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flooding stories: 85 news summaries

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Flooding Halts NYC Mass Transit

Aug 8, 07 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York City public transportation ground to a standstill early this morning after violent thunderstorms tore up trees, damaged cars, and flooded underground train tracks, halting or delaying every single subway line, reports the New York Times. Flights at all three major airports in the metropolitan area were pushed back... More »

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weather • New York City • subway • transit • storm • flooding • public transportation

Oxford Evacuates as Water Rises

UK flood disaster continues

Jul 25, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of residents were evacuated from their Oxford homes today as water levels along the Thames neared their height. In the worst flooding the UK has seen in 60 years, hundreds of thousands are without drinking water, and power plants supplying many more are threatened. More »

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Gordon Brown • Oxford • flood • flooding • Gloucestershire • rationing • relief • Britain

UK Floods Linked to Warming

Jul 24, 07 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Central Britain is under water after record rains, and scientists are now saying that the heavy downfall is caused by man-made global warming. Britain's sodden summer, with swollen rivers, thousand homeless and water plants failing, has been caused by a southward shift of the jet stream. Not unprecedented, the Independent... More »

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global warming • United Kingdom • flooding • nature • rain • Tewkesbury • Britain

Mice Plague Chinese Countryside

Floods bring massive rodent problem

Jul 16, 07 8:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Flooding in central and southern China—the worst in 50 years—is displacing more than thousands of residents: Billions of mice, washed out of their burrows, have swarmed across acres of Chinese farmland, destroying crops and posing serious health hazards to residents. Pest control efforts have been largely ineffective so... More »

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China • agriculture • epidemic • rats • flooding

CenTex Floods Worst in 50 Years

Jul 6, 07 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas has Noah beat, with 44 days of near continuous rain. For the first time in 50 years all five major rivers  – the Brazos, Colorado, Nueces, Red, and Trinity are at flood stage.  State and federal governments are at the ready.  And they now have the heavy... More »

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Texas • Austin • flooding • Rick Perry

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