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...Northern California, but this time the rain and snow just would not stop. For nine days a series of storms lashed the area and caused floods, mudslides and avalanches from the coast to Colorado. By the time the clouds began to part late last week, the area's wettest weather in more than 30 years had left at least 18 dead and forced nearly 35,000 people to flee their homes...
...wettest of times, it was the driest of times. Devastating summer storms pounded places begging for relief from flooding, while the scorching sun broiled farmlands thirsting for rain. For the first time in three years, a full-blowing hurricane slammed onto the U.S. mainland, rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks...
...went for the wild, wet West. Barely recuperated from winter storms that pounded Pacific Coast piers and unloaded record snows by the driftful, the region has been drowning in one of the wettest springs ever. Swollen by heavy rain and snow runoff in the mountains, Utah's Great Salt Lake is projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property...
...soaking was not limited to the West, however. In Connecticut last week, a late spring snow, combined with 8.33 in. of rain that has fallen since the first of the month, made this the wettest April in the state's history. A freak mud slide crushed a house, three cars and two trucks in New Milford. And local officials in Farmington, Conn., airlifted 80 Ibs. of dry dog food to a puppy stranded on an island in the whirling waters of the Farmington River. In Vermont, a record-shattering April snowfall, topping 2 ft. in some areas, left more...
...what has been one of the wettest seasons on record for much of the Atlantic Seaboard. Boston has received its fair share of gray, days and torrential downpours. For some teams, rainy weather just moves practice or the meet indoors For others, it's "Play On" But for a few, it is unclear just what constitutes bad weather...