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Jesus Gillian (left) and Boly Vasquez, who both work for Cabanas restaurant on the Georgetown waterfront, toss wine bottles into a trash bin Thursday. Water damage from massive flooding earlier in the week forced restaurants to discard food, furniture and more. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Being garaged saved the 30-year-old vinyl wood trim from fading. The 19-foot-long Mercury is one of the more luxurious station wagons.
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Miller and Smith is building single-family homes and town homes at Millville by the Sea in Millville, Del. The three-bedroom single-family homes are priced from $239,900 to $319,900.
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The Picasso features a center-island kitchen open to the family room on the main level. Upstairs, the master bedroom has two walk-in closets and a private bath.
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Ryan Homes is building town-home-style condominiums at the Villages of Urbana in Frederick. The homes are priced from $239,990 to $269,990.
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The open kitchen has stainless steel appliances, granite counters and upgraded cabinetry, some of which has glass fronts.
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** FILE ** Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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A woman sees a relative lying dead on the ground after he was killed by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in December 2010. (Associated Press)
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ENVIRONMENTAL HIT: An oil-drenched bird in June 2010 struggles to climb onto a boom in Barataria Bay, La., which was affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon spill. The April 20, 2010, explosion at the offshore platform killed 11 men, and the leak released an estimated 170 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. (Associated Press)
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A member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., in April 2010. Environmental activists predict it will be a long time before the full extent of the spill's impact on Gulf wetlands can be determined. (Associated Press)
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A wildfire threatens a house near Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas, where at least 18 homes and two churches were burned and residents fled. Wildfires in the past week have burned more than 1,000 square miles of Texas ranchland. (Associated Press)
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Millie Jernigan collects her belongings from her destroyed home in Askewville, N.C., on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 after tornadoes devastated the area Saturday. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
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An above-ground Metrorail station at Washington Dulles International Airport would be located here, outside Daily Garage 1, at the airport in Chantilly, Va. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Businesses and residents at Washington Harbour were ordered to evacuate as water engulfed garages and restaurants. "Had the wall been up, it would have prevented a flood," fire department spokesman Pete Piringer said of the missing gate. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A Washington Harbour resident (left) who did not wish to be identified helps a neighbor's maid transport the family's dog, Kali, to safety as Washington Harbor residents were evacuated Monday morning when the Potomac River overflowed its banks. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A U.S. Park Police officer keeps watch as the rising water of the Potomac River floods the Georgetown waterfront Monday morning. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Mike Hollowell, manager of a Lowe's in Sanford, N.C., directed dozens of customers to safety when a tornado struck the home-improvement store Saturday. A day later, he recounts the scene — "people screaming in fear" — during a radio interview. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this 2011 file photo, one firm swipe from an excavator demolishes a New Orleans house damaged in Hurricane Katrina. Preservationists and HBO, which uses several such ramshackle houses in ads for "Treme," tried but failed to save them. (Associated Press)
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to end the crisis at its tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, within six months. This is the operation floor in the reactor building of Unit 4 at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. (Bloomberg)
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Steve Sawyer sorts through debris of a 3,500-square-foot home that was destroyed after a tornado swept through the area Saturday night in Gloucester, Va., in this photo taken Sunday, April 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
