Central America Floods Force Evacuations
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Three days of heavy rains have forced nearly 13,000 people from their homes and killed at least one person in Costa Rica and Panama, officials said Tuesday.
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Flooding caused by heavy rain chased residents from their homes in one Pacific Northwest community and killed livestock, and three people were missing Wednesday after a mudslide on the Canadian side of the border.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales declares a national disaster as floods leave more than 50 dead.
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Tens of thousands of people  hunkered in storm shelters on Tuesday as Hurricane Felix roared  toward Central America, but transport shortages left many  facing the storm&#39;s whipping winds and rain in their homes.
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HAITI - At least 90 people died due to floods caused by heavy rains brought by Tropical storm Jeanne. Hundreds of people in Port-au-Prince, Haitiâs capital, have to save their lives from powerful water streams on the roofs of their properties.
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Rescue teams in helicopters searched Sunday for dozens of people missing in floods and landslides that cut a trail of destruction through small Andean towns and killed at least 37 people over the past few days.
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Thousands of Mexicans are to be evacuated from their homes as a hurricane sweeps along the coast.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Rivers swelled with water dumped by Hurricane Ivan's remains from Ohio to Maryland, forcing thousands to evacuate, submerging a stadium and leading one town to haul out snowplows to shovel the muck...
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Dozens have died in Haiti as a result of floods accompanying a tropical storm which swept through the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
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Heavy flooding forces 60,000 people to be evacuated in Mozambique, while 100,000 others are at risk.
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Doctors threw together a makeshift clinic Wednesday to tend to the injured after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. Remnants of the storm drenched Central America in rain and the death toll rose to nine, with at least 11 people missing.
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A threat of flooding forced residents to evacuate part of one southeastern Arizona community Sunday following the latest in a series of winter storms that have pushed streams out of their banks in the midst of a drought.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - Doctors threw together a makeshift clinic yesterday to tend to the injured after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. Remnants of the storm drenched Central America in rain and the death toll rose to 18, with dozens missing.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, trashing a port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, killing at least four people and threatening deadly mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala.
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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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Tens of thousands of people, including Miskito Indians and foreign tourists, began fleeing low-lying coastal areas on Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the approaching Hurricane Felix.
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Mozambique will forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied calls to leave areas at risk of flooding, the government said on Sunday as an advancing tropical cyclone threatened to swell floodwaters.