Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changes HUDS had in mind meant beefing up the central kitchen serving the River Houses, located on the floors below Eliot and Kirkland and connected to the other Houses by tunnels...
...When River House dwellers returned to campus this past week, some found more than the standard- issue desk and bookshelf waiting for them in their rooms...
Four days later--the day after Memorial Day--their North Carolina unit's Marines gathered in their chapel at New River air station. "Semper Fidelis," they intoned solemnly before 700 mourners. "We will never forget you." But despite the service's long and treasured tradition of mutual trust and fierce loyalty, forgetting their men is precisely what the Marines seem to have done in this case...
...officials were bracing for four more inches rain from Tropical Storm Harvey, which was set to sweep through western Florida Monday night. Flash flood warnings are being issued ? and flooding is one thing North Carolina is becoming awfully familiar with these days. More overflow is expected from the Tar River, which crested Saturday in Tarboro at 43 feet, 24 feet above flood stage. The Neuse and Cape Fear rivers, meanwhile, weren't even expected to crest until Tuesday. And when a river floods in superfarm country, water is the least of your problems...
...Smell that? Waste lagoons at several of North Carolina?s huge corporate pig farms have overflowed, and at least one has ruptured, spilling 2 million gallons of sewage into a tributary of the Northeast Cape Fear River. The entire water supplies of Pitt and Edgecombe counties have been contaminated, and four more inches from Harvey isn?t likely to help. New Jersey is facing similar problems ? 1 million residents were told to boil their water this weekend after flooding overwhelmed a treatment plant ? but the problems of an agricultural state are special. At least 110,000 hogs and a million...