"We have significant flooding problems, " said Harvey Campbell, a spokesman for Columbia County's emergency operations center.

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As Columbia County became more of a destination for New Yorkers great restaurants and cultural and outdoor activities have multiplied.

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"When you are dealing with thousands of dollars of damage, it's beyond a prank, " said Captain Steve Morris of the Columbia County, Ga.

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Some Albany suburbs also received nearly 10 inches of snow, while there was as much as 11 inches in parts of Columbia County near the Connecticut line.

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Gay now leads the Sabine County Columbia Memorial Committee.

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Ulmer talked about the phone call at a Monday evening picnic rally in his Democratic-leaning rural county located between Columbia and Charleston.

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Those who worked in this building, many of you in front of me, and thousands more first responders across the region --firefighters from Arlington County, Fairfax County, Montgomery County, the District of Columbia and many others, they sprang to action, risking their lives so their friends, their colleagues and total strangers, people they had never met, might live.

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EDT, after the 23-year-old man entered a Metro station in Prince George's County, located just east of the District of Columbia.

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