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All posts tagged "flood"

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  South Carolina cleans up, but worries remain amid floods

  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of Miss South Carolina 1954 found her flood-soaked pageant scrapbook on a dining room floor littered with dead fish on Tuesday, as the first sunny day in nearly two weeks provided...

  • Posted October 6, 2015
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  11 dead as Hurricane Joaquin brings ‘historic’ flooding to US

  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Another day of heavy rain drenched an already inundated South Carolina on Monday as rescue teams went door-to-door to check on people in swamped neighborhoods and authorities surveyed a statewide road system torn...

  • Posted October 5, 2015
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  Heavy rain in Japan overflows rivers, floods homes

  OKYO (AP) — Heavy rain is pummeling Japan for a second straight day, overflowing rivers and causing landslides and localized flooding in the eastern part of the country. Tokyo was drenched overnight, but the hardest-hit area Thursday...

  • Posted September 9, 2015
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  Major floods leave 89 N. Koreans dead, 10 missing: Red Cross

  BEIJING (Yonhap) — Two major floods caused by heavy rainfall killed 89 people and left 10 people missing in North Korea last month, the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) said Wednesday. North Korean authorities and...

  • Posted September 9, 2015
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  Typhoon Goni kills 40, affects 11,000 in N. Korea

  Typhoon Goni covered parts of North Korea in torrential downpour resulting in 40 deaths and affecting 11,000 people the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) said on Wednesday. Additionally, the storm destroyed “153 houses” and 849...

  • Posted August 26, 2015
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  Search resumes for those missing in Texas floodwaters, 1000s of cars abandoned in Houston

  WIMBERLEY, Texas (AP) — Recovery teams resumed the search Tuesday for missing people after a rain-swollen river carried a Texas vacation home off its foundation and slammed it into a bridge downstream. In Houston, authorities recovered three...

  • Posted May 26, 2015
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  40 people rescued from flash flood in California

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities now say about 40 people were rescued from vehicles trapped by flash floods in a Southern California community at the tail end of a three-day storm. Riverside County Fire Department officials say...

  • Posted December 4, 2014
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