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Mayfield (United States) (AFP) - With the help of volunteers from around the country, families in western Kentucky will be able to celebrate Christmas on Saturday, two weeks after a string of tornadoes wrought a path of deadly destruction. "We're just trying to provide Christmas," said Jimmy Finch, a volunteer from the neighboring US state of Tennessee who came to Mayfield the day after the twisters hit. "I haven't kept a total tally of how many people we have fed," Finch said. "We just encourage everybody to keep coming back." Under a big yellow tent set up in a parking lot, the Scientology V...
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New York (AFP) - A swath of the US east coast, including New York City, was under alert Friday due to approaching storm Henri, which is expected to become the first hurricane to hit the New England area in decades. Forecasters warned of violent winds, the risk of flash floods and surging seas as the storm churned in the Atlantic, with landfall expected on Sunday. "Strengthening is forecast during the next day or so, and Henri is expected to become a hurricane tonight (Friday) or Saturday," the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest bulletin. Officials in the New England region -...
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Surfside Beach (Etats-Unis) (AFP) - Toni Capretta stands on a patch of Texas's Gulf coast where just seven months earlier the dunes were nearly her height. Now they are gone. Her town of Surfside Beach comes alive during the summer months, when Texans flock to the coast, but the landscape's saving grace is straight out of a winter wonderland: the beloved Christmas tree. The recycled evergreens are used to construct new dune barriers to protect the sensitive area from the ravages of powerful storms. Every winter, the Save our Beach association, which Capretta heads, gathers hundreds of voluntee...
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