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I could have stuffed them with meat, cheese, and herbs, battered them lightly, and deep-fried them.

In a seven-page summary of the Jan. 6 meeting, emergency management officials compared the coming winds to the fierce windstorm that battered the region in December 2011.

The main character is a 75-year-old unregistered taxi driver from Vietnam who scrapes together a living in the shadows, giving strangers rides in his battered beige Camry.

On the morning Storm Bert battered the country, Mr Owens and his adult children, as well as his six grandchildren, were moving furniture.

"He was badly battered, he had a dog set on him, and at that point Rudi's personality changed," he said.