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A look at the worst flood in U.S. history (the same year as the S.F. quake)

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As the weather improves here, I don’t want to forget that there are still people out there struggling because of flooding and other weather related issues.

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Tri-Village Online Television traveled north to Gulfport, Illinois, on July 30, 2008, on reports of flash flood watches and warnings in Henderson County. Here are scenes from the east side of the Mississippi River, near Gulfport, as flood water threatens U. S. 34, one major link between Illinois and Iowa.

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Was it deception or just misinformation when in the early days of this platform collapse it was being reported that there was no oil leaking in the gulf. Well the story is now quite different, this could end up being the worst environmental damage in history.
Just a short time ago in Jamaica we filmed a poet talking about oil. Listen to the words,who is the owner of the oil.
Oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Thursday as it threatens the environmentally delicate coastline of Louisiana and three other Southern U.S. states.
People along the Gulf Coast braced for environmental damage and disruption to businesses, such as the rich shrimp and oyster fisheries along southern Louisiana. President Obama said he will commit “every single resource” the federal government had available to combat the spill, as the military began mobilizing Thursday to help prevent environmental damage.

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