Brutal storms hamper salvage efforts in Aleutians
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Winds strong enough to fling 40-foot-long metal shipping containers down the beach like cardboard boxes. Darkness 16 hours a day. Average temperatures that flirt with freezing.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The search for six crew  members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island  has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup  of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on  Saturday.
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A powerful storm moved along the coast Tuesday, causing highway-blocking mudslides, flooding and power outages. Up to a foot of rain was possible in one mountain area.
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Survivors and rescuers battle the devastation left by sea surges that killed more than 20,000 on Asia's shores.
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NIIGATA-Aftershocks continued to rattle the quake-ravaged Chuetsu region Monday amid the damp, cold weather while thousands of evacuees struggled to survive in emergency shelters, cars and tents.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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Super-cyclone Olaf hit American Samoa's Manu'a Islands, with damage expected to be severe, authorities said, as the storm swung towards the Cook Islands.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan  Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge  waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other  coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook  nearby Prince William Sound.
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The Coast Guard helicopter crews who work out of Air Station Kodiak often fly through wind and whiteouts to rescue fishermen, freighter crews and recreational boaters from Alaska&#39;s roiling waters.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a sensitive
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Two tropical cyclones are bearing down  on three South Pacific island nations creating a "critically  dangerous situation," weather officials said on Tuesday.
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Residents of the Pacific Northwest struggled to stay warm Saturday after the worst windstorm in more than a decade knocked out power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses and killed at least six people.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a  Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian  island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a  sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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Officials shifted their focus from  rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on  Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship  split apart two days earlier, spilling its fuel oil, and six  crew members went missing.
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Two storms battered the island; Ivan may spare it. Still, residents prepare for worst - or stubbornly plan to stay.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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A rapidly growing low-pressure system brought typhoon-class winds to the Japanese archipelago from Saturday night to Sunday morning, causing blackouts, stranding ships and paralyzing some air and land traffic.