Tofias showed up at the Antigua Classic with White Wings and Wild Horses, identical 76-foot yachts built out of modern materials but with the classic lines-and wet ride-of a 1930s racer.

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After a wet April, a deluge in mid-May washed out gravel supporting the rails, and 15 cars on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train derailed.

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Rain has been forecast for Sunday's race and Button believes wet conditions would bring out the best in McLaren's MP4-25 car.

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Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency, state police extended shifts and National Guard called up 100 troops for snow duty as inches of wet, heavy snow fell across parts of the state -- knocking out power to nearly 180, 000 people.

CNN: March 6, 2013 -- Updated 2004 GMT (0404 HKT)

I. (AP) New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of wet, heavy snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York's Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast.

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"We've gotten out of some loss-making lines but in Japan relations with customers are wet, so it's hard to cut them off, " says Kobori.

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So extensive were the wet-season mudslides that in some years more mud and rock fell back into the canal than had been taken out in the first place.

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If the prospect of out-of-the-blue emailing is too intimidating, start by getting your feet wet with Twitter, which is almost entirely composed of mini mutual admiration societies anyway.

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