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dawg day

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2. those are more picturesque than the "almost ghost towns" in my state--
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 06:54 PM
Apr 2020

These are little river towns that kept getting flooded every year, so the government built new towns on higher ground. They're not quite ghost towns because a few people refused to leave and are stubbornly hanging onto cricky old houses on abandoned streets that fill up with river 4 times a year.

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