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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)
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Smoke billows from a wildfire west of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Saturday, June 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Bryan Oller)
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Emergency responders work on a wild land fire that is threatening homes in Saratoga Springs, Utah, Friday, June 22, 2012. About 1,000 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials were calling in additional aircraft to fight the fast-moving fire near Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. At one point, the fire threatened an explosives factory. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred)
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The Pittsburgh Penguins sent center Jordan Staal to the Carolina Hurricanes for Brandon Sutter, a prospect at the eighth overall pick in the 2012 NHL draft. (AP Photo/File/Gene J. Puskar)
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Residents of New Delhi are paying the toll of an unprecedented water shortage as a result of the destruction of natural sources such as the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers. Top left: In some parts of China, those who must venture outside need heavy protection against raging sandstorms, which are blamed on a mentality of growth at any cost. (Associated Press)
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Residents of New Delhi are paying the toll of an unprecedented water shortage as a result of the destruction of natural sources such as the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers. In some parts of China, those who must venture outside need heavy protection against raging sandstorms, which are blamed on a mentality of growth at any cost. (Associated Press)
