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Rains Add to Flood Threat in Quake Area

More news from the “quake lakes” formed by the Sichuan tremblor. This time the threat is coming from above in the form of rain, from The New York Times: As heavy rains descended on northern Sichuan Province for the first time in a week, the government evacuated thousands of people on Friday from towns heavily damaged by the earthquake and now threatened by flooding from so-called quake