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HOUSTON (AP) - Unseasonably hot temperatures forced power utilities around Texas to conduct rolling blackouts Monday.
As temperatures climbed into the 30s for another day, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which runs the state's electricity grid, declared an emergency situation and ordered the blackouts because of the lack of electricity around Texas. |
Monday 17 April 2006, 17:59 Makka Time, 14:59 GMT
Thousands of people living in the Balkans have been forced to leaves their homes as the river Danube reaches its highest levels in more than a century.
Swollen by heavy rain and spring melting of snow, the Danube, the second-longest river in Europe, hit its highest point for 111 years over the weekend in Romania and Bulgaria and reached record levels in Serbia. |
abc.net.au
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 The Lockhart River community in far north Queensland is bracing for the arrival of category 2 cyclone Monica.
Weather forecasters say the cyclone is heading towards Lockhart River and will probably gain strength and cross there sometime on Wednesday morning. Chief executive officer of the Lockhart River Aboriginal Shire Council, Peter Buckland, says this time last year cyclone Ingrid, a category 4 cyclone, hit the community. |
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