Woman's safe haven from storms fails her
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Tonya Selken's home sat in a dip along a ridge on Dog Mountain, where they had a sweeping view of rolling horse pasture and the misty Ozark foothills in the distance. But she didn't choose these two of her grandfather's 210 acres just for the scenery.
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The dilemma faced by one doctor after the disasters in Asia: stay with her family or lend her expertise.
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Those who had the money to flee Hurricane Ivan ran into hours-long traffic jams. Those too poor to leave the city had to find their own shelter &#151; a policy that was eventually reversed, but only a few hours before the deadly storm struck land.
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About one in three people living in Southern coastal areas said they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders if a storm threatened their community, up from about one in four last year, according to a new poll.
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NEW ORLEANS - Fleeing to safety was not an option for some people as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge the below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Latonya Hill, who waited out the dangerous storm sitting on her stoop Tuesday, said the official pleas for residents to pack up and leave meant little to her...
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She has fled her hometown and moved from state to state, struggling to outrun a merciless spotlight and recover from a jumbled evening of pain and violation that she insists took place.
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Kim Noland can't wait to get back into her home, the one floodwaters chased her out of a dozen days ago.
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The International Red Cross says more than a million people are without basic shelter five weeks after a devastating cyclone struck Bangladesh's low-lying coast.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Kathy Tooker has staked out a  space for herself and her four kids on the linoleum floor of a  Red Cross shelter and filled it with an inflatable mattress,  gym mats, a crib for the baby and bags of clothes and toys.
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LONDON: A 37 year-old British woman who received a marriage proposal on Saturday lost her two small children and future husband less than 24 hours later when they were swept away in floodwater that devastated southern Asia, her family said.
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Residents salvaged their belongings across an area of Central Florida devastated by tornado-bearing thunderstorms.
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HELOTES, Tex. -- The smoke comes and goes with the breeze, but some days it blankets Deanna Rodriguez's neighborhood, covering cars in grimy ash and seeping inside homes. Some days, when the wind blows from the south, her house becomes almost uninhabitable.
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Huddled near her fireplace, Marla Carter wondered when Skiatook will be mentioned in news reports about the storm-related power outages that have left her without electricity for the past 10 days.
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State officials today urged people to stay where they were because of the possibility of flooding, but not everyone heeded the warning.
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By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 27--GROVES -- Melody Miller's days of living in a FEMA trailer in front of her Hurricane Rita-damaged home are numbered.
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The Castle Rock, Wash., woman just wanted to file for bankruptcy protection so she could keep her house after her spouse was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Almost 1,000 people have been killed and many more are missing after very bad storms in the Philippines. And more bad weather is on the way, with Typhoon Nanmadol already making it difficult for rescuers to help people left homeless by earlier storms.