On Monday morning it said there had been a steady increase in river levels in south east Wales, but all were below the point of flooding.

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But we had nothing like the horrendous fires of Breezy Point, the flooding of Staten Island, the back wash that turned the streets of Hoboken, N.

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We also experienced about a 2 to 3 percentage point negative impact to sales due to supply disruptions related to the flooding in Thailand.

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It produced destruction on a different scale than that seen in neighborhoods such as Breezy Point, the Rockaway Peninsula enclave where a fire ravaged dozens of homes and flooding knocked bungalows off their foundations.

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Just so much was flooding out of the CIS (the ex-Soviet Union by this point) that that price had collapsed.

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As he filmed the flooding, his emotions changed as quickly as the tide outside his house, which at one point creeps under a second-floor door, prompting Jackley to bark, "Get the hell out!"

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