Thousands of cars flooded by Katrina towed
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A forklift raised a muddy and battered car from beneath an interstate overpass Monday morning, marking the start of the cleanup of some 100,000 vehicles flooded by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Heavy rain caused flash floods in seaside communities in southwestern England on Monday, and dozens of people were rescued from cars, trees and rooftops by emergency helicopters and lifeboats, officials said.
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When Hurricane Katrina struck the Louisiana coast last year Jim Osborne organized a convoy of 10 airboats in South Florida and headed west to assist in the rescue efforts.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus Tuesday amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water...
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Heavy rain caused further havoc in the  Bangladesh port city of Chittagong on Tuesday where rescuers  have recovered at least 87 bodies but more feared missing  following the biggest storm in decades.
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Rescue workers are rushing relief aid to tens of thousands of wet and hungry survivors, as heavy equipment moves in to clear debris from two storms that are feared to have claimed 1,100 lives in the northern Philippines.
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Motorists were warned to &quot;exercise caution&quot; when refuelling their cars after thousands were apparently sold contaminated fuel, leading to hundreds of breakdowns.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Hurricane Katrina left more than gutted houses and empty streets along the Gulf Coast.
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Workers used dump trucks to empty more than 100 bodies into a 14-foot-deep mass grave yesterday, as officials struggled to deal with the corpses of hundreds of Haitian flooding victims.
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Storms slammed rain-soaked Ohio on Saturday and hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest were without power after their homes were battered by lashing winds and flooding rains.
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Running last-minute errands as Hurricane Ivan bore down, Melissa Frick suddenly knew exactly how she'd keep her car safe from flooding &#151; park it in a multilevel garage.
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At least 29 people were killed and 340,000 people were driven from their homes after this weekendâs flood.
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LONDON, July 23 -- Britain's worst flooding in decades left tens of thousands of families without water or electricity Monday night and forced thousands from their homes, including some dramatically rescued from rising waters by helicopters and boats.
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Heavy rains pounded the Tucson area on Thursday, flooding numerous streets and strangling traffic.
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Millions were left without power and hundreds of thousands without ready access to gasoline, groceries or other daily staples.
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(CBS/AP) A state of emergency was declared as Tropical Storm Gaston whipped through Virginia, sending several feet of rushing water that picked up cars and trucks in the capital and sent them smashing into buildings.
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With a dozen people dead from weekend flooding in the Midwest and South, residents were busy shoveling mud from homes and businesses that were inundated with water.