600GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Climate change: When rain, rain won't go awayhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/30/climate-change-rain/2124911/CHESTER, Vt. — "I'd never seen the river that high," says Susan Hammond. "But I was pretty certain the bridge wasn't going anywhere." She was wrong. On Aug. 28, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene's rains swelled the Williams River, smashing dams, flooding homes and carrying off the historic Lower Bartonsville Covered Bridge.Wed, 01 May 2013 04:19:00 +0200usaToday-92c3bcb010b48c933a8fc6fce168da7720130501041900Climate change: When rain, rain won't go awayhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/30/climate-change-rain/2124911/CHESTER, Vt. — "I'd never seen the river that high," says Susan Hammond. "But I was pretty certain the bridge wasn't going anywhere." She was wrong. On Aug. 28, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene's rains swelled the Williams River, smashing dams, flooding homes and carrying off the historic Lower Bartonsville Covered Bridge.Wed, 01 May 2013 01:17:00 +0200usaToday-8e29be8cf686a2663f5b88c959128a2b20130501011700ODPM looks to better flood managementhttp://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2013-04-29/odpm-looks-better-flood-managementGeisha Kowlessar Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Manager, US National Weather Service Caribbean Tsunami Warning Programme (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA) Christa von Hillebrandt and CEO, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management T&T, Dr Stephen Ramroop, chat after the formal opening of the eight session....Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:49:00 +0200Triniad-guardian-d6bf58c1c7537a181e113d2fd58a668420130430024900Severe weather, tornadoes could lash Plains overnighthttp://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/04/17/tornadoes-severe-weather-plains-midwest/2091419/A severe weather outbreak is possible in the central and southern Plains overnight.Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:23:00 +0200usaToday-38106237b18f90c002f5878e42f4be1f20130417232300