Felix could cause massive flooding
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Felix, downgraded to tropical depression status early Wednesday, was rapidly weakening as it crossed the mountains of Central America less than a day after making landfall as a fierce Category 5 hurricane. The once-powerful storm could produce heavy rains for the region, forecasters said.
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The rain-swollen Rio Grande River threatened to push through an earthen dam and cause flooding in El Paso, prompting evacuation orders for residents, officials said.
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The huge scale of the flooding threat facing Britain was revealed by the Government yesterday.
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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Hurricane Felix gathered strength yesterday and pounded Grenada with heavy rain and wind, snapping small boats loose from their moorings and toppling utility poles on its route toward the Caribbean island of Aruba.
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Hurricane Felix, with top winds near 155 mph, is an "extremely dangerous" hurricane as it nears the coast of northeastern Nicaragua Tuesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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Much of Britain has been under flood alert as heavy rain sweeps across the country.
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Authorities are crediting heavily forested areas along the Caribbean coast with sapping the energy of Hurricane Felix when it made landfall earlier this week.
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Tropical Storm Felix could become a  hurricane Saturday night or on Sunday and may be a Category 3  hurricane by the middle of next week, the U.S. National  Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Felix intensified rapidly over the warm waters of the Caribbean on Sunday as it passed to the north of the Netherlands Antilles islands and aimed for Central America or Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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Hurricane Felix strengthened on Sunday into a Category 4 storm, the second-highest level on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale, as it passed to the north of Aruba and aimed for Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Sunday and churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.
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Tropical Storm Felix, churning near the Windward Islands, became the sixth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season as its winds reached 40 miles per hour Saturday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Felix strengthened on Sunday  into a Category 4 storm, the second-highest level on the  five-step Saffir Simpson scale, as it passed to the north of  Aruba and aimed for Mexico&#39;s Yucatan Peninsula, the U.S.  National Hurricane Center said.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The number of people killed when Hurricane Felix tore into the border area of Nicaragua and Honduras this week has jumped to at least 130, a Nicaraguan rescue official said on Friday.
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Hurricane Felix intensified into a "major" Category 3 hurricane on Sunday as it churned over the warm waters of the Caribbean, aimed at Central America or Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, U.S. weather forecasters said.
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ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm yesterday and churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.
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Tropical Storm Henriette dumped heavy rains in this Pacific resort city, flooding streets and prompting officials to close more than 1,000 schools, while Tropical Storm Felix formed Saturday in the Caribbean.