1. the title begins with just 'storm' not 'a storm' or 'the storm'. what does this imply?

My cat and my dog like best friends

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.

When mrs. jameson says "it (the desert) won't leave you cold," what does she mean?