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- NATION, Page 25American NotesDISASTERSAn Almost Biblical Flood
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- Residents of Alabama, Georgia and the Florida panhandle must
- have thought of Noah as up to 16 in. of rain poured down in 48
- hours. In Elba, Ala. (pop. 4,355), the torrent breached the
- levee holding off the Pea River. No one was killed, but 3,000
- had to evacuate the area. Elsewhere, bridges washed away, and
- caskets floated up from the rain-loosened soil of a Selma
- cemetery.
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- One concern for waterlogged residents: a flotilla of water
- moccasins in the flood tides. "Snakes are trying to find a dry
- piece of ground, just like everyone else," said Greg McWhorter
- of Alabama's emergency-management agency. "They'll settle up
- in the top part of your closet. We're warning people to be on
- the alert."
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