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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (860033)5/26/2015 1:45:25 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (2) of 1577261
 
My sympathies to Houstonians and Texans everywhere.......looks like Gov. Perry over-prayed.....

Floods Bring Death and Destruction to Texas and Oklahoma
By MANNY FERNANDEZ and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAMAY 26, 2015


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Heavy rains in Texas inundated parts of Houston on Tuesday, closing roadways including Interstate 45. Credit Aaron M. Sprecher/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images



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HOUSTON — Flooding brought Houston to a near-standstill Tuesday and killed as many as five people there, sending normally tame rivers and bayous surging past their banks, inundating streets and homes, and leaving roadways littered with thousands of abandoned, ruined cars.

Punishing thunderstorms had left at least five other people dead over the weekend in Texas and Oklahoma, and a dozen or more missing. Recovery teams resumed the search Tuesday for 12 people who are missing after a rain-swollen river carried a vacation home in Wimberley, Tex., off its foundation and slammed it into a bridge downstream.

Floodwaters from those storms flowed downstream from central Texas into the Houston area Monday night and Tuesday morning, bolstered by as much as 10 inches of rain that lashed the area overnight.


Continue reading the main story By Reuters on Publish Date May 26, 2015.
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