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Four businesses in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle are recovering from damage caused by fire and smoke on the 23rd of the month. These businesses include Green Bean Coffee House, Szechuan Bistro, C.C. Teriyaki and Pho Tic Tac. Nearby businesses suffered extensive damage from the nearby smoke and water from the rescue effort. Firefighters also took extra precautions and evacuated a nearby apartment complex.

Missouri and Illinois are not unaccustomed to having parts of the state flood when the waters rise in the spring or summer. But recent floods have been baffling scientists as rivers crest and spill water into places that are typically dry this time of year.

After employees at the four-month-old Santa Clara County crime lab building packed their things for the night and locked the doors behind them, no one was the wiser to a vandal that slipped in to the state-of-the-art lab and took advantage of the full 24 hours it had to cause up to $1 million in damages. The vandal: water.

Scientists recently discovered that many recent earthquakes felt in the Midwestern states of the U.S. are really the aftershocks of large-scale earthquakes from centuries ago. The earthquakes on the West Coast, however, may be the aftershocks of earthquakes only dating back a decade or so.

Homes were left in a dangerous state in Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island after storms blew through the northeastern part of the United States, which required extensive documentation. The foundations of these beachfront properties were left exposed. Much of the beach on the island was left heavily eroded and a lot of sand and dunes were lost as a result of the storms.