The Patriot Act increases the government's power to spy in four areas. 1  1. Expanded access to personal records held by third parties. 2  2. More secret searches. 3  3. Expansion of the intelligence exception in wiretap law. 4  4. Expansion of the pen register exception in wiretap law.
Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm. Nimbo is a prefix and nimbus is a suffix. An example would be: Nimbostratus, a precipitating cloud.
1 Nimbus is a straight concrete gravity structure, 87 feet high and 1,093 feet long.  Lake Natoma, formed by the waters held by Nimbus Dam is an afterbay or regulating reservoir for Folsom Dam. Two 6,750 kilowatt generators produce power from Nimbus Dam water releases.