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France wildfire evacuations lift as weather improves, but George Clooney among thousands still displaced

nglobix@gmail.com1 month ago06 mins

Ege-Cap Ferret, France — French authorities gave the go-ahead Thursday for 84,000 evacuees forced out by a monster wildfire to go back to their homes in southwest France, the strongest sign yet that firefighters are turning a corner in their battle against the flames that have burned an area four times the size of Paris. The…

Maps show where heavy rainfall poses flood risks across Northeast

nglobix@gmail.com2 months ago03 mins

More than 10 million people were under flood alerts across the northeastern United States on Wednesday, as a storm system that brought tornadoes to parts of the Midwest earlier in the week moves into New England. The National Weather Service issued flood watches for large chunks of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont that…