Crews helped some residents pump water out of their houses but no homes were evacuated.
Crew members tried to plug the tear with wooden pegs and pump the water out.
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Number two, we're getting assets in to pump as much water out as possible.
In some communities the fire department will even pump water out of your basement for you.
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An operation to pump water out of flooded properties in an East Yorkshire village is continuing.
The good news is that people are drinking more water out of bottles.
The oil drives the water out of the slices and turns the starch in the potatoes crisp.
The tents they live in are small, covered by tarps and plastic sheeting to keep water out.
Power is equal to the flow of water out of the pipe, which depends on both variables.
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In three locations, each about 15 blocks apart, giant trucks pumped water out of flooded office buildings.
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Over the years she and her husband and neighbours have tried various methods to keep the water out.
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Pumping water out of flooded tunnels would take anywhere from 14 hours to four days, MTA officials said.
Of course Bud Lite is mostly water, and it takes a lot of energy to get that water out.
Mr. GERALD GIBERTO(ph) (Field Manager, MA Patout): The main thing is getting the water out as fast as we can.
In Oxfordshire, council workers have been busy pumping flood water out of drains and putting temporary flood defences in place.
Employee Shaun Muir said they have been pumping about three to four inches of water out for the last 24 hours.
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As I walked I saw apartment buildings pumping water out of basements and garages with loads of cars mostly submerged in floorwater.
At one point the girl desperately sucked water out of a washcloth.
Mr Gibb said he was struggling to get the water out when three men arrived with brooms and helped with the clean-up.
The buyer can have very large hoses taking water out, and then resell to many thousands of people behind them in ever-smaller quantities.
In Narberth, Pembrokeshire, residents are reported to be battling to keep water out of their homes, and roads in the area are flooded.
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In return, an Arizona water-user (say, the city of Tucson) pumps the same amount of Nevada's water out of the aquifer under Arizona.
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Kevin Breslin, 54 years old in Rockaway Beach, said he bought 30 50-pound sandbags to keep water out of the basement of his beachfront home.
They had to pump some 60 feet of water out of the basement of a large office building to allow Con Ed to restore power.
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Elsewhere residents on Gansevoort Street pumped water out of blackened basements while others blasted Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd in relative ease just blocks away.
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But with the discovery of leaks, Tepco has to pump the water out of the pools earlier than it expected and store it above ground instead.
But somehow we lost power in our generator and in our main engines, and as a result, we could not pump any water out of the boat.
"We are only running power for emergency supplies, such as pumping water out, and have stopped producing at all mines, " AngloGold spokesman Steve Lenahan told Reuters news agency.
The New York Times reports that a team of specialists from the Army Corps of Engineers has been deployed to help pump water out of the flooded subway tunnels.
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