Word: flooded
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...trouble. Although it insisted that the reactor, containing 100 Ibs. of nuclear fuel, would burn up in the atmosphere, U.S. officials said that some radioactive debris would reach the ground. As a precaution, they mobilized special teams to gather the "hot" material. Meanwhile, Soviet ground controllers were radioing a flood of signals to the errant craft, which is tumbling wildly through space at an altitude of about 150 miles, in an effort to control it. Unless they succeed, Pentagon sources said, Cosmos 1402 will make a fiery, meteor-like re-entry into the atmosphere before month's end, possibly...
Aging bridges are particularly prevalent in Vermont, where a flood in 1927 swept away roughly half of the state's picturesque covered bridges. The steel spans that replaced them are past their expected life of 50 years, meaning that most are already in need of replacement. Meanwhile, loads across them are severely restricted. In the multiriver region of metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1,129 of the 5,000 or so bridges require repairs that would cost more than $1 billion. When loads over the Thompson Run Bridge in suburban Duquesne were reduced to five tons in 1978, the United States Steel...
After heavy storms two years ago, the Salt River nearly topped Arizona's Stewart Mountain Dam, threatening to flood parts of Phoenix. State officials even feared a total collapse of Stewart. "We felt it was imminent," recalls Reid Teeples , a Salt River project official...
...Missouri hamlet 25 miles southwest of St. Louis, are confused and frightened. In recent weeks they have been hit with a one-two punch that leaves them wondering where to turn next. First, on Dec. 5, the waters of the Meramec swept through the town in the worst flood in Times Beach's history. The town, which sprang up in the 1920s as a summer resort and later became a permanent working-class community, is now a picture of near desolation. A muddy brown film coats the small clapboard houses and trailer homes, many of which are ripped apart...
...mixed with the deadly poison dioxin, sprayed on unpaved streets a decade ago as a seemingly harmless means to hold down dust, had left dangerous concentrations of the chemical in the soil. But since the EPA samples were taken before Dec. 5, it is still unclear whether the flood waters washed away much of the chemical, making Times Beach safer, or unearthed more dioxin, spreading it throughout the town. The EPA plans new tests, scheduled for this week...