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Workers place sandbags on walls holding back floodwaters in Clarksville
19 Jun 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Workers place sandbags on walls holding back floodwaters in Clarksville, Missouri, June 19, 2008. The $4 billion balance in the federal government's disaster relief fund should be "more than enough" to deal with the flood disaster in the Midwest, the White House said on Thursday, as President George W. Bush surveyed the region's worst flooding in 15 years. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES)
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A man leaves from a window of his flooded house in the uninhabited and flooded town in southern Chile June 25, 2008. Chaiten residents returned to the town for the first ...




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