Some mines caught on fire while others filled up with water that overflowed into streams and rivers.

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An upstairs toilet overflowed and its automatic threshold for stopping the water failed to operate.

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Fifty homeowners were told to evacuate their homes in the Autumn Mews area of Worle, Weston-Super-Mare, as water was pumped away when a large pond overflowed.

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The contractor hired by the FBI to drain the pond put the water into two other nearby ponds, and some of it could have overflowed into land.

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