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Tens Of Thousands Still Without Power In Minn.
2013-06-24 17:32:31| Energy - Topix.net
Xcel Energy says the number of Minnesota customers without power is down to about 60,000.
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One dead, thousands without power after storms hit U.S. Midwest
2013-06-22 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: One woman is dead and more than 200,000 homes and businesses are without power in the upper Midwest on Saturday after severe thunderstorms struck parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with damaging winds, lightning and baseball-sized hail. The storms developed in the Dakotas on Friday and powered through Minnesota into Wisconsin, producing wind gusts up to 85 mph and large hailstones, some in excess of 4 inches in diameter, as well as short-lived tornadoes, said Brynn Kerr, a meteorologist...
Racing the Monsoon, India Rescues Thousands but 550 Die
2013-06-22 02:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: "On a war footing" India has mobilized military and civilian emergency personnel to rescue tens of thousands of people stranded outdoors in mountainous forests due to unseasonably early monsoon rains, flash floods and landslides. More than 550 people have died as four times the usual amount of rainfall swept across 40,000 square kilometers (15,440 square miles) of northern India this week. A rescued survivor is carried to safety in northern India, June 21, 2013 (Photo by National Disaster Response...
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Indian floods: thousands stranded in northern Himalayas
2013-06-21 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Indian air force has dropped food and medicine to assist tens of thousands of people trapped in up to 100 towns and villages cut off by monsoon rains and landslides in the northern Himalayas. Soldiers and other workers reopened dozens of roads by building makeshift bridges, accelerating the evacuation of nearly 62,000 people, said a Uttarakhand state spokesman, Amit Chandola. More than 2,000 vehicles carrying stranded Hindu pilgrims have travelled from the area since Thursday, he said....
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Indian landslides leave thousands trapped in valley
2013-06-20 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: As many as 4,000 people are believed trapped by landslides in a valley near a Hindu shrine in the Indian Himalayas, days after floods killed more than 100 people. Helicopters have ferried rescue workers and doctors along with equipment, food and medicine to Kedarnath in the state of Uttarakhand, the nearest town. Most of those stranded are Hindu pilgrims who were visiting four shrines. Amit Chandola, a state spokesman, said authorities had so far been unable to reach eight villages feared washed...
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