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Deputy Rick Swain (left) and Jason Willis (right) guide Mr. Willis' airboat, which is carrying to safety an elderly resident stranded by floodwaters west of Brooksville, Fla., on Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Tampa Bay Times, Will Vragovic)
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A woman cries for her four children, whom she lost in a landslide in Bududa, Uganda, on Tuesday, June 27, 2012. Massive mudslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of the country's east, killing scores of people, officials said. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
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A home lifted from its foundation sits next to a flooded yard in St. Pete Beach, Fla., on Monday. Gov. Rick Scott has declared a statewide emergency as an estimated 35,000 homes and businesses have lost electricity due to the slow-moving storm. (Tampa Bay Times photographs via Associated Press)
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Wildfires burn west of Colorado Springs, Colo. on Sunday, June 24, 2012, as the sun sets. (AP Photo/Colorado Springs Gazette, Susannah Kay)
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The roof of an apartment building near was destroyed on Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Bladensburg, Md. A mircoburst, a small concentrate downdraft, struck the area on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
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Utility crews work to fix damage equipment in Bladensburg, Md. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
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Lam Jibola, right, pulls a plastic sheet over the broken back window of a car in Bladensburg, Md. A mircoburst, a small concentrate downdraft, struck the area on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
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Clean up crews work to clear debris from the area near Newton St. and 54th Avenue that was hit by a storm on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
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Lam Jibola, checks the storm damage to a friends car at Newton St. and 54th Avenue on Sunday, June 24, 2012. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
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The roof of an apartment building near was destroyed in Bladensburg, Md after a storm on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
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Utility crews work to fix damage equipment near Newton St. and 54th Avenue on Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Bladensburg, Md. A mircoburst, a small concentrate downdraft, struck the area on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
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Rubble smolders Sunday from a home consumed by fire a day earlier in Estes Park, Colo. Eight wildfires are burning across Colorado, with temperatures near 100 degrees and gusty winds fueling flames in tinder-dry conditions. (Associated Press)
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Smoke rises from two freight trains that collided two miles east of Goodwell, Okla., on Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/The Guymon Daily Herald, Trudy Hart)
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The evening sky glows orange with smoke and flames as the Waldo Canyon Fire rages west of the Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs, Colo., on Saturday, June 23, 2012. ( AP Photo/Bryan Oller)
