Hull floods 'swamped drains'
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Hull's drainage system was overwhelmed when severe flooding affected the area in June, a key report says.
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Last month was the country&#39;s wettest June since records began, provisional figures out Thursday showed, as a flood clean-up continued and a backlog of tennis matches stacked up at rain-soaked Wimbledon.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the scene of the worst flooding in Britain in 60 years Monday as thousands of people remained cut off and many without access to clean water.
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"Rainfall-wise, the worst is over, certainly for the working week"  Gasoline-powered pumps roared into action Tuesday as stunned Britons tried to dry out their houses after the worst flooding in more than half a century. via Ann Arbor News
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Dec. 16--Jim Pitts was in the basement of his Normandy Park home, vacuuming half an inch of floodwater off the floor, when the call came Thursday night shortly after 7 o'clock.
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WELSH householders were faced with the heartbreaking job of clearing up yesterday after their homes had been flooded for the second time in under a year.
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People may be unable to return to flooded homes in South Yorkshire for months, a government minister says.
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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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Hundreds of homes in northwestern Indiana county were swamped by rising floodwaters after a storm dumped up to 5 inches of rain within a few hours, a county official said Thursday.
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British rail and road links were disrupted by flooding on Monday while residents were evacuated in northern England after rivers burst their banks, transport officials said.
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The father of a Hull man who died in last week's floods says fire crews did not do enough to save him.
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Thousands of people in Britain were left stranded in villages and towns Monday during the worst flooding in 60 years, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown linked to climate change.
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Heavy rainfall caused massive flooding across England on Monday, killing at least two people and leaving hundreds of people stranded in factories and offices, officials said.
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Parts of the UK could face flooding as severe gales meet this year's highest tides, weather forecasters warn.
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By Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 15--Getting people interested in storm water is draining.
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Some 350,000 homes in Gloucestershire will soon be without water because of flooding at a treatment works.
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Aug. 22 -- Firefighters and volunteers steered boats through streets awash in waist-deep water Wednesday, plucking residents and pets from porches as flooding that has swamped the Upper Midwest and Plains reached Ohio.