All posts tagged "flooding"

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  Planning Board, FEMA estimate: 200,000 Puerto Rico homes in flood zones

  Say 30,000 structures sustained substantial damage during hurricanes Irma and María

  • Posted January 24, 2018
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  Thousands return home as flood waters recede in California

  SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thousands of people evacuated from a flood in San Jose, California, returned home Thursday amid warnings to be careful about hygiene and handling food that may have come into contact with flood water....

  • Posted February 23, 2017
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  As water falls slightly at California dam, next storm looms

  A California Highway Patrol spokesman said they would have two planes out Monday to help with traffic control as well as search and rescue

  • Posted February 13, 2017
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  Iowa city braces for highest floodwaters since 2008 record

  IOWA — Residents of Cedar Rapids are watching anxiously as the quickly rising Cedar River threatens to inundate their city with devastating floodwaters for the second time in just over eight years. After days of sandbagging and erecting...

  • Posted September 27, 2016
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  In Flooded Louisiana, a Cleanup and a Search for Bodies

  BATON ROUGE, La. – Authorities went door to door and car to car to check for bodies Tuesday, and homeowners began the heartbreaking task of gathering up soaked family photos and mucking out houses dank with bayou...

  • Posted August 16, 2016
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  Government Makes Payment, Continues Negotiations with USGS for Water Monitoring

  Monitoring was suspended because of debt

  • Posted June 12, 2016
• About 2,500 People Evacuated in Dominican Republic Flooding

  Heavy rains over the previous 12 days

  • Posted May 8, 2016
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