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FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) - Rescuers are using everything from school buses to helicopters to reach about 3,500 people trapped in a Nevada town because of a levee break. One resident tells CNN that water is 3 to 4 feet deep in parts of Fernley, Nevada, which is east of Reno. Authorities say the frigid water has poured into about 800 homes.

Two Central Valley levees broke Tuesday, flooding a trailer park in Merced and inundating farmland in Sacramento County as heavy rain continued to fall across Northern California, the State Department of Water Resources said. A breach on Black Rascal Creek at the confluence of Bear Creek was threatening about 50 nearby homes in Merced, said Michael Miller, a department spokesman. A couple hours later, a private levee built by a farmer east of Highway 99 at the crossing of the Consumnes River south of Sacramento swamped fields but posed no threat to homes, the highway or railroad tracks. The same...

When the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board developed a plan in 1981 to improve street drainage by dredging the 17th Street Canal to increase capacity for Pump Station No. 6, residents across the city applauded. Increasingly heavy rains were not only flooding streets, but also pushing water into homes. Action was needed. It seemed like a no-brainer. Today, forensic engineers investigating the levee breach that flooded much of city during Hurricane Katrina aren't so sure. The search for the cause of the failure keeps returning to that dredging project as the probable starting point for a series of mistakes...

Just broke on CNN about five minutes ago. Rick Sanchez was interviewing the VP of Tulane University Hospital, which is located in downtown New Orleans. She said the water is rising around the hospital at a rate of about one inch per minute. She said if it continues at that rate, she will have to call FEMA to ask them to bring in helicopters to evacuate the hospital. She said there are about 1000 patients in the hospital, and that it has a helipad on the roof. It would be the only way to get everyone out. Hospital officials have...

A steel barge that came crashing into one of the levee walls, and not the failure of that levee to hold back an immense tidal wave, was to blame for much of the flooding that drowned parts of New Orleans. Lying an average of seven feet below sea level, surrounded by the waters of Lake Ponchartrain, the Mississippi River and Lake Borgne, which separates Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico, and protected by a series of sinking levees, the city of New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. It happened on August 29, 2005, just as the city...

944 WGUS53 KIND 101628 FFWIND INC083-102030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNINGNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1124 AM EST MON JAN 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A LEVEE FAILURE IN... SOUTHWESTERN KNOX COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA * UNTIL 330 PM EST * AT 1124 AM EST...A LEVEE AT THE DECKER CHAPEL AREA HAS FAILED CAUSING FLASH FLOODING OF IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREAS. * AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE DECKER CHAPEL. LAT...LON 3866 8744 3853 8749 3844 8769 3863 8762 $$ HAINES

A levee has broken near Stockton, sparcely populated but people are being evacuated