Word: raining
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Melting snow and rain caused basement flooding in many Harvard buildings, with the worst occuring in the sub-basement of the Fresman Union where the water-depth reached over two feet, Buildings and Grounds (B&G) officials said yesterday...
Tolleson said it was unusual to get both rain and 21 inches of snow within a few days. The flooding was the "first in the union during the 32 years I have worked here," he added...
Problems due to the melting snow and the rain were campus-wide, B&G officials said. The Wigglesworth and Leverett House basements were flooded for a short time, and many buildings experienced roof leaks...
Many of those, of course, were caused by gale-force winds and snow and ice storms. From the Canadian border to Virginia, the East Coast was battered by rain, sleet, snow and exceptionally high seas. New York City officials reported that 25% of Rockaway Beach was swept away by the pounding surf, while in Maine a combination of heavy rains and brutal winds wiped out coastal bridges and flooded shoreline cottages. Ohio Governor James Rhodes declared a snow emergency and called out 150 National Guardsmen to help Cleveland dig out from under massive drifts that had smothered the city...
...mercury plunged, too, in the Midwest, where temperatures dropped as low as -25° in Bismarck, N. Dak., and -17° in Minneapolis. But there and in the West, the weather was so bad that it turned out to be good: the rain and snow fell in such massive volume that the worrisome two-year-old drought seemed virtually to be over...