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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - FEBRUARY 17: People walk along Michigan Avenue as temperatures hovered in the single-digits on February 17, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Temperatures are expected to remain below normal in the city for the remainder of the week. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - FEBRUARY 17: Ice collects along the shore of Lake Michigan as temperatures were in the single-digits for most of the day on February 17, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Temperatures are expected to remain below normal in the city for the remainder of the week. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - FEBRUARY 17: Ice collects along the shore of Lake Michigan as temperatures were in the single-digits for most of the day on February 17, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Temperatures are expected to remain below normal in the city for the remainder of the week. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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A general view of a flooded area in Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S., February 16, 2025 in this picture obtained from social media. @crispytaytortot via X/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.(via REUTERS)

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BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 16: Cars park at the entrance of a flooded housing development after a rain storm on February 16, 2025 outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brett Carlsen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 16: A vehicle makes its way through a flooded housing development after a rain storm on February 16, 2025 outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brett Carlsen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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NEON, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 17: Residents speak in the street downtown after the floodwaters subsided on February 17, 2025 in Neon, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Jon Cherry/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Jon Cherry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE - FEBRUARY 16: A historical marker is seen under flood waters on February 16, 2025 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky, Tennessee and parts of Florida and Georgia. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brett Carlsen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 16: Cars park at the entrance of a flooded housing development after a rain storm on February 16, 2025 outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brett Carlsen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 16: The Barren River floods over a roadway after a rain storm on February 16, 2025 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brett Carlsen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 16: The Barren River floods the back porch of a home after a rain storm on February 16, 2025 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brett Carlsen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 16: In this aerial view, the Barren River floods around Kentucky Route 185 on February 16, 2025 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brett Carlsen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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A stranded car is pictured next to a burned building near the Palisades Fire zone, in the aftermath of a storm in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on February 14, 2025. A monster rainstorm was drenching southern California on February 13, 2025, with officials in Los Angeles readying for flooding and landslides in areas burned by last month's huge wildfires. Heavy rain was falling across a swath of the state, with as much as six inches (15 centimeters) expected in some places, forecasters from the National Weather Service (NWS) said. (Photo by AGUSTIN PAULLIER / AFP)(AFP)

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PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 17: Business owners hug at a strip mall following rain storms that caused flooding on February 17, 2025 in Pikeville, Kentucky. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Jon Cherry/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Jon Cherry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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HAZARD, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 16: Law enforcement officers surround a vehicle that fell from a cliff near the North Fork Kentucky River on February 16, 2025 in Hazard, United States. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. Jon Cherry/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Jon Cherry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

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SIERRA MADRE, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 14: A resident walks atop a mudslide along his home the morning after it tumbled down from the Eaton Fire burn zone during a powerful atmospheric river storm on February 14, 2025 in Sierra Madre, California. The storm impacted a widespread swathe of Southern California with some mandatory evacuations ordered over fears of rock slides and and debris flows in recent burn scar areas including hillside areas impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)