Va. Flooding Damages Buildings, Kills 7
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Police and fire officials escorted Richmond residents and business owners into their flood-ravaged homes and shops Wednesday, but only to allow them to retrieve pets and essentials such as prescription drugs.
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A large, fast-moving snowstorm that closed sections of major highways on the Plains on Saturday was blamed for seven traffic deaths, while strong winds in Arkansas cut a 5-mile-long swath of damage, destroying buildings and leaving several people injured.
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Torrential overnight rainfall flooded a handful of North Texas towns Monday, killing at least four people and stranding residents and their pets on the roofs of their homes.
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PENSACOLA, Fla.  - Hurricane Ivan slammed into the  U.S. Gulf coast on Thursday with furious winds and flooding,  ripping roofs off homes and hotels, washing out bridges,  downing power lines and spawning tornadoes that killed seven  people.
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By Greg Kocher, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Sep. 24--As floodwaters rose throughout Central Kentucky, firefighters had a busy night rescuing people from homes and stranded vehicles.   The Montgomery County Fire Department was especially stretched between 3:30 and 4 a.m.
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At least seven people die in flash floods in India's north-eastern state of Assam, officials say.
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A fire gutted a house in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, early Sunday, killing at least seven people. Some of the victims are believed to be college students, Mayor Debbie Smith said.
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Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed at least 30 people and damaged thousands of homes in central and eastern Sudan, the government said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD - Insurgents fired a shell into a crowded street in the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing seven people, including two children, and wounding 42, hospital officials say.
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RICHMOND, Va. - An area of about 20 blocks of downtown Richmond was roped off and was being condemned Tuesday after the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston flooded the city and other parts of central Virginia with a foot or more of rain...
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A typhoon ripped off roofs, felled trees and cut power lines on Vietnam's central coast on Sunday, killing at least seven people before weakening overland and moving into neighboring Laos, officials said.
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Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue Tuesday. Carcasses of pigs, goats and dogs and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city. Desperate people swarmed a truck delivering water.
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By Rindi White, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 6--WASILLA -- When heavy rains caused rivers and creeks to flood Aug. 18 and 19, the American Red Cross responded with more help than flood victims needed, Red Cross officials said.
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Heavy flooding in Somalia killed at least seven people overnight, bringing the death toll to 80 from three weeks of torrential rains, witnesses and aid workers have said.
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Seven people drowned and one was missing after severe floods following heavy rains in eastern Romania, the interior ministry said Friday, updating the toll.
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RICHMOND, Va. - An area of about 20 blocks of downtown Richmond was roped off and was declared uninhabitable Tuesday after the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston flooded the city and other parts of central Virginia with a foot or more of rain...
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Quang Tri, Nov. 27 (VNA)- Six days of continual rain beginning Monday has caused floods in most of central provinces, claiming the lives of 29 people, injuring four others and causing one to be reported missing.