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    A deicing agent is applied to a SkyWest airplane before its takeoff on Jan. 18, 2019, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
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    Powerful Winter Storm Sweeps East After Blanketing The Midwest

    Jan 19, 2019
    The storm is bringing snow, ice, freezing rain and arctic air to much of the East Coast.
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    Floods in Ellicott City, Maryland, pushed cars into a pile last May. This year has been a year of record rainfall for cities throughout the mid-Atlantic and Carolinas.
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    2018 Is Now The Wettest Year On Record For Washington And Other Cities

    Dec 15, 2018
    So far this year, 61.34 inches of rain have fallen in Washington, breaking a 129-year-old record.
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    Tropical Storm Florence is expected to approach the U.S. East Coast next week. Emergency officials have told residents to expect immediate threats of ocean swells, dangerous rip currents and coastal flooding.
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    Florence Forecast To Become A Major Hurricane; Risk To The East Coast Is Rising

    Sep 08, 2018
    Florence is expected to pick up speed and become a hurricane Saturday night. North and South Carolina have declared states of emergency and are urging residents to prepare for the storm.
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    The Two-Way
    A man walks through the streets of Boston on Thursday as snow falls from a massive winter storm. Schools and businesses throughout the Boston area were closed during the storm.
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    Blizzard Has Passed, But Frigid Temperatures Remain Along East Coast

    Jan 05, 2018
    The National Weather Service says there's a good chance that some locations will set temperature records today, as arctic air settles in after a massive winter storm.
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    The Two-Way
    A road begins to flood in Scituate, Mass., during a massive winter storm on Thursday.
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    Blizzard Conditions Hit New England As Massive Winter Storm Travels North

    Jan 04, 2018
    As the "bomb cyclone" intensifies, visibility has dropped to nearly zero in some sections of the snow band. Serious flooding and hurricane-force winds have been observed in coastal Massachusetts.
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    The Two-Way
    Katherine Reid walks her dogs on the snow covered median in Richmond, Va., on Thursday. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast.
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    Winter Storm Rakes East Coast, Bringing Snow, Wind To Northeast

    Jan 03, 2018
    The storm, which meteorologists are calling a "bomb cyclone," brought bitterly cold weather to the South.
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    The Salt
    Rolled oysters have been a favorite snack in Louisville, Ky., restaurants for more than a century, but turmoil in the oyster industry has caused them to dwindle.
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    The Rolled Oyster, Louisville's Oddball Bar Snack, Is Tumbling Off Menus

    Sep 28, 2017
    The softball-size, deep-fried morsels, which have been offered in this Kentucky city's restaurants for more than a century, are taking a hit due to low supply and high costs in the oyster industry.
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    Code Switch
    An evening projection from the Chinatown Art Brigade, in partnership with <a href="http://theilluminator.org/" target="_blank">The Illuminator</a>, at the corner of Grand and Chrystie Streets in Chinatown, New York City, in 2016. A crowd gathered to watc
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    Chinatowns Across The Country Face Off With Gentrification

    Mar 15, 2017
    Community groups use both "hard" and "soft" approaches, involving organizing residents, bringing media attention to evictions, and advocating for government policies that protect tenants.
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    NASA's image of the day Thursday showed the storm on Wednesday, when it was still building over the central U.S. The storm system started in the Pacific ocean, tracked across the U.S. to the Gulf Coast and then moved toward the Mid-Atlantic region.
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    Massive Blizzard Works Its Way Up The East Coast

    Jan 22, 2016
    A storm heading up the East Coast is coating roads in ice and blanketing regions in snow, and has shut down Washington, D.C., and several other major cities.
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