With summer, the flood of interns from colleges, law schools and grad schools makes the problem only more magnified.

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Many of the suburban Philadelphia areas were hit by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and by a flash flood last summer, said Marko Bourne, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.

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On a September night in 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, I remarked to a colleague that the tidal wave of news that was then beginning to flood Washington would not likely recede until the next summer.

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Crawley have paid transfer fees for Bradford's Scott Neilson, Salisbury duo winger Chris Flood and Matt Tubbs and Peterborough winger Sergio Torres this summer.

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This summer had already been particularly hot with heavy rains that caused outhouses to flood into several drinking wells.

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According to one source and long-time supporter of Anonymous, new folks who jumped into OpFacebook were almost certainly among the flood of kids who visit 4chan, widely seen as the home of Anonymous, every summer, itching to join a cyber attack.

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"Obviously flood risk is a very serious risk for communities as we've seen last week and over the summer, so it is a very precautionary approach and I think that must be right, " he added.

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