Holiday Hits Water Systems Hard:
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A turn of Peter Heckel's tap Tuesday morning did nothing. Heckel, a decades-long resident of North Raleigh, woke up to no water. A record-breaking weekend of Triangle water use had left the private water system that provides Heckel's home with pressure too low.
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Days of bad weather, a computer malfunction and sick airline employees put tens of thousands of travelers in holiday limbo Saturday, with Comair canceling all its flights and US Airways trying to reconnect thousands of pieces of luggage with their owners.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM  SANTA CLARITA -- Local water suppliers are urging conservation as summer approaches in this driest year on record -- and as the region's main water supply is reduced to a trickle because of a threatened fish 300 miles away.
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Tourism businesses blame the bad weather as new figures reveal a mixed season for the industry.
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By Robert LaHue, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Dec. 15--Despite rains that hit Yuba-Sutter in the past week, rainfall and snowpacks are below average for this time of year.   But those involved in monitoring water resources note it's still early in the water year.
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Thanksgiving didn&#39;t start out as planned for many holiday travelers who began the long weekend stuck in airports or creeping along highways after fierce storms dumped snow in the Midwest.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 26--An environmental crisis could disrupt water supplies throughout California for the first time since the early 1990s, threatening to end the long cease-fire in the state's water wars.
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With drought conditions intensifying across the Southeast, efforts to conserve water are popping up everywhere Â even at the aquarium.
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With a weak back-to-school season behind them, the nation&#39;s retailers are focused on the holidays and what steps they need to take to get consumers excited about shopping again.
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Santa Claus may be coming to town, but lots of people will be leaving or otherwise hard to reach in Iowa and New Hampshire. That makes for plenty of nervous pollsters preparing to take late soundings on the presidential race during the frenzied holiday period.
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Snowstorms and freezing rain that hit the Ohio Valley in mid-week have complicated plans for delivering thousands of packages nationwide in time for Christmas, delivery companies said Thursday.
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The Salvation Army struggles this holiday season
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GUANGZHOU, China  - Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow ahead of what for some is the only holiday of the year.
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If you&#39;re headed toward Houston for the Thanksgiving holiday, you may run into some flooded roads. Portions of US highway 59 in Wharton and Jackson counties are closed this morning, after nearly 15 inches of rain fell on the area.
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Many events are affected over the Bank holiday weekend after two inches of rain fell in parts of England.
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By Henry Brean  By HENRY BREAN  REVIEW-JOURNAL  What looked like a normal year on the Colorado River took "a hard right turn" in January, as a sudden dry spell took hold in the mountains of eastern Utah and western Colorado, a federal water supply forecaster said Friday.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.