Ohio River Flooding Damages Homes
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Flooding on the Ohio River damaged hundreds of homes and businesses Friday, a soggy calling card left by the winter storm that had brought miserable conditions across much of the central and northeastern United States.
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By Shelley Byrne, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 25--The rain is over, but the trouble is just beginning for some of those who live near creeks and rivers.
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Homeowners in parts of England and Wales are on flood standby as more heavy rain continues to fall.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 27--Swollen rivers and creeks in southern Oklahoma appeared to reach their peak flood levels Wednesday morning, but forecasters fear more rainfall tonight before floodwaters begin to recede.
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By Dean Narciso, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 18--A levee built as a short-term fix to protect a limestone quarry from flooding left a generation of potential problems for the Big Darby Creek.
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Home owners in north Wales hit by floods for the second time in less than a year say they face financial ruin.
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WHEELING, W.Va. - Hundreds of people evacuated their homes Sunday in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as rivers and small streams were swollen beyond their banks by the torrential rain dumped by remnants of Hurricane Ivan...
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Aug. 23 -- Water from the worst flood in nearly a century in this northwest Ohio city began receding Thursday, as it did elsewhere in the Midwest, allowing some of the evacuees of more than 1,000 homes to get a look at the soaked photo albums, boxes of clothes and furniture in their...
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Mar. 3--As the water level rose in Hicks Lake during torrential rains this winter, so did nearby homeowners' fears of flooding.
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Rain lashed the Panther diner as remnants of Hurricane Frances barrelled through the Ohio River Valley, flooding creeks and closing roads in this town in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
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An intense rainfall has forced evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday.
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Several towns were under flood warnings Thursday after powerful storms raced across the upper Midwest, toppling trees and power lines and bringing so much rain that one community was split in two by flooding.
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A stretch of the swollen Ohio River in  Pennsylvania remained closed to vessels on Monday, a day after  a tugboat pushing six barges of coal upstream sank killing  three people, officials said.
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Storms drew a line down the middle of the nation Tuesday, dumping snow to the north, spawning damaging tornadoes to the south and dropping heavy rain on parts of Ohio still recovering from major floods months ago.
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Residents of parts of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana struggled on Saturday to recover from nearly a week of destructive thunderstorms while preparing for more floods from overburdened rivers and streams.
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Emergency services evacuated hundreds of  homes in the university city of Oxford on Wednesday as the  River Thames broke its banks and Britain grappled with its  worst floods in 60 years.
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Residents of communities on both sides of the Ohio River were urged to stay indoors Tuesday and schools were closed because acid fumes had leaked from a railroad car.