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Topic: Natural Disasters (page 10)

Satellite image of Hurricane Sandy as of early Sunday morning (NOAA)

Damage from the 2009 L'Aquila quake (Wikimedia)

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(NASA)

Eyes on the storm

(Reuters/Joe Skipper)

Alex Seitz-Wald

Harry Reid and John Boehner

GOP still fighting disaster relief funding

Rick Perry's Texas cuts firefighting budget

FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate gestures during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug., 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

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Tom Chase waves atop of his friend's beach home in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene, in East Haven, Conn., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (AP)

A flooded road is seen in Hatteras Island, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011after Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations. Irene caused more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast to reportedly lose power over the weekend, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm.(AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds) (AP)

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Eric Cantor

GOP suddenly loves FEMA

Budget cuts imperil hurricane forecasting

People crowd Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, as they evacuate buildings after an earthquake his the in Washington area. The 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

A resident uses her mobile phone near wrecked vehicles after a landslide caused by heavy rains in in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. A quick blast of heavy rain sent landslides barreling through South Korea's capital and a northern town Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man) (AP)

Hyung-jin Kim, Sam Kim

A giant dust storm covers Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday, July 5, 2011. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher) (AP)

Peter Finocchiaro

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The Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula.

A row of electric power poles snapped along Floyd Street at Central Avenue in front of Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, June 22, 2011 after an apparent tornado moved through the area. At least five barns were damaged and horses were running loose Wednesday at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, after a powerful storm that spawned tornadoes blew through Louisville. (AP Photo/Garry Jones) (AP)

Bruce Schreiner

The Souris River passes near a home Tuesday, June 21, 2011, in Minot, N.D. About 11,000 Minot residents are being ordered to leave their homes even earlier than expected this week as the river gets closer to swamping the North Dakota city with the worst flooding in four decades, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/ The Forum, Teri Finneman) (AP)

Associated Press

Two men on a motorcycle are stuck in floodwaters in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Saturday June 18, 2011. Flooding from this month's seasonal rains has already forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and left more than 170 dead or missing. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT (AP)

Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 14, 2011, a puppy looks out of its cage at a shelter in Joplin, Mo. More than three weeks after an EF5 tornado ripped through Joplin, nearly 900 dogs and cats remain sheltered at the Humane Society, most of them unlikely to ever be reunited with their owners. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (AP)

Jim Salter, Alan Scher Zagier

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