Elsewhere, flags have been flown at half mast in Carmarthenshire where Gravell lived and even had a street named after him in the village of Mynyddygarreg.
Yang Yeng, a shopkeeper selling batteries, candles, and flashlights on the street in front of his still darkened shop in the East Village, said his T-Mobile phone was useless in the area.
In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.
Several hundred spectators looked on as local and visiting sides slogged it out for the Sherston Cup in the village's gravelled-over High Street.
The sales-tax revenues generated in the shops of Little Village's 26th Street are, it is said, greater than those of any other retail corridor in Chicago but Magnificent Mile.
The woman listened politely, then gave him the name of a village in Normandy, a street, and a number.
The photo showed an SUV floating gently down the village street. (We will be there in a week or two, thanks for asking.) As I write, five flood warnings and 23 flood alerts have been issued by the Environment Agency.
Another demo plotted a route from Greenwich Village to Wall Street in Manhattan and smoothly flew overhead along the route.
John Skidmore, head of street scene services at the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said five pumps were in the village attempting to move away excess water.
In Manhattan, there are only three homes under 12 feet wide, with the slimmest at nine-and-a-half-feet on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, according to city tax records.
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From 1966 to 1970, I attended Xavier High School at 30 West 16th Street in Manhattan, a few blocks north of Greenwich Village and oddly enough not that far from the main office of Forbes.
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In our demo, that meant pumping in images, opening times and an audio description of the boutiques on the main street of the model village.
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On the street, mopeds clatter past and children wave from the backs of pick-up trucks, while in the fields beyond the village, evening shadows fall across the rice paddies and rubber trees.
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