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  • While more than 60,000 homeless from hundreds of flood-ravaged villages spent a miserable Christmas in jam-packed schools and gymnasiums, search teams retrieved an additional 150 bodies from the sea as far as 60 miles 100 kilometers from worst-hit Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense.

    Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Kent Conrad and John Hoeven and Rep. Rick Berg had pushed for the aid in a call to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and said they hoped it would be extended to other flood-ravaged counties.

    Minot braces for more rain as river nears crest 2011

  • Natural disasters slammed cities across the nation's midsection and South last summer, but few have faced the challenges of this flood-ravaged city of 41,000: a severe housing and labor shortage sparked by the nearby oil boom and now worsened by the flood.

    Flood Victims Languish in Oil Boomtown Jack Nicas 2012

  • While more than 60,000 homeless from hundreds of flood-ravaged villages spent a miserable Christmas in jam-packed schools and gymnasiums, search teams retrieved an additional 150 bodies from the sea as far as 60 miles 100 kilometers from worst-hit Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense.

    Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The gallery will house "NO Lab," a multimedia exhibition based on the rebuilding of flood-ravaged New Orleans.

    For 2011, Art HK Grows Up and Goes Local Alexandra A. Seno 2011

  • Price declines have been worse in flood-ravaged Brisbane and mining boomtown Perth.

    The Shine Is Off Asian Properties Polly Hui 2011

  • Associated Press FEMA representatives tour flood-ravaged Duryea, Pa., last week.

    Government Shutdown Possible Over Disaster Aid Naftali Bendavid 2011

  • Although not expected to see the worst of the storm, flood-ravaged Binghamton, N.Y., was bracing for whatever rain fell: "Even if you do get some locally heavy rain, some of the infrastructure has been so heavily damaged — culverts, ditches — it won't have the carrying capacity it had two weeks ago due to damage from Tropical Storm Lee," said Mitch Gilp of the National Weather Service at Binghamton.

    From N.C. to Mass., East Coast braces for more rain 2011

  • The state has set up a fund offering flood-ravaged businesses $10 million in low-interest loans, with no payment required in the first year.

    Fixing Up for the Fall Show Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • Heavy rains soaked parts of the upper Midwest Thursday, forcing evacuations in one flood-ravaged Wisconsin town where 20,000 sandbags were dispatched to rivers and creeks that had overflowed.

    Arcadia, Wisconsin Flooding Forces Downtown Evacuations The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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