Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
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President Barack Obama formally declared an emergency in Pennsylvania early Friday, adding to a previous declaration covering New York state, authorizing federal agencies to coordinate disaster relief efforts in order to "save lives and to protect property and public health and safety," according to a White House statement.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee poured water on top of the already soaked Northeast on Thursday, closing hundreds of roads and forcing evacuation orders for more than 100,000 people from the Susquehanna River's worst flooding in nearly 40 years.Most of the evacuations were ordered in and around Wilkes-Barre, where the levee system is just high enough to hold back the river if it crests at the predicted level. Even if the levees hold, 800 to 900 unprotected homes were in danger. If they fail, thousands of buildings could be lost."This is a scary situation," said Stephen Bekanich, Luzerne County's emergency management director. He and other officials were confident ...Northern stretches of the swollen Susquehanna River began receding Friday after days of rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee flooded communities from Vir...
Remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumps rain in areas struggling to recover from Hurricane Irene
Gulf Coast bracing for more flooding from Tropical Storm Lee
Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene swept away some bales of hay Doug Turner grew to feed his dairy cows and ripped open others, contaminating them with muddy water. ...
In a normal year, Della and Biondo Antonello would have decked their once-immaculate home with strings of festive Christmas lights and trimmed their tree with orname...
America smashed the record for billion-dollar weather disasters this year with a deadly dozen — and counting.With an almost biblical onslaught of twisters, floods, s...
The world last year wasn't quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said Thursday, but it continues a general trend of rising ...
A roaring wildfire raced unchecked Monday through rain-starved farm and ranchland in Central Texas, destroying nearly 500 homes during a rapid advance fanned in part...
Wildfires continued to spread Sunday across East and Central Texas due partly to high winds caused by Tropical Storm Lee and the passage of a cool front, authorities...
One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in Texas history left more than 1,000 homes in ruins Tuesday and stretched the state's firefighting ranks to the limit...
Scorching temperatures, strong winds and dry vegetation are turning Texas wildfires into fast and furious dangers that hop from place to place within hours, even min...
As the soggy East tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn't come, you might ask: Isn't there some way to ship all that water from here to ...
Bands of rain from Tropical Storm Lee were pelting the Gulf Coast on Saturday as the storm's center trudged slowly toward land, where businesses were already beginni...
The Gulf Coast lives for tourism dollars, and no where is that more true than in Biloxi, Miss., where instead of crowds, Tropical Storm Lee came for the Labor Day we...
As the leftovers from Tropical Storm Lee brought welcome wet weather to farmers in the Southeast, many areas of the East Coast were getting soaked Wednesday, bringin...
Disorganized yet deadly, the leftovers from Tropical Storm Lee spread farther inland Tuesday, soaking much of the East Coast. Areas still drying out from Irene were ...
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Federal agriculture officials have cleared a Pennsylvania zoo of wrongdoing in the deaths of two bison during September's massive flooding.The Patriot-News of Harris...
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