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Ida’s torrents dump floods along Atlantic coast, kill four

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009

Updated: Thursday, November 12, 2009 23:11

Hurrican Ida

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Nelson Firth of Poquoson surveys Lodge Road in front of his home Thursday Nov. 12, 2009 in Poquoson, Va. Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to New York's Long Island, inundating streets and forcing some rescues of stranded drivers in hard-hit Virginia.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, pelting communities from North Carolina northward with gusty winds and heavy rains, inundating streets, stranding drivers and causing three deaths in hard-hit Virginia and one in North Carolina.

The downpours were the continuing aftermath of late-season Tropical Storm Ida, which quickly weakened once it made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday but still soaked a swath from Alabama to Georgia.

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