Matthew Weakens, Sparks Flooding in La.
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Tropical Storm Matthew, the 13th named storm of the 2004 hurricane season, weakened Sunday after moving into southern Louisiana, causing scattered flooding as heavy rain drenched the area.
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LONDON -- Swollen rivers from torrential rain forced thousands of people from their homes, and forecasters warned Monday that water levels could rise to critical levels.
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It didn&#39;t take the latest hurricane-induced deluge for Carolina Panthers team officials to acknowledge on Friday afternoon that, when it rains, it pours.
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By Dahleen Glanton, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--ATLANTA -- North and South Carolina are fighting over a river.  In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniel's  whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers.
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Typhoon Xangsane weakened to a tropical   storm over the Philippines on Thursday but fierce winds and   driving rains killed at least eight people, displaced nearly   5,500 and devastated parts of the central islands and Manila.
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Storms are dumping more rain than usual on the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas and prompting flood warnings in Southern California.
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REAL, Philippines  - Flood waters receded in the  northern Philippines on Friday in the wake of a typhoon, but  thousands of people remained cut off from help, hungry and at  risk of disease after a week of severe flooding.
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BATON ROUGE, La. Oyster harvesting was closed in south Louisiana due to the possibility that Tropical Storm Matthew dirtied oyster reefs.
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Tropical Storm Matthew sloshed ashore in a flood-prone area of Louisiana on Sunday, hitting the US Gulf Coast with heavy rain and a strong sea surge.
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Tropical Storm Noel dumped torrential  rain on vulnerable Haiti on Monday, triggering fears of deadly  flash floods and mudslides in the impoverished Caribbean  country.
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Emergency workers in boats rescued people from cars and homes left stranded by rising water Wednesday as heavy rain doused southern Minnesota and caused flash flooding. The storm was blamed for at least one death.
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Matthew, which had weakened into a  tropical depression by morning, regained tropical storm  strength in the western Gulf of Mexico on Saturday afternoon,  said the National Hurricane Center.
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Nearly a foot of rain from the remnants of Hurricane Frances caused flooding and mudslides Wednesday in mountainous western North Carolina, as the storm drenched a region extending all the way north to the Great Lakes.
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Parts of Jakarta are beginning to dry out from the week1s devastating floods
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Officials in Haiti feared flash floods would hit impoverished areas of the nation early Monday, as Tropical Storm Noel lashed the country with heavy rains.
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Ernesto became the first hurricane of the Atlantic season Sunday then weakened to a tropical storm as it lashed Haiti's southern coast with heavy rain and flooded homes in the impoverished country.
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With maximum sustain winds of 40 mph, along with higher gusts, Tropical Storm Matthew was expected to move inland over the US Gulf Coast Sunday morning.