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- NATION, Page 55American NotesDISASTERSWater, Water Everywhere
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- No one dreams of a wet Christmas, but that's what it was for
- thousands of Texans last week. Record-breaking December rains
- sent more than half a dozen rivers overflowing their banks,
- flooding homes, inundating farmland and drowning cattle in the
- central and southeastern parts of the state. The fast-rising
- waters left at least 15 people dead and caused damage estimated
- in the millions.
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- Texans tried to keep the flood from dampening their
- seasonal spirits. More than 1,000 people in Dallas had Christmas
- dinner at Red Cross mobile kitchens, where they received special
- holiday gifts: scrub brushes, buckets and mops. In the Colorado
- River community of Wharton, more than a dozen flood victims
- spent the holiday in a school gym. "This is a Christmas I'll
- remember, all right," remarked Evelyn Shanklin, 89. "I didn't
- have to cook."
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