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Climate change: hard rain, hard truths

2014-02-14 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Editorial: Canoes, community spirit and sandbags; the very occasional watery tragedy, and heartening tales of rescued old ladies. These have been the currents of British conversation in recent days, or at least of those parts of it not directly dealing with the appalling realities of being submerged. Marvelling from a safe distance at Blackpool sea-foam that looks just like snow, or tittering at troops who turn up without knowing what to do, the general mood has been "oh, to be alive in such times". Meanwhile...

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United Kingdom: Torrential rain, high winds and floods cause transport chaos and power cuts

2014-02-13 09:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: More than 80,000 homes were still without power supplies and there was continued disruption on the road and rail networks on Thursday in the wake of hurricane-force winds that left at least one person dead. The Energy Networks Association said engineers had reconnected 145,000 homes and businesses following storm damage and would continue to work throughout Thursday, while train operators were also striving to restore a number of services hit by heavy rain and trees and debris strewn across tracks....

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Residential Rain Garden

2014-02-12 20:12:17| PortlandOnline

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Check out 33 New Rain Gardens in SE Portland!

2014-02-12 19:41:05| PortlandOnline

Environmental Services recently partnered with 33 home and business owners in southeast Portland to install rain gardens that manage stormwater from their roofs. A big thanks to all these people for working with us for clean rivers!

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