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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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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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The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on the banks of the Connecticut River in Vernon, Vt. (Associated Press file)
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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)
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In this April 17, 2011, photo, Jeffery Lee looks at a photograph in the middle of debris that was once his friend's home in Fayetteville, N.C., after a tornado hit the area Saturday. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue plans to tour areas that were hit hard by a ferocious storm system with twisters that ripped through the South, killing at least 45 people across six states. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)
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In this April 17, 2011, photo, a business lies in ruin in Fayetteville, N.C., after a tornado hit the area Saturday. North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue plans to tour areas that were hit hard by a ferocious storm system with twisters that ripped through the South, killing at least 45 people across six states. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)
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In this April 17, 2011, photo, homes lay in ruin in a subdivision in Fayetteville, N.C., after a tornado hit the area Saturday. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue plans to tour areas that were hit hard by a ferocious storm system with twisters that ripped through the South, killing at least 45 people across six states. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)
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This aerial photo taken Sunday, April 17, 2011, shows a home severely damaged by a tornado that ripped through Gloucester, Va., on Saturday. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Randall Greenwell)
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This aerial photo taken Sunday, April 17, 2011, shows damage to Page Middle School by a tornado that ripped through Gloucester, Va., on Saturday. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Randall Greenwell)
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Kathy Gay looks at the damaged ceiling in the home of her brother Gary Jordan on Sunday, April 17, 2011, in Gloucester, Va. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Sunday declared a state of emergency, authorizing state agencies to assist local officials in response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)
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A truck in Gloucester, Va., damaged by Saturday's tornado, is shown in this photo taken Sunday, April 17, 2011. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Sunday declared a state of emergency, authorizing state agencies to assist local officials in response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)
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Page Middle School is damaged along with two school buses after Saturday's tornado in Gloucester, Va., as shown in this picture taken Sunday, April 17, 2011. Tornadoes and flash flooding have left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Sunday declared a state of emergency, authorizing state agencies to assist local officials in response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)
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An EMS worker assists an employee from the Umami Sushi restaurant to safety after a tornado left several businesses in ruins on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Sanford, N.C. A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs left at least 40 people dead on a rampage that stretched for days as it barreled from Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia. Emergency crews searched for victims in hard-hit swaths of North Carolina, where 62 tornadoes were reported from the worst spring storm in two decades to hit the state. (AP Photo/The Sanford Herald, Wesley Beeson)
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Lowe's Home Improvement employees stand in the parking lot of their store after it was hit by a tornado in Sanford, N.C., on Saturday, April 16, 2011. Homes and businesses were badly damaged by a severe storm system that whipped across North Carolina, bringing flash floods, hail and reports of tornadoes from the western hills to the streets of Raleigh. "The Lowe's Home Improvement has been flattened," said Monica Elliott, who works at the nearby Brick City Grill. "It's totally destroyed." (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
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Will Harrison's flag hangs from a fallen tree after it was blown off his house when a tornado ripped through the Cottonade neighborhood in Fayetteville, N.C., on Saturday, April 15, 2011. Homes and businesses were badly damaged by a severe storm system that whipped across North Carolina, bringing flash floods, hail and reports of tornadoes from the western hills to the streets of Raleigh. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)
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A radio-controlled PakBot robot opens a door inside the reactor building of Unit 2 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant as the robot is monitored by another Pakbot from behind during inspection of the tsunami-damaged facilities on Monday, April 18, 2011, in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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An aerial photo shows destroyed mobile homes in the Stony Brook Mobile Home Park in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday. A tornado ripped through the area Saturday as a line of severe storms moved across the state. (Associated Press)
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Glen Passner (front) and Craig Ownes, volunteers with N.C. Baptist Men, examine damage in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday. A pine tree cut through the upper level of the house. (Associated Press)
