Flooding Forces 5,500 Costa Ricans from Homes
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - Heavy rain and flooding  have forced the evacuation of more than 5,000 Costa Ricans, and  left four people missing.
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A heavy rainstorm forced Costa Rican lawmakers to abandon their session on Wednesday as water poured through a leaking roof onto the Congress floor.
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Flooding prompted evacuation orders Friday in the same neighborhood for the second time in a little more than a month, the mayor's office said.
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Stranded passengers from the devastated towns of Real and Infanta rush to board an outrigger boat December 6. Food and water shortage forced residents to flee to other province and Manila as roads to Real and other towns destroyed by flash floods and
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Two young brothers were missing from a home near a fast-moving stream Wednesday, while across the state, six people were evacuated when their home was threatened by a river swollen by Tropical Storm Ernesto.
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A boat ride with emergency workers Tuesday revealed the hardships residents are suffering five days after torrential rains unleashed floodwaters that have killed 44 people and chased hundreds of thousands from their homes in this city of 12 million.
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The government of Jamaica has ordered half a million people to leave coastal areas ahead of the expected arrival of Hurricane Ivan.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Floods from Tropical  Storm Jeanne killed 57 people in Haiti and many more were  missing in the Caribbean nation on Sunday as the storm swirled  in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas, a civil protection  official said.
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Floods killed five people in Texas including a five-year-old girl and her grandmother who were swept away after torrential rain lashed the north of the state, local media reported.
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More than 48,000 homes have power restored in one of the worst-hit areas as floods recede.
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Quang Tri, Nov. 27 (VNA)- Six days of continual rain beginning Monday has caused floods in most of central provinces, claiming the lives of 29 people, injuring four others and causing one to be reported missing.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Flooding triggered by   monsoon rains in the past few days have left 1.5 million people   homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in the   eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Sunday.
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Police name a family of five who are feared to have drowned during violent storms in the Western Isles.
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Severe storms crossing the   south-central United States late on Friday and early on   Saturday produced heavy rains and flooding and caused at least   five deaths, local officials said.
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Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Sunday as it entered the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.
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At least five people have been killed in severe floods in Indonesia's capital and surrounding areas with more than 100,000 people left homeless after days of torrential rain, a disaster official said on Saturday.
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Around 50,000 people are evacuated from eastern Comilla district after a dam bursts on a rain-swollen river.