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Buffalo braces for 'toxic brew' of flooding as 7
feet of snow start to melt
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• What's worse than 7 feet of snow piled up in
  front of your house? How about the flooding that
  comes once those 7 feet of snow melt? That's
  exactly what some Buffalonians will grapple with
  when temperatures Monday warm up to around 60
  degrees. Swift-water rescue teams and helicopters
  are already on standby in western New York in
  case anyone gets caught in the flooding. New York
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo said residents shouldn't wait
  until the last minute to evacuate if they think
  their homes will get inundated. He advised such
  homeowners to clear their basements of valuables.
  The governor said dealing with flooding is worse
  than the snow. "It's not water," Cuomo said.
  "It's a toxic brew. It has sewage in it it has
  runoff in it. State officials have beefed up
  stockpiles of generators and pumps and prepared
  almost 180,000 sandbags. After last week's
  nationwide bout with frigid weather, Buffalo
  temperatures could reach as 60 on Monday.
  Freezing temperatures are not expected again
  until Tuesday night. About 700,000 people are
  under a flood warning until Wednesday. Cuomo has
  asked residents to clean out storm drains in
  front of their houses "so the water has some
  place to go. So far, the county hasn't received
  reports of major flooding.

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  the question. Due for construction in 2015, the
  Sleuk Rith Institute, designed by
  Pritzker-winning Hadid, will be a landmark
  genocide memorial for Cambodia, breaking away
  from stereotypes of commemorative architecture.
  It has been nearly 35 years since the fall of the
  Khmer Rouge, a regime that slaughtered two
  million Cambodians, but the scars are yet to
  fade. "We believe that this project is one step
  in moving beyond memorial, to reconciliation and
  healing, it will be truly transformative, " Hadid
  said. From renderings of Hadid's design, we can
  see five majestic towers rising out of the
  surrounding forest like beautiful mutant trees.
  Raised on stilts for protection from floods, the
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