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Van Metre Homes is building 76 single-family homes at Village Run at Stone Ridge in Aldie. The Manchester model, which has 3,132 square feet, is priced from $542,990.

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Filipinos cross a river in the flash-flood-hit village of Andap in the Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country this year, barreled across the nation's south on Tuesday, killing scores of people while triggering landslides and flooding and cutting off power in two entire provinces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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** FILE ** This Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, file aerial photo shows a collapsed house along the central Jersey Shore coast. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

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This Oct. 30, 2012 file photo shows water reaching the street level of the flooded Battery Park Underpass in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, a man walks past destroyed homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, New York. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Residents walk back to their homes after Typhoon Bopha made landfall in Compostela Valley in southeastern Philippines Tuesday Dec. 4, 2012. Typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo), one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year, barreled across the country's south on Tuesday, killing at least 40 people and forcing more than 50,000 to flee from inundated villages. (AP Photo/Karlos Manlupig)

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Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III, shown in an undated photo, was killed in the early morning of Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, during law enforcement operations near California's Santa Cruz Island. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard/ Lt. Stewart Sibert)

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The waters in Tewkesbury turn a bicyclist into a pedestrian. Rain and winds battered areas of Britain in late November, flooding 800 homes, officials said. With more storms on the way, the government and the insurance industry are engaged in finger-pointing about who should pay. (Associated Press)

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A property stands surrounded by floodwater near the River Severn in Tewkesbury, England, last week as heavy rain continued to fall across Britain, growing the concerns of homeowners and businesses about the cost and availability of flood insurance. (Associated Press)