Posts Tagged ‘rain’

September 3 2010

Rain, waves whip N.C. islands as Earl gets closer

Hurricane Earl weakened to a Category 2 storm but rain and 110 mph winds were bearing down on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and threatening the Eastern Seaboard.

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September 2 2010

Earl weakens as rain, waves whip N.C. islands

Hurricane Earl weakens to a Category 2 storm with rain and 110 mph winds bearing down on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and threatening the Eastern Seaboard.

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September 2 2010

Earl weakens but rain, waves hit N.C. islands

Hurricane Earl has weakened further but it’s still a Category 3 storm with 115 mph winds bearing down on North Carolina’s coast, the National Hurricane Center warned Thursday afternoon.

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September 2 2010

Earl’s rain, waves start to hit N.C. islands

The last ferry pulled away from North Carolina’s vulnerable barrier islands Thursday, while bands of rain moved in and waves kicked up to 14 feet as Hurricane Earl and its 125 mph winds spun closer.

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August 19 2010

Tenn. rain washes away home, derails train

People look over a creek that washed away the bridge during a flash flood on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 in Cookeville, Tenn. Heavy rainfall has soaked some of the same parts of Middle Tennessee that were inundated with severe flooding in May, and forecasters are warning that more rain is expected. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)Drenching rains swept away a home, trapped drivers in their vehicles and derailed a train in Tennessee, and forecasters expect more heavy showers to fall Thursday over the Southeast.


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August 18 2010

Tenn. flash flooding reported, more rain coming

Lt Chris Westmoreland and Justin Birdwell of the Cookeville Fire Department rescue 88-year-old Jarrell Blankenship from her home as rains flooded Cookeville and Putnam County, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Herald-Citizen, Ty Kernea)Heavy rainfall has soaked some of the same parts of Middle Tennessee that were inundated with severe flooding in May, and forecasters are warning that more rain is expected.


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August 18 2010

School building collapse in rain kills 18 in India

A mudslide triggered by heavy rains demolished a school building in northern India on Wednesday, killing at least 18 children, an official said.

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August 13 2010

Rain refreshes Moscow, but wildfires still burning

People walk at the Moscow Red Square, Thursday, enjoying the respite from the smog due to a change in the wind direction. Heavy downpours cooled the Russian capital after weeks of no rain and unprecedented heat, but dozens of wildfires still raged around Moscow on Friday and a new blaze was spotted near the country’s top nuclear research center.


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August 7 2010

More rain lashes Pakistan, deepening flood crisis

People rescued from flooded villages  wait for food relief in Muzaffargarh near Multan in central Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Stormy weather grounded helicopters carrying emergency supplies to Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Friday as the worst monsoon rains in decades brought more destruction to a nation already reeling from Islamist violence.(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)More rain soaked flood-ravaged Pakistan on Saturday and even heavier downpours were forecast for coming days, deepening a crisis in which hard-line Islamists have rushed to fill gaps in the government’s patchy response.






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July 29 2010

Rain slows hunt for air crash bodies in Pakistan

People carry a casket of a plane crash victim during a funeral prayer in Karachi, Pakistan, on Thursday. Anguished relatives sought the remains of loved ones killed in Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash, some grieving at a hospital collecting bodies Thursday and others joining the recovery effort at the hillside crash site laden by heavy rain and mud.






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