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Highland Gold Maple making syrup from Cape Breton woods for 25 years | SaltWire #capebreton #maple - More than 300 homes were flooded in the Russian city of Orenburg after the Ural River rose half a metre beyond its bursting point, officials said on Wednesday, as swiftly melting snow from the Ural Mountains triggered the worst flooding in decades.
"The night was restless," RIA state news agency citied Orenburg's First Deputy Mayor Alexei Kudinov as saying. The Ural River burst through a dam embankment in the city of Orsk in Orenburg region, of which Orenburg is the administrative centre, at the weekend.
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