In Sopchoppy, authorities rescued 57 people from homes surrounded by rising water, said Keith Blackmar of the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office.

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Outside I could see a half dozen wooden stilt homes surrounded by muddy patches and palm trees, a clothesline hung with shirts and sarongs, tree branch kindling stacked under a storage shed, a scrabbly vegetable garden where smoke plumed from a dying fire.

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Our boat pulled up to a wooden platform about 1km out into the harbour, surrounded by the fishermen and their homes.

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Despite a busy schedule giving private lessons and performing at schools and nursing homes, Eliot, who started playing the piano as a child and grew up surrounded by jazz, delights in the steady stream of visitors who turn up every week.

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In Ankeny, a suburb of Des Moines surrounded by farmland, Albaugh is bankrolling a 1, 031-acre development that will have 3, 555 homes.

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For more than seven weeks now since Katrina destroyed many of their homes, businesses and entire neighborhoods, the people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast have been surrounded by the debris of what was.

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The homes, to be known as St Ederyn's Village, would be developed on land surrounded by junction 30 of the M4, the Pentwyn link road and the A48 Eastern Avenue.

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