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A resident of the Mid-City section of New Orleans watches from his porch during street flooding from heavy thunderstorms that rumbled through the area on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, dumping as much as 4 inches in one hour. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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A home is flooded in Washingtonville, N.Y., early Monday, March 7, 2011. Flooding has closed several roads in Ulster County and other areas south of Albany. Parts of upstate New York are buried under more than 2 feet of heavy snow, with freezing rain, sleet and 30-mph winds added to the mix, closing scores of schools and knocking out power to more than 40,000 utility customers. (AP Photo/Paul Kazdan)

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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2011 file photo, Eminem performs at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

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Damage from Saturday's tornado, which killed one and injured at least a dozen others, is evident Sunday in Rayne, La. About 1,500 people were unable to immediately return to their homes, said Police Chief Carroll Stelly. (Associated Press)

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Van Metre Homes is building 3,100 town homes at Stone Ridge in Aldie. The homes have 2,562 to 2,608 finished square feet, with base prices from $348,990 to $359,990.

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The three-bedroom Astoria model at Stone Ridge is an end-unit town home with 2,562 square feet. It is priced from $359,990.

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A Washington Township school bus sits on the side of the road in Fishers, Ind., northeast of Indianapolis, on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Severe thunderstorms cut across central and southern Indiana early Monday, dumping heavy rains that flooded roadways and whipping up high winds that damaged homes and toppled trees and power lines. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)

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Hundreds of Kansans participate in a pro-union rally on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, on the south steps of the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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The edge of a winter storm which hit the Tucson area is reflected in the water hazard on the third hole at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club before the finals of the Match Play Championship golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, in Marana, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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Liberty Homes is building 43 town homes at the Landing at Emerson, near commuter routes and shopping centers in Columbia. The homes have 1,782 to 1,935 finished square feet, with base prices from the $340,000s.

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Ryan Homes is building single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Port Potomac Estates in Woodbridge. The homes have 1,852 to 5,105 finished square feet, with base prices from $384,990 to $417,990.

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Miriam Young, Hong Kong actress, ambassador of 35th Hong Kong International film festival poses after a press conference in Hong Kong Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. The Hong Kong festival, which will run from March 20 to April 5, will feature some 300 movies from 56 countries. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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High winds blow snow along Highway 13 near Burnsville, Minn., on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. The heavy snow and high winds across southern Minnesota caused scores of accidents, grounded hundreds of flights and forced some businesses to close early. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, Brian Peterson)

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Models wait in line during a rehearsal before the L.A.M.B. fall 2011 collection show during Fashion Week Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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Providence of Brookfield Homes is offering three collections of single-family homes at Heritage Shores. They are priced from $234,990 to $387,990 and have 1,297 to 2,807 square feet.

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A lioness looks out of her cage at a provisory shelter in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. Twenty-five lions rescued in Bolivia from what animal welfare advocates say were miserable conditions, mostly in circuses, are bound for a wildlife refuge in Colorado on Wednesday. A law took effect in Bolivia in 2010 prohibiting all animal performances. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2000 file photo, an inspector wades through the checkout aisles of a supermarket in Uckfield, south of London, as the local river burst its bank and caused the town to flood, after several days of heavy rain and a night of severe storms. Two studies in the journal Nature link global warming to extreme rainstorms and snowfalls and find these weather events are getting substantially worse. One study found that the strongest precipitation events were 7 percent wetter in the 1990s than they were in the 1950s. The other looked at costly flooding in England and Wales in the fall of 2000 and found that global warming more than doubled the likelihood of that flood occurring. Both studies used computer modeling. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)