California mud devastates village
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At least three people die as a huge mudslide crashes onto a coastal village in California.
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Soldiers have manned bulldozers and residents pitched in with shovels and rakes as Philippine authorities clear mud, logs and debris from flood-hit towns where hundreds have died.
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Hundreds of rescuers are sent to a remote  Taiwanese village destroyed by a mudslide triggered by Typhoon Aere.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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FERNLEY, Nev., Jan. 5 -- A ruptured levee sent a frigid "wall of water" from a rain-swollen canal into this high desert town Saturday, flooding hundreds of homes and forcing the rescue of dozens of people by helicopter and boat.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - At least three people were  killed, 10 hurt and up to a dozen were missing on Monday after  a hillside soaked by five days of rain collapsed onto a coastal  Southern California neighborhood.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - At least one person was  killed, nine others hurt and up to a dozen more missing on  Monday after a hillside saturated by days of heavy rain  collapsed onto a coastal Southern California neighborhood.
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Standing head bowed amid the rubble of his house in this flattened west coast village, Dinesh Priyantha remembered the exact moment one month ago when a mammoth wave carried three of his aunts to their deaths.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb.
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Los Angeles -- Blustery winds, record rainfall and mudslides have blocked highways and shut off power for thousands of homes and businesses in California.
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In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a handful of desperate people scavenging a beach for food.
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By Ron Jackson, The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 27--WALTERS -- A Tuesday morning deluge dropped more than 5 inches on this already rain-soaked town and caused flash flooding in a section of town that sits on a hill.
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By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 20--California is running out of sand, gravel and crushed stone -- the building blocks of construction used in every road, house, school and hospital.
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The question of how to treat wastewater in an exclusive California beachfront community is pitting neighbors, surfers and environmentalists against one another.
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LONDON: Rescue workers combed an English coastal village in north Cornwall yesterday for people missing after a flash flood caused by torrential rain hit Britain&#39;s southwestern Atlantic coast.
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The first two weeks of the year were the rainiest in the history of Los Angeles, as nearly 17 inches fell and all of the state's major insurance companies declared a "catastrophe." Highways closed, hillsides collapsed and at least 15 people died across Southern California.
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A novel plan to stop up a deadly upwelling of mud has the potential for added disaster, experts say.