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After days of freezing rain, the rivers of northwestern Europe surged over their banks to engulf towns and cities in Germany, France, Belgium and-worst hit-the Netherlands. Thirty deaths were reported across Europe, with total damages estimated at more than $2 billion.
Even as flood waters began to subside this afternoon in the Netherlands after a week of storms across northern Europe, Dutch army troops were frantically trying to reinforce below-sea-level dikes in the southeastern part of the country.The danger: more than 300 miles of ancient, water-soaked dikes have...
The worst Northern California flooding in nearly a decade grew worse today as oozing mud swamped the state's southern half, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes and abandon cars in raging water. In the north, at least three people were killed when trees or power lines fell...
Weekend flooding from a series of Pacific storms forced several hundred people from their homes in northern California. Three rivers north of San Francisco are expected to overflow again later this week. Evacuations were underway from San Francisco Bay to Eureka, 225 miles to the north. Flooding was worst this...
On these same pages, The Crimson staff has called for more detailed background checks for prospective University employees. The recent arrest of Luis Rivers, a janitor who cleaned offices at the Law School, makes the need for checks even more clear. Rivera--who admitted to committing many of the thefts...