Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as the Hezbollah and Hamas have arisen to rain terror in Israel, so have splinter groups of the anti-abortion movement formed to perpetrate violence in our own country. With pamphlets entitled "The Army of God" circulating among these people, their rhetoric is only a translation of what Islamic Jihad, another violent fundamentalist group, might publish...
This time it wasn't an earthquake or wildfires that ravaged California, but simple rain -- a merciless deluge. The downpour unleashed treacherous floods and mud slides up and down the state, killing 11 people, displacing thousands from their homes and wreaking property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Californians continued to mop up heavy rain damage, flash-flood warnings were issued today for the northern half of the state, where a new storm is expected to hit tonight. Another large storm system is moving toward southern California from the Pacific. The two-week onslaught of rain has taken ten lives and caused an estimated $300 million in damages...
...rains eased briefly today in California, but another big storm building off-shore is expected to hit the state this weekend. Over the past nine days, more than 16 inches of rain have fallen in California, causing massive flooding and mudslides that have closed highways and dissolved property. Governor Pete Wilson added ten more counties this morning to the previous 24 listed as state disaster areas. President Clinton, who plans to visit the state early next week, has offered federal assistance to the counties suffering the heaviest damage...
...counties north of San Francisco and near Los Angeles as disaster areas. He will visit the scene in the politically important state early next week, on a trip originally planned to mark the first anniversary of the Northridge earthquake. While storms abated throughout the state today, forecasters predicted more rain tonight in Southern California and said two other Pacific storms would hit the state by the weekend...