opened a can of dolmades and answered T's Artist Questionnaire.
In one case, after a boat broke down and its crew took shelter in a truck, Cain said locals attempted to steal the boat to get to safety.
At a local elementary school in Hiroshima&aposs Yano district, dozens of residents took shelter and some shared their stories of narrow escape from the landslides and floods.
Police told CNN the perpetrators attacked the checkpoint, which was set up about a kilometer from the gathering, and took shelter in a house after fighting broke out.
As investors selectively took shelter in safe-haven assets, the MSCI index of global stocks hit its lowest levels since early February while gauges of market volatility jumped.
Recently, the force's K-9 officer Kina was shot in the line of duty and took shelter to protect herself, as K-9 officers are trained to do.
The suspect, James Michael Bowden, 32, took shelter in the home, about 5 miles southwest of the small city of Dardanelle after the deputy was shot, police said.
There was a small storm moving east through Orlando and the reporters on the roof of the VAB took shelter from a light rain under large metallic vents.
Diane Kruger-Sargent comforted her twin daughters McKenzie, left, and JaiDyn as they took shelter on the first floor of a hotel in Jefferson City on Wednesday night.
The cheese was invented in 1791 when a priest from Brie (yes, like the cheese), took shelter with a dairymaid, Marie Harel, as he fled France's anticlerical government.
More than 200 people took shelter at a Guanica coliseum, he said, but fearful for their safety if the building were toppled, they relocated to the parking lot.
The Crabtree Valley Mall was placed on lockdown in the early afternoon after several shoppers reported hearing gunfire and took shelter inside shops as police descended on the mall.
As hundreds of demonstrators fled in every direction, many took shelter in shopping malls and office buildings, scrambling over the makeshift barricades they had erected earlier in the day.
The United Nations said last week 160,000 had been displaced as they fled heavy bombardment and mostly took shelter in villages and areas near the Israeli and Jordanian borders.
Like a number of other people, including Angel Santiago Jr., they took shelter in a bathroom; several including Ms. Carter and her friends, cowered in a large handicapped stall.
Local residents reported heavy shelling near the Pakistani border, and villagers took shelter in underground bunkers used during previous violations of the cease-fire along the Line of Control.
The City of Houston put out a call for doctors, nurses and social workers to go to the George R. Brown Convention Center, where thousands of people took shelter.
Perez and her relatives, including her 58-year-old father, took shelter at Gloria Maria Borrero School in Guayanilla after Perez's apartment began "separating from the sidewalk," she said.
"We took shelter from the strongest hurricane ever inside the concrete cellar on Necker and very, very fortunately it held firm," he wrote in a follow-up blog post today.
Tuesday night, employees at the local National Weather Service office paused and took shelter "due to the fact that our employees felt that their safety was being jeopardized," Heitkamp said.
Republican Senators eagerly took shelter behind this thin reed: Witnesses could not possibly shed relevant light on the facts because even if all the facts are true, Trump is not guilty.
The entire episode seemed to last just "15 to 30 seconds," he said, but he and others, unsure if it was over, went inside and took shelter in a basement laboratory.
Arpakorn Yookongkaew said Tuesday that seven members of his unit — including a doctor and a nurse — are now with the 12 boys and their coach in the cave where they took shelter.
Jerusalem (CNN)One of the suspects in this week's Tel Aviv terror attack took shelter at an off-duty police officer's home, joining a group of people who were fleeing the violence.
Ferguson took shelter in the garage of a nearby home along with other medical personnel and hospital patients, including a mother who had just given birth by cesarean section, the Times reports.
Thousands of people took shelter as tourist resorts along the world-famous Great Barrier Reef and mainland coastal areas were belted with wind gusts stronger than 260 km per hour (160 mph).
The students who took shelter in the Church of Jesus of the Divine Mercy along with priests and journalists endured a night of gunfire until the bishops won their release at daybreak.
"We remain on red alert," Marasigan told a media briefing, adding that 69,672 evacuees were housed in schools while nearly 12,000 took shelter in tents or went to relatives in more secure locations.
In one public hospital in Les Cayes, a coffee and vetiver exporting port on Haiti's Tiburon peninsula, most doctors had not shown up to work since they took shelter as the storm hit.
The US Coast Guard and police have rescued more than 6,000 residents in the immediate Houston area, while some 7,000 people took shelter in the city's George R. Brown Convention Center Monday night.
It was a scene of austere beauty: the rolling plain, broken here and there by basalt outcroppings where the native Tehuelches took shelter from the wind and lie in wait for passing game.
One of her sons, Jajuan Washington, 14, sprinted several blocks away, while the oldest son, Kavion Washington, 18, grabbed 12-year-old Jermar Taylor and took shelter behind the column of a parking garage.
It took them nearly ten days to get to Bangladesh, she recalls, as her and her children took shelter in the forest for days at a time to make sure Burmese militants weren't following them.
According to Clifton, seven members of the family that runs the daycare, including three children, took shelter in the building upon hearing the tornado warnings, feeling it was a safer option than their mobile home.
Megan McGuire, who told the affiliate that she and her mother took shelter between beds at the inn, said she'd never seen anything like it in the 24 years she's been vacationing on Cape Cod.
When he took a break, laying down his spade, pick and shovel, he liked to watch the ivy-clad churchyard walls where the blackbirds nested and where snails took shelter in the heat of the day.
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Jordanian army began delivering humanitarian aid to thousands of displaced Syrians who took shelter near its border when major fighting broke out in southern Syria this month, a government spokeswoman said on Saturday.
A team led by Thai Navy SEAL divers pushed through the murk of a half-mile-long chamber to a passageway that could lead to where the missing possibly took shelter, the SEAL&aposs commander, Rear Adm.
On the night of the event, even a heavy downpour didn't deter scores of ravers from showing up and dancing in the outdoor courtyard, though some took shelter in the cavernous indoor space of the Great Hall.
"I knew at that point there was nothing I could do," he said, according to the AP. He took shelter in a choir loft and he called 911, whispering to the dispatcher, thinking his death was imminent.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Three people have been killed in floods in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg and a young girl was killed by a train as she took shelter from the rain under a railway bridge.
Crime and violence are on the rise in the squalid, sprawling camps around the coastal city of Cox's Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya took shelter in recent years after fleeing persecution in neighboring Myanmar.
Coy Ferreira said he was one of a group of terrified people who took shelter inside Rancho Tehama School, the elementary school, where bullets crashed through the window of the classroom he was in, wounding a boy.
As terrified shoppers fled in panic, or took shelter in restaurants and bars, soldiers patrolling the area as part of regular anti-terror operations raced to the scene and exchanged fire in two clashes with the suspect.
The opinions expressed in this article belong to the author (CNN)As shells exploded around their home in a besieged neighborhood of Ta'iz, Yemen, brothers Yahia and Maher, then age 16 and 18, took shelter beneath the staircase.
Yet hundreds of thousands of Afghans who fled overseas in recent decades are returning to the country - mainly from neighboring Iran and Pakistan, where more than 6 million took shelter after the 1979 Soviet invasion, the U.N. says.
Santa Rosa, California (CNN)When a wildfire engulfed their hilltop rental house without warning, Armando and Carmen Berriz took shelter in a swimming pool, their mouths and noses poking out of the water to gulp the smoky air.
People like Juleon H. Dove, in New Bern, N.C., who took shelter on the second floor of his family's mortuary business, listening as the water rushed in below and watching from windows as it slowly engulfed nearby homes.
Kennedy took shelter there in a concrete condo building blocks away alongside ABC News' chief meteorologist Ginger Zee, the two surveying the damage from the balcony of their high-rise in footage that aired on Thursday's Good Morning America.
It ended after around 230 migrants broke out of the detention center and marched in protest to the main port of this vacation destination, where many took shelter under slatternly tarps and pup tents on a vast concrete expanse.
But this week during Hurricane Harvey, Mr. Krauss found himself writing about how he and his family salvaged what they could as water poured into their house and over their cars before they took shelter on the second floor.
Guests, including French actress Isabelle Huppert, took shelter under see-through umbrellas on the outdoor catwalk, set among the bamboo and lush vegetation of the jungle-like garden at the Quai Branly, a museum focused on non-European cultures.
Guests, including French actress Isabelle Huppert, took shelter under see-through umbrellas on the outdoor catwalk, set among the bamboo and lush vegetation of the jungle-like garden at the Quai Branly, a museum focused on non-European cultures.
Amy Gordon took shelter with two friends in her studio apartment on the night of September 19, when Hurricane Maria's intense winds hit Vieques, which is just seven miles off the east coast of the mainland and home to 9,000 people.
Dazed and ragged, new migrants stumble up the industrial road from nearby Calais every day, past the graphite electrode factory and underneath the well-guarded highway overpass that serves as the entrance to the camp, where three Afghan boys recently took shelter.
They hiked overland in active fires for several miles trying to get to the creek and/or down the hill into Santa Rosa, were trapped by several fences, and eventually my friend took shelter in a shed while fire raged all around.
Steve Culver cries with his dog Otis as he talks about what he said was the "most terrifying event in his life," when Tropical Storm Harvey blew in and destroyed most of his home while he and his wife took shelter there on Aug.
On Friday, scheduled emergency evacuation drills took place in multiple Japanese cities, practicing for a "missile launch from Country X." Hundreds of local residents in Aomori and Hokkaido prefectures took shelter in community centers and public buildings at the sound of a mock siren.
Festo Fraser, 30, a Juba resident who took shelter in a church with his three children after firefights erupted in his neighborhood this weekend, said he had been stopped by soldiers who spoke to him in the Dinka language to determine his ethnic identity.
During the 38 minutes it took the agency to send a corrective alert rescinding the warning on Saturday, residents and tourists in a state that was already on edge over escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea frantically said their goodbyes and took shelter.
Hoping to contain a deluge of sexual-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America took shelter in bankruptcy court on Tuesday, filing for Chapter 2000 protection that will let the group keep operating while it grapples with questions about the future of the century-old Scouting movement.
Hundreds of cars and vehicles carrying families and their belongings flocked into the city from makeshift camps and villages in the countryside, where many of the city's residents took shelter during the two-month campaign, according to an SDF official and relatives who were in contact with residents.
The greenback held just above a 14-month low against the yen as investors took shelter in the low-yielding currency on concerns the outbreak of a trade war would derail global growth at a time when U.S. deficit is seen expanding sharply on Trump's fiscal stimulus plans.
After floating about two and a half miles downstream from where her car had been dragged into the water, she grabbed onto another tree and eventually scrambled onto a small island in the middle of the flooded Turkey Creek, where she took shelter until the sun came up.
When one of Dakar's infamous rainstorms came barreling in, the thunder so loud it made my ears ring, we took shelter under the palm roof of a restaurant on the sand and watched the water come down in sheets while sharing a whole grouper grilled over an open flame.
Cylon and those who followed him took shelter in the Temple of Pallas Athena, on the Acropolis, a sacrosanct refuge, but while Cylon managed to escape, his followers were persuaded to abandon the temple on condition that their lives would be spared; they subsequently stood trial and were summarily executed.
The local radio station informed me that they played "more hits than regulations allow," and inside a coffee shop where I took shelter, a regular patron and the barista bemoaned that EPA regulations precluded them from pumping the water out of their overflowing parking lot—something to do with being so close to the ocean.
And at 130 feet below, wonders of the ancient world are revealed, as the Napoli Sotterranea organization's tour (10 euros) takes you into a maze of caves that stretches over 280 miles, carved into the volcanic tuff bedrock by the Greeks in the 4th century B.C. The 90-minute tour guides visitors past a Greek-Roman theater where Nero once performed, and through the archaic hollows where Neapolitans took shelter during World War II air raids.

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