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Texas Floods 2017

Torrential and prolonged downpours through the week of May 22, 2016, have caused severe flooding in the Houston metropolitan area. The Governor issued a State of Disaster for nine counties on Monday, including Austin, Bastrop, Colorado, Fort Bend, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Waller and Wharton. Three million residents are in the impacted region. More than 100,000

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Arkansas Floods 2017

May 1, 2017, heavy rainfall caused a dangerous flooding situation in northeastern Arkansas when a levee failed along the Black River near the town of Pocahontas. Following the breach, the National Weather Service office in Memphis, Tennessee, immediately issued a flash flood emergency and urged residents to seek higher ground in eastern Pocahontas, which included:

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Georgia Tornado 2017

On the weekend of January 21st, a violent system of over 29 confirmed tornadoes touched down from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle including parts of Alabama and Georgia. The storms left over 20 dead, many more injured, and hundreds homeless. Officials in Albany, Georgia described the damage looking as if a nuclear bomb had gone

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Tennessee Fire 2016

Tennessee: 548 hours, 11 homes assisted On December 1, just two days after a fire ripped through the Great Smoky Mountains, Reach Out WorldWide was on the ground in eastern Tennessee. This deployment was ROWW’s first response to a large-scale fire; a fire that left nearly 20,000 acres burned, over 2,000 structures damaged or destroyed,

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