Woman's safe haven from storms fails her
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Tonya Selken's home sat in a dip along a ridge on Dog Mountain, where they had a sweeping view of rolling horse pasture and the misty Ozark foothills in the distance. But she didn't choose these two of her grandfather's 210 acres just for the scenery.
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Kim Noland can't wait to get back into her home, the one floodwaters chased her out of a dozen days ago.
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Huddled near her fireplace, Marla Carter wondered when Skiatook will be mentioned in news reports about the storm-related power outages that have left her without electricity for the past 10 days.
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The majority of homes out there couldn't be rebuilt via insurance.
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The Villages today is a shambles. The community that describes itself as a place "to enjoy life as you've always dreamed" is now a living nightmare. After suspected tornadoes ripped through central Florida, resident Jack Hurst said: "Within a few yards, there were houses that had no roof, no walls." Christopher Patton at the emergency operations center said: "We have complete devastation."
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By Anna Jeys  IT wasn't exactly the right weather as rain threatened to put a damp-ener on the launch of Birmingham's latest beach.
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By Barbara Dunn  WHAT sort of principles are we instilling in our young today?   I, along with other bungalow-dwellers, fell victim to floods and awoke to find our homes under water. I was trapped inside unable to get out until the fire brigade arrived.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - Jennifer Sneed was packed and ready for the trip to a hospital to have her baby this week, but she wasn't ready for a snowstorm.
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State officials today urged people to stay where they were because of the possibility of flooding, but not everyone heeded the warning.
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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So let's take this mother by storm.
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The price of paradise is becoming too steep for some residents of A Garden Walk mobile home park, a community ravaged three times in about a year by tornadoes and hurricanes.
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Winds gusting up to 110 miles an hour knocked down trees and damaged structures.
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After three nights in a freezing, powerless home, Jeanetta Plunkett couldn't take any more. She picked up her two young grandchildren and sought refuge at a shelter for people who lost electricity after a huge ice storm.
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She has fled her hometown and moved from state to state, struggling to outrun a merciless spotlight and recover from a jumbled evening of pain and violation that she insists took place.
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LONDON: A 37 year-old British woman who received a marriage proposal on Saturday lost her two small children and future husband less than 24 hours later when they were swept away in floodwater that devastated southern Asia, her family said.
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Almost 1,000 people have been killed and many more are missing after very bad storms in the Philippines. And more bad weather is on the way, with Typhoon Nanmadol already making it difficult for rescuers to help people left homeless by earlier storms.