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| People and
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fifty people died as a result of the flooding, 26,000 |
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evacuated and over 56,000 homes were damaged. |
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losses that are directly attributable to the |
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| flooding
totaled $10-12 billion. Indirect losses in the form |
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wages and production can not be accurately |
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consequences of flooding were |
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by land use patterns. |
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