Weather

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A worker uses a backhoe to clear snow from the center of the drawbridge in Great Bridge Sunday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2010 in Chesapeake, Va. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Randall Greenwell)

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A rare Christmas Day snowfall creates a veritable winter wonderland along a roadway in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday morning, Dec. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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An overturned SUV lies in a snowy ditch along I-40 in western North Carolina at Mile Marker 48 on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Much of North Carolina was under a winter storm warning. (AP Photo/The Asheville Citizen-Times, Margaret Hester)

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Brandon Locklear (left) and Jeff Orrock, meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Raleigh, N.C., track the snowstorm moving into the Triangle area on Saturday evening, Dec. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Takaaki Iwabu)

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Ramiz Mustafa sweeps several inches of snow from his car on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, outside his home in Bowling Green, Ky. Parts of south-central Kentucky received 3 to 4 inches of snow. (AP Photo/Daily News, Joe Imel)

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Passengers wait for their flights at Duesseldorf Airport in western Germany on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. According to the German Dapd news agency, the airport was shut down Friday for several hours because of bad weather. (AP Photo/Dapd, Jakob Studnar)

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Firefighters help a woman from her vehicle on a flooded street in Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2010. The tail end of a storm that dumped rain on Southern California for nearly a week gave the region one final lashing, burying cars in mud, washing hillsides onto highways, flooding urban streets and threatening dozens of canyon homes. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)

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Van Metre is building 52 town homes at City Towns at the Overlook in Brambleton, located within walking distance of movies, restaurants and shops. The homes have 2,024 to 2,217 finished square feet, with base prices from $349,990 to $374,990.

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The Gramercy model at the City Towns at the Overlook in Brambleton has three finished levels. It is priced from $359,990.

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South Korean border guards patrol the fence near the border village of Panmunjom on Wednesday as the South Korean air force and army prepare for massive drills.

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Sisters Louise Smith (left) and Anita Gagnon cut a sheet of drywall while volunteering Nov. 19 in the rebuilding of a New Orleans home ravaged by the 2005 flooding spawned by Katrina.

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Passengers queue outside Terminal 3 at London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, to have their boarding passes checked as disruptions continued because of bad weather leading to the cancellation of some flights. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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A worker removes a large fallen tree from a home in the Beverly Glen neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Virtually the entire state has been affected by the storms that began Friday, dumping moisture from far Northern California south to San Diego. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)

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In this Oct. 8, 2010 photo, the Canadian Tenors, from left, Fraser Walters, Clifton Murray, Victor Micallef and Remigio Pereira pose for a photo in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Art Ambrush tries to shield himself against the rain on Sunday morning, Dec. 19, 2010, in Seal Beach, Calif. A pre-winter storm dumped as much as 7 inches of rain on parts of Southern California over the weekend. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Michael Goulding)

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Workers remove snow from the upper seats at TCF Stadium in Minneapolis, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. Monday night's NFL game between the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings will be played at the stadium because of the Metrodome's snow-damaged roof. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Bruce Bisping)