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Red Cross: Repairing Your Flooded Home

2015-12-11 17:30:31| PortlandOnline

Information from the Red Cross on how to repair your flooded home.

Is climate change behind storm that flooded parts of the UK?

2015-12-07 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: The army has been deployed and tens of thousands of homes across Scotland and the north of England are without power after Storm Desmond dumped torrential rain across the area, causing major flooding. Early figures suggest there was a record-breaking downpour of rain as 340 millimetres fell in 24 hours in the Lake District, breaking a record of 316.4mm set in 2009. It`s too soon to know whether the storm can be attributed to climate change, but green groups point out it is just what the UK...

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Union Pacific Freight Train Derails in Texas on Flooded Tracks

2015-10-24 19:12:02| Railroads - Topix.net

A Union Pacific freight train carrying cement derailed in Texas on Saturday as flood waters covered the tracks about 55 miles south of Dallas, putting locomotives and some of its rail cars on their side, according to a company spokesman and TV footage. The two crew members operating the train swam to safety after the derailment, Jeff DeGraff, a Union Pacific Railroad spokesman, told CNN.

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Some areas in flooded South Carolina facing second deluge

2015-10-08 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: South Carolina's governor warned on Thursday that several coastal areas were about to be hit by a second round of major flooding, while residents inland hauled soaked furniture and appliances from homes left in ruins by unprecedented rainfall. Governor Nikki Haley said the inundation expected in Georgetown, home to about 9,000 people, would last up to 12 days and she urged residents to heed evacuation notices. "Dont underestimate the power of water," she told a news conference in Summerville....

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