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A weakened Lee still poses flood threat in South (AP)

AP – While Lee’s winds have lost some of their punch, forecasters warn that its slow-moving rain clouds pose a worse flooding threat to inland areas with hills or mountains in the coming days.

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Lee lashes Gulf coast, flood threat expands inland (AP)

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, September 2, 2011 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds cover most of the Gulf of Mexico.  Tropical Depression Thirteen is now located about 240 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River with maximum sustained winds up to 35 mph.  The system is expected to intensify as it continues moving northward and over the northern Gulf Coast. To the east, Katia has decreased to a Tropical Storm with maximum sustained winds at 70 mph.  The storm is now located about 830 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands and continues moving northwestward at 16 mph.  (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP – The center of Tropical Storm Lee made landfall Sunday on the Louisiana coast, bringing up to a foot of rain, spinoff tornadoes and fears of inland flash flooding to the Deep South and beyond.


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New flood dangers as East Coast reels from Irene (AP)

Corrinne Levin, left, kisses her daughter Jillianne Davis, who's home was destroyed by floodwaters rustling from Tropical Storm Irene, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, in Woodford, Vt. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – As emergency airlift operations brought ready-to-eat meals and water to Vermont residents left isolated and desperate, states along the Eastern Seaboard continued to be battered by the after effects of Irene, the destructive hurricane turned tropical storm.


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Flood worries and some relief in Irene’s wake (AP)

Sixth Avenue near Radio City Music Hall is empty as Tropical Storm Irene hits in New York, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Seawater surged into the streets of Manhattan on Sunday as Irene slammed into New York, downgraded from a hurricane but still unleashing furious wind and rain. The flooding threatened Wall Street and the heart of the global financial network. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP – Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared.


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Flash flood kills 4, including mother, daughters

Flash flooding in Pittsburgh killed a mother and her two young daughters after their car was overwhelmed by a wall of water on one of the city’s main roads, officials said.

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Flood surge raises fears of Mont. oil spill spread (AP)

Cleanup crews work to clear oil from along side the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Mont., Tuesday July 5, 2011.   The Yellowstone River swelled above flood levels Tuesday, raising fears that the surge will push thousands of gallons of oil spilled from a broken pipeline into undamaged areas and prolong cleanup efforts as crude seeps downstream and into back channels.   (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP – Crews cleaning up an oil spill on the Yellowstone River faced difficult conditions Tuesday as the scenic waterway rose above flood stage and stoked fears that surging currents could push crude into undamaged areas and back channels vital to the river’s prized fishery.


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Sand shortage causes concern for flood fighters (AP)

FILE - In this June 14, 2011 file photo, the Fort Calhoun nuclear power station, in Fort Calhoun, Neb., is surrounded by flood waters from the Missouri River. The pictures of a Nebraska nuclear power plant were startling: Floodwaters from the swollen Missouri River had risen nearly to the reactor building, with the potential to climb even higher. Coming only a few months after Japan's nuclear disaster, the Associated Press images alarmed many people who saw them earlier this week. But nuclear regulators and the utility that runs the Fort Calhoun reactor say there is little cause for immediate concern. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP – The supply of sand used to fill hundreds of thousands of bags needed to fight off the swollen Missouri River is running low after weeks of relentless flooding. It’s a problem that could get worse as the river is expected to remain high through August, making it unsafe to gather sand from the easiest place to get it: the river itself.


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