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Two rhinos and at least a dozen other animals, mostly deer, have drowned in the flood waters.
Also, many dental records were lost in the flood, along with personal effects needed for a DNA match.
Many complained about the outdated drainage system and how cars that were stuck in the flood were being ticketed.
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Yet residents in the flood zone say they must balance a number of concerns as they decide what to do.
For example, UNESCO is concerned about the damage suffered by schools being used as IDP camps in the flood emergency.
For example Canvey Island, which saw a terrible loss of life in the flood, has three times more people than 60 years ago.
Although belief in a long-ago Eden's literal existence survived, most agreed with Martin Luther that it had perished in the flood.
And that's one of the major shortcomings in the flood insurance program.
Social media, as well as more traditional, battery driven radios kept people in the flood zone in touch with up-to-date information and support.
Those not harmed, but living in the flood-ravaged area, still face plenty of challenges such as no electricity, a disrupted water supply, damaged roads and faulty communication.
"The bars just don't pay, " French says, watching with disgust as a tourist bus navigates the rutted street in front of his house in the flood-ravaged Ninth Ward.
India's top federal investigation agency will probe a series of attacks on rare one-horned rhinos by suspected poachers in the flood-hit state of Assam, a senior minister has said.
Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.
"It's extremely frustrating, " said Dr. Frank Minyard, given that so many dentists' offices were wiped out in the flood along with their dental records, which are commonly used in the identification process.
There's a fine, often surprising selection of large, angry, mature abstractions, with their jagged, flamelike shapes and troweled-on expanses of thick pigment, their labored surfaces seductive in the flood of light against warm concrete walls.
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For even though we've reduced the deluge of job losses to a relative trickle, we are not yet creating jobs at a pace to help all those families who've been swept up in the flood.
"Congress should not allow the federal government to be involved in the flood insurance industry in the first place, let alone expand the national flood insurance program's authority, " the Club for Growth wrote on its website.
At Duluth's Lake Superior Zoo, where a group of barnyard animals drowned in the flood, and a polar bear and two seals temporarily escaped, 200 volunteers dug out exhibits from mudslides and cleaned out debris on Saturday.
Rebecca Lindland, the director of research at IHS Automotive, says that while there will certainly be a short-term decline in sales (no one shopped for cars this week), many consumers will need to buy replacement vehicles for the ones totaled in the flood.
Up to 6 feet of water spilled into an industrial park in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans at one point late Monday morning, pouring through small gaps in the concrete flood walls before receding in the afternoon.
Although the firm's founders registered the Dagadu Djokdja trademark a few years ago, they say they have received no help from the local government in staunching the flood of pirated Dagadu products.
And often, great stories are lost in the daily flood of millions of options for readers to spend their time on.
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The network also wants to require communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program to adopt stronger building codes and conduct a vulnerability assessment of critical facilities.
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The BBC's Nick Bryant reports from Sydney that the river in Bundaberg is already above the flood levels witnessed in 2010, and meteorologists fear it could rise another metre, reaching levels not seen in 70 years.
The Army were drafted in to help bolster flood defences in the North Yorkshire village of Cawood.
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