With no access to public sewer lines and unaffordable septic systems, some families have dug ditches to divert the waste.
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Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
If reaching a safe shelter is not possible, either crouch down in your car and shield your head, or leave your vehicle and find shelter in a ditch or ravine.
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STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
Having survived the World War I trenches and Chicago gangland, the brothers return after seven years to their segregated Mississippi Delta hometown, Clarksdale.
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James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Apr. 2025
One of the samples was dug from a scar-like trench called Wessex Cleft and the other from the bottom of a young crater rim in South Massif.
Clean gutters at least twice a year and check the base of downspouts to make sure water can flow freely.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2025
With the prior landscaping experience, he was assigned outdoor duties ranging from climbing onto the roof to clean gutters, to scraping sediment from a parking lot, laying pine straw, and grinding paint from a stairwell.
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