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Floods turn desert into "sea"
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8-28-2006 9:14 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c1f9c5ef-fc6a-4ee5-a43d-250483d055a1/AD671AE5-96E8-44FB-A3C6-E3AF600F7244/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060828/sc_nm/india_floods_dc_2" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060828/sc_nm/india_floods_dc_2" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060828/sc_nm/india_floods_dc_2"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95%3B_ylt=AsDY65OgsaoTBo3jNWrmUEAiANEA%3B_ylu=X3oDMTBjMTFqaXBkBHNlYwNwcnZkbGluaw--/*http://www.reuters.com"><IMG width="120" height="26" border="0" alt="Reuters" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/reuters120.gif" /></A> </DIV> Deadly floods in India turn desert area into "sea" </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060828/sc_nm/india_floods_dc_2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/95E92F12-C763-45AB-ACFA-E6FABDF6F6B7" alt="People carry their belongings through flood waters on a road in Kawas village, north of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, August 27, 2006. (Amit Dave/Reuters)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060828/sc_nm/india_floods_dc_2"><P> JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Monsoon rains and flooding have killed at least 130 people in India's western state of Rajasthan, officials said on Monday, with huge swathes of desert underwater. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060828/sc_nm/india_floods_dc_2"><P>Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Barmer, a sprawling district that borders Pakistan and is known for its sand dunes and widely spread villages. Dozens of people are missing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060828/sc_nm/india_floods_dc_2"><P>"The desert looks like a sea. 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