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Water Disasters: Ice Storms, Tsunamis & Floods | WebEcoist view story
9 votes- Submitted by sh0rtstak
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Water disasters around the world including floods, hail, ice storms, tsunamis, waves, and rain.
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Texas Watch: Hurricane Ike was a chance for Bush to show softer side | What Is Wrong With The World Today view story
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- 15 days ago
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WASHINGTON – One lesson the Bush administration learned the hard way after Hurricane Katrina is that when disaster strikes, the public expects a
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Doomsday Scenario in the Philippines view story
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- 24 days ago
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Nope! This stuff just doesn't happen in movies!
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Haitians 'screaming for help' after storms view story
11 votes- Submitted by Philonius
- about 1 month ago
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Haitian families scrambled onto rooftops and screamed for help Tuesday in a city flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and rescue convoys tried in vain to reach them.
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Hundreds of thousands trapped by India floods view story
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- about 1 month ago
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Stranded by hundreds of miles of floodwaters and trapped on rooftops and trees, desperate villagers stormed rescue boats on Sunday as they tried to escape the flooding that tore
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Hurricane Gustav 2008 - A Haitians inspect a home destroyed by flooding from Tropical Storm Gustav in Tabarre, north of Port-au- view story
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- about 1 month ago
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Tropical Storm Gustav was blamed on Thursday for at least 68 deaths in the Caribbean and U.S. forecasters said it could hit New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico oil fields as a potentially powerful hurricane next week.
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India flood evacuations continue view story
36 votes- Submitted by captainobvious22
- about 1 month ago
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In the northern Indian state of Bihar, thousands of people continue to be evacuated to higher grounds to escape the rising flood waters.
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Floods related to deforestation and conflict - Proof that green and peace go hand in hand view story
6 votes- Submitted by effective
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Weeks ago, floodwaters covered portions of Iligan City, including many residential sites in the downtown area. It is said that the main reason for the flooding was the continued denudation of the forests in Lanao del Sur.
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Indian army tries to reach flood victims view story
5 votes- Submitted by sdcalifornia
- about 1 month ago
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Hundreds of Indian army troops were using helicopters and boats Wednesday to deliver supplies and rescue villagers stranded by the worst flooding in decades, after the Kosi River breached an embankment in Nepal to the north.
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Kosi devastates Bihar; 2 million homeless-India view story
23 votes- Submitted by beijngblog
- about 1 month ago
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PATNA: This is India's Katrina, only the challenges could be bigger. Like the Mississippi breached the levee to drown an unsuspecting New Orleans in the US, the mighty Kosi river in north Bihar has broken its embankment to pick up a channel it had abandon

