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Tropical Storm Kills Two In Houston, Halts Flights, Floods Roads
Authorities reported the first death linked to Tropical Storm Imelda, which dumped torrential rains over the Houston-area, while rescuers in boats pulled hundreds of people from flooded cars, the city's airport temporarily halted flights and tens of thousands of people lost power on Thursday.
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'Snakes In Water, Spiders Crawling Up Walls': Texas Battles Harvey; 44 Dead
A flood-hit southeast Texas city lost its drinking water supply and police and soldiers rescued thousands still stranded on Thursday after powerful storm Harvey killed 44 people and displaced more than a million on the Gulf Coast.
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22 Confirmed Dead From Hurricane Harvey, Houston Mayor Imposes Nightly Curfew
The biggest rainstorm in the history of the continental United States finally began to move away from Houston on Tuesday, as the remnants of Hurricane Harvey and its endless, merciless rain bands spun east to menace Louisiana instead.
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'He Could Hear Kids Screaming': Couple, Great-Grandchildren Feared Dead In Houston Floods
Ric Saldivar, 53, has a big family - lots of brothers, spread over east Houston and beyond. After floods stranded them in their respective homes, a chain of phone calls between the brothers and their wives informed Saldivar that, suddenly, his family may be much smaller.
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Texas Mom Killed By Police After She Shot Two Daughters To Death, Police Say
When police pulled up to the manicured Houston subdivision Friday evening, after a flood of 911 calls directing them there, they found two young women lying in the street, their bodies bleeding from bullet wounds.
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Houston Deluged, 5 Reported Dead In Texas Floods
Torrential rainfall totaling 18 inches (46 cm) pummeled Houston on Monday, causing floods that were believed responsible for five deaths and that snarled transport and turned roads into lakes in the fourth most-populous US city.
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New Flood Warning for Texas, Where Storms Have Killed 16
The National Weather Service issued a new flash flood watch today for large parts of Texas, where severe weather this week has left at least 16 people dead, damaged thousands of structures and flooded cities such as Houston and Austin.
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Heavy Rains Hit Texas as Number of Deaths Rises from Floods
Storms dumped rain on parts of Texas of Wednesday, bringing more runoff to swollen waterways that spilled their banks this week in places such as Houston, where floods have left five people dead and caused chaos in the fourth most-populous US city.
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Tropical Storm Kills Two In Houston, Halts Flights, Floods Roads
Authorities reported the first death linked to Tropical Storm Imelda, which dumped torrential rains over the Houston-area, while rescuers in boats pulled hundreds of people from flooded cars, the city's airport temporarily halted flights and tens of thousands of people lost power on Thursday.
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'Snakes In Water, Spiders Crawling Up Walls': Texas Battles Harvey; 44 Dead
A flood-hit southeast Texas city lost its drinking water supply and police and soldiers rescued thousands still stranded on Thursday after powerful storm Harvey killed 44 people and displaced more than a million on the Gulf Coast.
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22 Confirmed Dead From Hurricane Harvey, Houston Mayor Imposes Nightly Curfew
The biggest rainstorm in the history of the continental United States finally began to move away from Houston on Tuesday, as the remnants of Hurricane Harvey and its endless, merciless rain bands spun east to menace Louisiana instead.
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'He Could Hear Kids Screaming': Couple, Great-Grandchildren Feared Dead In Houston Floods
Ric Saldivar, 53, has a big family - lots of brothers, spread over east Houston and beyond. After floods stranded them in their respective homes, a chain of phone calls between the brothers and their wives informed Saldivar that, suddenly, his family may be much smaller.
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Texas Mom Killed By Police After She Shot Two Daughters To Death, Police Say
When police pulled up to the manicured Houston subdivision Friday evening, after a flood of 911 calls directing them there, they found two young women lying in the street, their bodies bleeding from bullet wounds.
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Houston Deluged, 5 Reported Dead In Texas Floods
Torrential rainfall totaling 18 inches (46 cm) pummeled Houston on Monday, causing floods that were believed responsible for five deaths and that snarled transport and turned roads into lakes in the fourth most-populous US city.
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New Flood Warning for Texas, Where Storms Have Killed 16
The National Weather Service issued a new flash flood watch today for large parts of Texas, where severe weather this week has left at least 16 people dead, damaged thousands of structures and flooded cities such as Houston and Austin.
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Heavy Rains Hit Texas as Number of Deaths Rises from Floods
Storms dumped rain on parts of Texas of Wednesday, bringing more runoff to swollen waterways that spilled their banks this week in places such as Houston, where floods have left five people dead and caused chaos in the fourth most-populous US city.
