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FEMA opens disaster-recovery center

A veteran of floods and ice storms, Charles Smith has had to rebuild the inside of one house and cut up a lot of downed tree limbs in the past 50 years. In May, fierce winds sent giant trees toppling in his front yard and deprived his rural Webb City home of electricity for several days. He had some flooding in his basement.

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Candles were lit one after another as a boombox blasted out a foot-moving rhythm that only Michael Jackson could create.
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