Its narrow streets and alleyways are impassable for armored vehicles.
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Floodwaters damaged some roads and made others impassable, officials said.
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Large piles of debris made areas of the house impassable.
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Trees grow up through the old roads, rendering them impassable.
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Downed trees, power lines and debris made many nearby roads impassable.
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Gas stations were abandoned and fallen trees made many roads impassable.
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Many roads are impassable and gas stations were destroyed, he said.
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Several state roads remained underwater and impassable in the coastal area.
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Three days after Maria hit, the streets were still largely impassable.
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Even if impassable, it was always the shortest route, Google assured.
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He is as imposing, as impassable, now as he ever was.
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Main roads to Mogadishu are impassable, with large areas of crops damaged.
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A main roadway to the airport was impassable, stranding passengers in terminals.
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Unceasing rain that damaged the support system rendered the Pfeiffer bridge impassable.
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Food and medicine are dwindling, especially for those isolated by impassable roads.
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Eventually, Earth would wind up surrounded by an impassable field of debris.
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The real fun is the driving over things that before seemed impassable.
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"Google Maps shows there's a way — but it's impassable," he said, adding.
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Streets are filled with brownish water and remain impassable in many places.
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Some roads could remain impassable for a couple of days, officials said.
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During the monsoon, landslides blocked trains and flooded roads, rendering them impassable.
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His deliveries took longer than normal because many roads were still impassable.
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But a storm rolled in, and the roads froze and became impassable.
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Still many roads are impassable, preventing many people from reaching medical facilities.
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Residents began ditching their cars after heavy flooding made the roadways impassable.
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There are piles of rubble so high that entire streets remain impassable.
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Depending on the tides, some sections of the trail are periodically impassable.
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But now the border is impassable and the tunnel is cut halfway.
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Depending on the tides, some sections of the trail are periodically impassable.
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Downed trees and power lines, and debris have made some Lawrence roads impassable.
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Most radio stations are down and many roads remain impassable, according to Reuters.
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The Mountains of Kong form a magnificent, impassable mountain range in West Africa.
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The roads to access the area were impassable up until this past weekend.
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Many roads remain impassable, including a stretch of I-463 near Cumberland, Gov.
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That flood made the road they depend on impassable, resident Misty Hale said.
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Access to Wilmington is limited as roads may be impassable due to flooding.
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But what we see of Antía's adolescence suggests that their rift is impassable.
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So deep that there now exists an impassable chasm between rich and poor.
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They were making a huge mess and making the road impassable for traffic.
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Entire regions of the Arctic Circle once impassable now are accessible and exploitable.
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Rebel Rebel's nearly impassable aisle means curation of this kind dominates over browsing.
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"I don't think they realized it was impassable," he told the Associated Press.
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Impassable roads have made it difficult for rescue workers to help those affected.
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Heavy aerial and artillery bombardment had at times made the Castello Road impassable.
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Alternate highway routes have been mapped out, in case the interstate becomes impassable.
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They have struggled to contact remote towns, and many roads are still impassable.
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Phone and power failures spread across the city, and some roads were impassable.
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Roads were found to be impassable and huge trees had fallen over them.
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Some of it runs through impassable terrain, some alongside cities like El Paso.
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Many state roads and interstates are still impassable due to dangerous floodwaters or damage.
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It's starting in Rwanda, a country with sometimes impassable roads and poor health infrastructure.
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The canyons were impassable, the freeways were closed, and the refuges were filling up.
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The city said that some 200 vehicles were abandoned and many roads remained impassable.
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Many roads are impassable because gunmen patrol them, stealing aid supplies and killing drivers.
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When an edge is pinned with a stake it acts like an impassable barrier.
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MANY ROADS IMPASSABLE FROM LARGE DEBRIS, AND MORE WITHIN URBAN OR HEAVILY WOODED PLACES.
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I didn't grow up in an environment where the racial walls were so impassable.
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No roads run to Manaus other than dangerous dirt tracks impassable in wet weather.
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Major highways in the Northern Territory remain unsealed and often impassable when it rains.
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The two major bridges spanning the Euphrates are impassable, cutting the city in half.
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Water and mud made many roads impassable, and thousands of people were without electricity.
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She said it's common for the highway to become impassable when there's heavy rain.
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They may just set up impassable roadblocks that preclude access to avenues to fertility.
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Emergency services were working Thursday to provide food even as many roads were impassable.
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Vehicle-impassable mountains carve the country into a warren of valleys and narrow roadways.
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Winds would howl 2000 to 220 miles per hour, and landslides would make roads impassable.
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Photographs showed damaged shop fronts and roads left impassable by twisted metal and roofing panels.
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Schools across much of the effected Northeast have cancelled Wednesday's classes as roads remained impassable.
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"We had a plow come down our street overnight, but it's impassable again," she said.
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Local officials across the South closed schools, opened shelters, imposed curfews and declared roads impassable.
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They lived on the open prairie, which was parched by heat, impassable in the rains.
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Without the locks, a section of rapids would make the water impassable for commercial ships.
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The wall does not have to cover remote, impassable stretches of the border, he said.
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Roads to rural districts further north were swamped and impassable after torrential rains on Sunday.
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She recounted how knee-deep water covered her lawn and driveway and made roads impassable.
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High waves battered nearby Scituate, making roads impassable and turning parking lots into small ponds.
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The older part of the city has warrens of alleys that are impassable to military vehicles.
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Police in Alabama said roads in parts of the state were impassable, including Anniston and Oxford.
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The emergency route would be needed if Highway 130, which has experienced severe cracking, becomes impassable.
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Cars could be seen lying on their sides and parts of the road were clearly impassable.
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Currently just one road to Hobby is open and all roads near Houston Intercontinental remain impassable.
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In New York City, office workers were marooned in office buildings as the streets became impassable.
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Worn streets earn jolt scores: bumpy,jarring, teeth-rattling and impossible — or should that be impassable?
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Rain that had churned the ground into impassable sludge days earlier was nowhere to be seen.
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In the early game, most of your deserted island will be blocked off by impassable rivers.
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He estimated that half the island's roads were at least partially submerged, and some were impassable.
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When it stopped raining, I ventured out to visit the residency, but the creek was impassable.
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Less ice means more boats, which can now make their way through the once impassable ocean.
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Such an attack could fill Earth orbit with hurtling debris that would make it impassable indefinitely.
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We were driving home when we saw the flashlights telling us to slow, the road impassable.
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Because the flooding made the roads impassable, everyone had to spend a couple of nights at NASA.
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County officials say 75 homes have been completely covered by lava, and roads have been made impassable.
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Moreover, the older part of the city has warrens of alleys that are impassable to military vehicles.
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Their mother soon woke up and tried the front door, but the haze made their hall impassable.
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"Apparently, the roads out to the town are impassable, due to flooding and debris, " Kreyszig told CNN.
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Once winter sets in, all but a few stretches of the high-altitude border become impassable anyway.
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Roads were clogged or impassable throughout much of the region, with stretches of Interstate 95 shut down.
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It has reopened, though detours on flooded or impassable roads inland may slow motorists from reaching them.
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Photos posted to social media showed buried cars and sidewalks and streets made impassable by the snow.
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People stood gaping in the roads, which shattered glass and assorted debris had rendered impassable to cars.
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Heat makes the trail brutally uncomfortable in summer; the snow and ice make it impassable in winter.
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The rainy season hits during these lean months, too, turning many roads into rivers of impassable mud.
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But watching thousands of people scream, seemingly unheard, across an impassable physical barrier only made me feel deflated.
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With their route made impassable, six buses broke off and headed to territory held by the Syrian government.
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McCrory stressed Tuesday that many roads remain flooded and impassable, including a stretch of Interstate 95 near Cumberland.
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During the warmer seasons, the route through the Zabolotie (about 350 km or roughly 218 miles) is impassable.
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Farther south police and National Guard troops still had the main road closed, saying the road was impassable.
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And what if it stretched for hundreds of miles, its beauty interrupted only by rugged, virtually impassable terrain?
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The roads, impassable by vehicles, were covered in mud from the landslides and power lines littered the streets.
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A stew of floodwater, mud, tree limbs and other debris covered the highway in Montecito, making it impassable.
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We left the truck at an impassable creek crossing and set off walking through a patch of jungle.
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But her long driveway was blocked by mountains of mud — impassable even for an ambulance or a tractor.
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There are many communities in the highlands that have been isolated by fallen bridges, impassable roads and landslides.
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Huron has no movie theater, no newspaper, no pharmacy, and the main highway is impassable in heavy rains.
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Some roads were left impassable, and rescuers had to extract people who had been hemmed in by floodwaters.
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So the Northern Sea Route (NSR) through once-impassable waters has emerged as a potential global shipping artery.
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On the outskirts of Sinjar the road became impassable: damaged, clogged with military trucks, and littered with debris.
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Roads have been so impassable in Kinston, North Carolina, the National Guard has used helicopters to distribute water.
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Water has been creeping up to historic buildings and has left a number of roads impassable in Galveston.
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Small towns notified residents that their plows might not keep up with the rapid snowfall, leaving streets impassable.
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Tiny Gangotri is so high in the mountains that it closes in winter, made impassable by the snow.
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By 10,000 years ago, the region was covered in coniferous forest, making the region once again impassable to humans.
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Some interstate highways were impassable overnight going into Saturday and multiple traffic collisions had been reported, Deal's statement said.
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With some roads impassable because of debris and burned-out vehicles from the violence, normal commercial life was disrupted.
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Roads may not even exist — and if they do, they might be impassable or change from day to day.
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But sceptics point out that much of Brazil's border runs through rainforest that is impassable and hard to monitor.
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Once Mango was off the stage, Armada made it nearly impossible for him to recover with impassable edge guards.
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Along the coast, entire neighborhoods remain submerged, streets are still impassable and residents and towns are struggling to rebuild.
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His wife, Toby Perlman — a sunny, empathetic presence — is with him, and there's a shovel for clearing impassable intersections.
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Over the decades since, the company chiseled new rail lines out of impassable terrain and swallowed up its competitors.
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Your starting area is walled off by impassable rivers, meaning that at least half of your island is unavailable.
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But Harvey dropped nearly four feet of rain in the area, and most roads into the city remained impassable.
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"Any direction you try coming into the city -- from 20 to 40 miles out, roads are impassable," he said.
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Flooding was so bad in Houston that hundreds of cars were abandoned after rising water made some roads impassable.
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Grand Bahama Highway, a lifeline connecting the entire length of the island, was impassable in many places for days.
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I've seen record rains in Kazakhstan make the steppes there impassable to travel for the first time in memory.
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Roads go unplowed and become impassable; snowfall demolishes traction; black ice forms on road surfaces, which can be deadly.
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And the impending rainy season will make reaching vulnerable people even more difficult, as rivers flood and roads become impassable.
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But when she went into labor on September 21, many of the roads were still impassable because of Hurricane Florence.
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Impassable roads have made it hard for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and others to distribute food, water and fuel.
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With more than 95% of the wireless cell sites down, and roads impassable, information trickles out, all of it devastating.
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Visions from India presents ghost towns, purgatorial waiting rooms, mythically impassable gates, skeleton dogs, unopened lunchboxes, literal no-mans lands.
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Diverting from established routes through Armenia and Anatolia to the south served little purpose unless conflict made the trackways impassable.
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Dirt roads turn into impassable mud baths in the rains, schoolrooms may not exist and the community can be hostile.
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This storied route through the Arctic Ocean was, for centuries, thought impassable, because it was entirely locked up in ice.
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"Roads all over are impassable due to extreme flooding," said Hawaii resident Lili Koi on Twitter late on Friday night.
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She had begun to crawl instead of walk, and was faced with a steep drop-off ahead that appeared impassable.
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What this means is you'll regularly come across impassable points that you can't actually cross until later in the game.
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Millions were without power and water in the aftermath of the storm; communications systems were down and some roads impassable.
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The alternative is a rutted dirt road so extravagantly potholed and seasonally impassable that it is mostly, and sensibly, avoided.
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Several roads are expected to become impassable because of flooding, and high winds with gusts of 50 to 211 m.p.h.
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The insurgents are directly threatening important provincial capitals and have again made important roadways hazardous or impassable to government forces.
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I had several "wow" moments when I figured out something particularly clever, but didn't hit any obstacles that seemed impassable.
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To add them, the headache is identifying a smooth, meandering path devoid of cracks or impassable berms of broken ice.
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But if that sibling were to suddenly and tragically pass away, that gulf between yourself and your family could seem impassable.
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Aid agencies say it is difficult to deliver food to many of the hurricane's victims, in part because roads remain impassable.
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In the villages, there are no shops or any commercial activity, since the mountain roads are often impassable during heavy rains.
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Africa still has a thin road network; in rural areas the roads are often primitive and impassable after a heavy shower.
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Heavy rains and flooding have made many roads around Houston impassable, and 911 services have been overwhelmed by calls for help.
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Some roads were difficult and impassable but most streets in Havana are at least as good as the streets in Boston.
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Even if anyone wanted to help, Taliban insurgents have made her area of Kunduz impassable to aid groups and government officials.
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On a last minute trip to the H-E-B grocery, before the roads were impassable, neighbors joked about slashing prices.
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"Any direction you try coming into the city, from 253.95 to 261.8 miles out, roads are impassable," Mayor Bill Saffo said.
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And the taller the fence, the more impassable it is for some bats and birds, like the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
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Now, with the stroke of a pen, Trump has turned that three-hour trip from Seattle to Vancouver into an impassable route.
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"'Wall' shall mean a contiguous, physical wall or other similarly secure, contiguous, and impassable physical barrier," the order said in its definitions.
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Much of the county lost power, and local officials have reported numerous impassable roads due to downed trees and other storm debris.
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Roads to the south, where the city has spread out as it has grown, were initially impassable - damaged or blocked by debris.
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The center of the town of Triftern was flooded and Mayor Walter Czech said roads to the town's hilltop school were impassable.
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The bombings shook the ground, left residents cowering in their homes and made streets impassable, according to anti-government activists in Aleppo.
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Strong storms brought 22016 to 216 inches of rain to the Houston area on Monday morning, leaving roads impassable and stranding drivers.
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As of publication Moirai is still listed on Steam, but unfortunately launching it will only bring players to an impassable title screen.
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"The rapidly freezing temperatures has caused this stretch to be deemed impassable for motorists," the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development said.
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They remember the impassable roads, the trees snapped in half, the sunken boats and the widespread gutting of houses and other buildings.
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The NWS said it expected three feet of snow and wind gusts to reach 60 mph, causing whiteout conditions and impassable drifts.
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There was no running water, and when it rained the refugees' tents filled with mud and the camp's rudimentary roads became impassable.
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In our minds, these challenges borrow the weight of anxiety from the others, so one challenge appears to be an impassable roadblock.
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The neighbor said all the docks in the area were destroyed, the roads were impassable and everyone was stuck in their homes.
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Because of the heavy equipment involved, the roads to the sites are rutted and, when it rains, nearly impassable because of mud.
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Officials across the region warned motorists about potential whiteout conditions on roads made even more hazardous or potentially impassable by snow and debris.
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"Denying the '1992 consensus', inciting confrontation across the Taiwan Strait and severing socioeconomic and cultural ties is an impassable, evil path," it said.
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Farmland was covered, streets descended into impassable pools of water, shopping centers were inundated with only roofs of cars peeking above the water.
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The island is close to the size of France, and in the rainy season the bush roads turn into impassable rivers of mud.
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Even more time could be saved during the rainy season, when many of Rwanda's roads become impassable, says Zipline's co-founder, Will Hetzler.
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Today in many places worldwide, attempts are made to deliver medical supplies by motorcycle or pickup truck over roads that are frequently impassable.
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They told troopers the river they crossed getting to the bus had become impassable for the return due to high, swift-running water.
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The historic city center of Homs, which rebels gave up in 2014 after a crippling siege, is still an impassable maze of rubble.
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That is what happened with Hurricane Harvey in Texas in 2017, Mr. Fugate said: Hospitals survived the flooding, but the roads were impassable.
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In the suburbs, travel on major highways also came to a halt, and icy conditions and countless accidents made some side streets impassable.
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Mayor Tomás Regalado of Miami said a similar fraction of his city was dark, with roads left impassable and traffic lights not working.
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Maps online showed Highway 90, a path I thought would be just as impassable as the first one, as the only open way.
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Two water mains on the Upper West Side broke within days of each other, sending water gushing into the streets, making them impassable.
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People in Houston and other areas of Texas were asked not to leave their homes, even if they flooded, as roads were impassable.
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"Severe weather conditions and impassable roads currently preventing our crews from safely accessing storm-related outage areas," the utility said on its website.
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VILLA TUNARI, Bolivia — The road to Evo Morales's political stronghold, in the heart of Bolivia's coca farming region, is nearly impassable these days.
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During the morning rush, Manhattan-bound trains squeezed by the wreckage on one track because the accident had made the second track impassable.
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The route to statehood seems as impassable as some of the island roads in the aftermath of the unimaginably fierce hurricane last September.
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" The order goes on to specify later that "'Wall' shall mean a contiguous, physical wall or other simeilarly secure, contiguous, and impassable physical barrier.
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Also in Brenham, some children had to spend the night at school because high water made roads impassable to school buses and parents' vehicles.
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Two highways leading into Waverly, U.S. Route 460 and State Route 40, were left impassable by heavy debris from the storm, state police said.
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What's next: Houston's mayor declared yesterday that most of the region's major roads remain "impassable" and both of the city's major airports remain closed.
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"The state of our roads has further deteriorated to the extent that some sections of the national road network have become impassable," Gumbo said.
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Her only available escape route, in mid-November, was across "one of the cruelest mountain passes in the Pyrenees," frequently impassable even in summer.
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When we arrived at where our guesthouse was supposed to be, we found the road leading to it impassable because of unexpectedly heavy snowfall.
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About 70 percent of the city remained without electricity, and roads were not only impassable but traffic lights were not working, city officials said.
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One street in Sakado-shi- Akao was impassable but had a pristine view of Mount Fuji in the distance under a clear blue sky.
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The west of the country was being chewed by the weather; there were power cuts, roads made impassable, tin roofs pulled off farm sheds.
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Helicopters were used to evacuate people trapped in hillside areas of Santa Barbara County where heavy rain made some roads impassable due to flooding.
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However, almost daily downpours over the past month - a period when the rainy season usually tapers off - have left the unpaved roads there impassable.
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"If the government keeps meddling in the markets to ensure growth, then this road will become impassable," said Mr. Li, the professor in Shanghai.
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For others, that knowledge makes island life oppressive, the ocean an impassable chasm between the life you have and the life you dream of.
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The nation is nearly one million square miles, and much of that is thick, impassable rain forest, with rebel groups lurking here and there.
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And automated taxis will be able to tell human passengers that certain parts of the city are impassable due to weather conditions, says Gail.
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There are currently 700 miles of fence along that track, with another approximately 1,200 miles either open, nearly impossible to actually build on or impassable.
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But the Texas and California sectors were nearly impassable that summer, as the Obama administration struggled to stem the flow of minors into the country.
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The Nebraska State Patrol was warning residents to avoid driving, posting images on social media showing roads made impassable by a heavy blanket of snow.
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The road that runs through it did not appear on digital maps; impassable for so long under the guerrillas, it had been all but forgotten.
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I went out with the US National Guard to hard-to-reach communities that were cut off by mudslides and impassable roads after the storm.
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I loved falling asleep with my family safe on a blizzardy night when the streets were impassable and a blanket of peace covered our town.
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Technicians, the F.A.A. said, had found the final miles to the site "impassable" and had to use chain saws to bring in personnel and equipment.
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Potentially life-threatening blowing snow was expected to make roads in the region impassable, especially in central and northern North Dakota, per the weather service.
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Many of Houston's streets were rendered impassable, complicating the focus on rescuing residents isolated by floodwaters or trapped in areas where the water was rising.
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Middlesex County could see 24 to 24 inches, which will "make many roads impassable and may produce widespread power outages," according to the Weather Service.
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Levees have been breached in the last several days, forcing sudden evacuations, making roads impassable and leaving part of one town on the Mississippi underwater.
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In a second, thousands of car accidents will pile up on every road and highway in a 225-mile radius around the city, making many impassable.
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Between Orange and Beaumont, the surface roads were almost entirely impassable, turning the rural enclaves into literal islands in a sea of fast-moving, polluted waters.
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Between Orange and Beaumont, the surface roads were almost entirely impassable, turning the rural enclaves into literal islands in a sea of fast moving, polluted waters.
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Much of the city of nearly 600,000 would be without power, water, and sewer service, and freeway interchanges would likely be undermined and impassable, snarling transportation.
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Some of the unfinished ones came to a dead end in impassable gorges, or were abandoned because different stretches turned out to be impossible to join.
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Chimanimani National Game Park has not been spared, as the plant displaces other vegetation and creates thickets that are nearly impassable for wildlife, environmental experts say.
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Update Sue and Jay Pendleton were booked on an Antarctic trip when something more enticing came along: a luxury cruise through the once impassable Northwest Passage.
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Several homes were damaged, and the main road through the village was impassable because of the debris and rocks, and entirely washed-out in some places.
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If the space-junk problem gets extreme, a disastrous chain of collisions could spiral out of control and surround Earth in an impassable field of debris.
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The Mexican Grey Wolf is one of over a hundred endangered species that would be at risk from an impassable border wall between the US and Mexico.
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This impassable membrane is why neurological conditions like epilepsy, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's are so hard to treat: 98 percent of drugs simply can't get to the brain.
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He and his neighbors rise early in the morning to walk miles along a nearly impassable dirt road to work on coffee, pepper and betel nut plantations.
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Onemi said one bridge in the area was impassable and some roads were closed as crews worked to restore electricity to some 21,000 homes left without power.
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The park service is working to bulldoze almost a mile of hardened lava out of the way on nearby Highway 11, which has been impassable, she added.
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There were many impassable bridges and roads from rain swollen rivers and dam breaches, prompting thousands of residents to evacuate in Nebraska, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
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One lock on the Ohio River became impassable last week, halting vessels moving to and from the Mississippi River until as late as March 9, they said.
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This makes it excellent territory for armed groups like the Colombian FARC to run drugs under the cover of near-impassable jungle, and for migrants to pass.
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Students and workers had made roads impassable by setting up barricades to block the army, so I jumped on my bicycle and pedaled furiously toward the gunfire.
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But since then, heavy rains have caused floodwaters to rise inside, cutting off the team's only route to escape and making the way virtually impassable for rescuers.
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"The network of rural roads may be rendered impassable throughout the state of Georgia, isolating residences and farms from access to public services, " the governor said Sunday.
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I had planned to make the classic coastal drive from Los Angeles to Big Sur, but falling rocks and mudslides had rendered parts of Highway 216 impassable.
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As scientists noted in the press conference, a cruiseship carried tourists through the Northwest Passage in 2016, a route that for a long time was considered impassable.
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In many cases, they're called public roads, but they might be blown out or impassable using vehicles, so I would walk 60 or 100 miles between human habitation.
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Rescue workers are struggling to navigate Grand Bahama island, with the airport under six feet of water and roads made impassable by the rubble of thousands of homes.
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To the east, parts of Beaumont and surrounding communities remained isolated, with roads impassable and the Neches River still swelling, rising eight feet higher than the previous record.
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The storm dropped 47 inches of rain in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area, and most roads into the cities remain impassable, making relief shipments of bottled water difficult.
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"Based on what we've seen so far, power lines are down, shingles have been ripped off roofs and some roads are impassable due to flooding," said Mr. Sands.
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As many as 820 people - most of them foreigners - were on Mount Rinjani when the quake struck, making two trails impassable, Sutopo said on Twitter late on Sunday.
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In New Jersey, Middlesex County could see 18 to 24 inches, which will "make many roads impassable and may produce widespread power outages," according to the Weather Service.
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"While the island itself did not sustain severe damage, at this time most roads leading to the Wilmington area are impassable due to flooding," the town's website says.
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A warmer climate may allow once-impassable mountain ranges to be traversed by the bats, which in turn assists their ability to mate and spread disease among new colonies.
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A 2014 study from IHS Global Insight found that a major storm with roads that are "impassable" could have a significant economic impact for just a one-day shutdown.
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But sometimes the game feels hard for the sake of being hard, and when you come across a seemingly impassable puzzle, it brings the whole experience to a halt.
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The blaze, which began in the canyons around San Bernardino and spread quickly in high winds, has already burned up 30,000 acres, destroyed homes and made Interstate 15 impassable.
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There are too few sidewalks in Dhaka, and those that exist are often impassable, occupied by vendors and masses of poor citizens who make their homes in curbside shanties.
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With roads impassable and rivers still near record highs in West Virginia, local officials said they did not know what the toll in death and destruction would ultimately be.
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Determined tourists of the highway had to endure many unpaved sections, which, in Iowa, for example, could turn into an impassable kind of mud called gumbo when it rained.
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East Sixth Street, with blocks of clubs at the center of downtown Austin, is a blare of music and an impassable throng of bodies through most of the festival.
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But many of the obstacles that pregnant women face after an earthquake, flood or hurricane -- like impassable roads, power outages and contaminated water -- can crop up just about anywhere.
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Forty-six inches would eventually fall in a couple days, making the roads impassable and making it impossible for me to get to work as the whip's communications director.
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They urged those needing to use the Molokai shelter to get there soon because of concerns the main highway on the south coast of the island could become impassable.
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Residents of the Carolinas were starting to confront the storm's after-effects, including power outages, impassable roads, and sewage spilling into flooded areas, while the hurricane's remnants headed north.
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An escalation in air and artillery strikes in recent weeks around the road has made it virtually impassable, putting hundreds of thousands of people in Aleppo under effective siege.
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Matthew left more than 100 roads impassable in the Charleston area Saturday morning, and damage assessments had yet to be completed in a large portion of the state, officials said.
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Such stories tend to be as much about failure as anything else, forcing players to recognize and accept the impassable gap between their choices and the unintended consequences of them.
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While no injuries had been reported early on Friday morning, houses had suffered flood and wind damage and a number of roads were impassable due to collapsed trees and poles.
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In Waverly, a town southeast of Richmond, officials imposed a curfew after a suspected tornado on Wednesday afternoon left roads impassable and a 2-year-old boy among the dead.
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During the day, he haunts the mountains like a ghost, his head perpetually craned toward the sky, scanning for the drones that search the impassable mountains for signs of life.
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China is thought to be seeking to take advantage of the melting ice caps, as areas of the Arctic that were once impassable now constitute a gateway to greater trade.
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National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Dellicarpini said there were reports of downed trees and power lines around the region and roads that were impassable in spots due to flash flooding.
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But because of damaged infrastructure -- impassable roads, non-operational seaports and airports, and a lack of communication lines -- getting those supplies to people in need has proved much more difficult.
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On the hot summer day—under the scrutiny of managers—the expanse seemed like an impassable desert, and the idea was to give workers a feeling of strength in numbers.
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The Chinese appear impassable on some of the issues that the White House is most concerned about, including their subsidies to cutting-edge industries like robotics, aerospace and artificial intelligence.
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In addition to flooding and damage, the storm has left some roads impassable and some communities cut off from aid, making rescue and recovery a difficult and dangerous task. 3.
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The confrontation happened at Backwater Bridge, on a highway linking the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and Bismarck, N.D. Burned-out trucks and a police barricade have made the bridge impassable.
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That the Northwest Passage, once nearly impassable due to ice, will see a carnivalesque cruise ship power through its waters later this year is just one darkly humorous, yet dystopian, example.
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Unable to get back to their own homes due to impassable roads, employees have had to sleep at the hospital, but hospital leaders said they still volunteer to work extra hours.
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The University of California isn't the only loser here; the companies that already placed bets on it being the patent victor must now tread a difficult though not impassable IP landscape.
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Will the President -- and his voters -- settle for an amalgam of walls, fences and electronically monitored border areas broken by areas of impassable topographical features like rivers and mountains, for instance?
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Metal gates in affluent neighborhoods like Caparra had been crumpled like cardboard, while makeshift trails leading to wooden houses in the barrios of Guaynabo had been made impassable by fallen trees.
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We have, in the 12,000- and 13,000-foot mountains surrounding town, a series of lakes, lakes that are typically buried under feet of snow, the roads that lead to them, impassable.
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At 38 feet, "a large number of homes are flooded in northeast Jackson," water will enter some buildings downtown and roads will become impassable, city officials and the weather service said.
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Justin Anderson, a construction worker, was riding on a bus on his way home from work Friday when the flooding made the streets impassable, leaving him stranded at a transit center downtown.
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Sunday to drive to his duty station downtown but "could not find a path" because flooding caused by tropical storm Harvey had made many roads impassable, Acevedo said at a news conference.
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Islamic State fighters last week counter-attacked government forces and allied Iran-backed militias along the highway connecting Deir al-Zor city to Palmyra in central Syria, temporarily rendering the road impassable.
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Practically every form of computing and electronics has derived a direct benefit from the unremitting efforts of semiconductor engineers who have repeatedly scaled seemingly impassable barriers in the electrical and materials sciences.
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Although the storm has since been downgraded to a tropical depression and lumbered west, today, Wilmington remains all but cut off from the outside world, with the major highways flooded and impassable.
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While early morning tourists at the Acropolis were treated to a snow-globe scene, locals had to contend with roads made impassable by ice and many schools were closed in the Athens region.
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But, like Florence, it wreaked most of its destruction through rain, which caused landslides and flash floods, inundating fields and ruining the crops in them, making roads impassable and cutting off electricity supplies.
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Already, a warming climate has allowed a cruise ship to plow through the previously impassable Northwest Passage, and is making it possible for vineyards to thrive in typically chilly places like Nova Scotia.
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Some children, in impeccable blue uniforms, walk to a school in the town of Chapotin - a trip that takes an hour and a half over a narrow path, impassable in the rainy season.
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More of everything, it seems, and that has meant fewer ways for cyclists to go all the way from coast to coast without bumping into something impassable for a person on two wheels.
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Walls, doors, and even enemies who were a threat or an impassable barrier to the little boy become literally nothing, crumbling beneath the feet of the blob as it careens throughout the laboratory.
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The region is dotted with scores of villages clinging to the sides of lakes and levees, an area that used to be impassable but for boat traffic until a half-dozen years ago.
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Although they weren't used in World War II to the extent they were used in the First World War, troops still relied on horses and mules to cross terrain impassable to mechanized units.
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"The extent of the damage in the center of the island is not known yet because there are still a lot of roads that are impassable," he said in San Juan, the capital.
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Some children, in impeccable blue uniforms, walk to a school in the town of Chapotin — a trip that takes an hour and a half over a narrow path, impassable in the rainy season.
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The governor said that rescuers were able to bring 23 truckloads of food, water, and other supplies to Wilmington — where access had been effectively cut off after rainfall Saturday night made the roads impassable.
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Colossal mudslides that swept through Southern California on Tuesday left 83 people dead, damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings, and prompted scores of rescues, many of them by air because roads were completely impassable.
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Some models of the Big Bang theory predict that the inflation that stretched space at the beginning of time also produced an infinite number of "pocket universes," separated by impassable inflated areas of space.
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Copies have slowly made their way to Iraq, because the typical land route from the publishing houses in Beirut to the bookshops of Baghdad are impassable because of the Islamic State, Mr. Makiya said.
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This creates opportunities for oil and gas companies that — despite operational difficulties related to extreme weather, impassable ice, and 24-hour darkness — are poised to gain from increased access to the Arctic's hydrocarbon wealth.
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Culverts too small to accommodate spring runoff or large debris became impassable barriers to migration, and loose dirt from roadways washed into streams, smothering spawning gravels and turning crystalline river systems into muddy waterways.
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With floodwaters receding more slowly than anticipated because of high tides, and many roads still impassable, Sonoma County authorities said evacuation orders and "shelter-in-place" advisories remained in effect for thousands of residents.
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It has also cut travel time to the county seat — now a mere three hours rather than a full day's rough drive along a 15-year-old dirt road, which was impassable in winter.
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Like the time Marc Jacobs needed to overnight its new collection from the factory in Italy to New York Fashion Week, and a fluke snowstorm hit the Italian countryside, making the mountain route impassable.
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When the all-star team of scientists disembarked to stretch their legs amid this temperate rain forest, they encountered knee-deep mosses and nail-sized thorns, a land as impassable as the Amazon jungle.
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Depending on how long the shutdown lasts, parks that are open today might be forced to close if snow falls and roads become impassable, because the park workers who normally clear roads are furloughed.
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People attempting to travel to areas to make phone calls or get help or medicine are having trouble getting around, people familiar with the federal response said, with some bridges and main roads impassable.
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Rescuers have searched frantically for the missing after rivers of mud and boulders flooded through neighborhoods in and near Montecito, an affluent seaside community east of Santa Barbara, demolishing homes and leaving roads impassable.
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Damaged infrastructure, such as impassable roads, and the lack of working government vehicles, such as patrol cars and ambulances, are adding to the frustration, Iram Lewis, a member of Parliament, said on AC360 Friday.
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New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key, reportedly confirmed two deaths at a news conference but figures for injuries or casualties will take time due to the fact that the areas hit hardest have impassable roadways.
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She and her staff were working 15-hour days to keep up with the flow of patients whose own kidney clinics were flooded or who couldn't get to their usual centers because of impassable roads.
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The city is still recovering from flooding this month after a severe thunderstorm made much of the city impassable because a turbine that powered the majority of the city's pumping systems failed on Aug. 9.
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Rescuers have been searching frantically for the missing since rivers of mud and boulders plowed through neighborhoods in and near Montecito, an affluent seaside community east of Santa Barbara, demolishing homes and leaving roads impassable.
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In Beaumont, a city of just under 120,000 people about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the Gulf of Mexico, authorities said all service roads were impassable and two hospitals were inaccessible, the Beaumont Enterprise reported.
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Hundreds of villages, isolated by power outages, impassable roads and downed telephone lines, are being helped by helicopter teams from the U.S. Army's First Armored Division's Combat Aviation Brigade and the 101st Airborne Division's "Dustoff" unit.
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Along the coast, the city of Wilmington, with a population of about 120,000, was effectively cut off from the rest of the state, after rainfall Saturday night made roadways into and out of the city impassable.
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Tennessee emergency officials reported Tuesday that three people suffered severe burns, almost 12,000 are without power, thousands of residents have been evacuated, roads blocked by trees and power lines remain impassable and most schools are closed.
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It had frightened me my first year, the sound ricocheting off the walls as the little bombs fell into the streets below, where everyone knew not to be; they were impassable for a good half hour.
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Sixteen rivers in North Carolina are in major flood stage, according to the state's governor, Roy Cooper, with critical highways impassable and the city of Wilmington still largely cut off from the outside world by floodwaters.
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By the time Matthew Sykes got his clothes on to flee, one end of his second-floor hallway was choked with thick black smoke, as was a stairwell, making it impassable for he and his wife.
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On Tuesday, a luxury cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 moneyed passengers and a crew of 600-plus will kick off a voyage that will take it through the Arctic's Northwest Passage, which was once thought impassable.
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In a place where people rely on husky sleds and skidoos to get from A to B, and roads are non-existent or impassable in winter, he understands the importance of selling cans as well as bottles.
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After decades of being able to cross the line at will, families, Native Americans, members of church congregations, and employees at hospitals and small businesses now find themselves confronted with a sometimes impassable and, occasionally hostile, barrier.
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Through three pontificates, the church had tried to reach an accord with China, but the fate of those seven bishops, and the question of who gets to appoint new bishops in the country, had been impassable barriers.
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Ricardo A. Rosselló said that just 30 percent of the Puerto Rico Police Department reported for work just after the storm "because they were victims of the devastation as well," dealing with ruined homes and impassable roads.
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LOS PARGOS, Costa Rica — Impassable in spots during much of the rainy season, the dirt road to this village on the northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica is a rutted, dust-spewing monster during the dry months.
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Record floodwaters have ravaged Nebraska, but as they begin to recede, an alarming reality has come into view: Hundreds of miles of highway remain impassable, bridges have been wiped out and routine drives have become treacherous ordeals.
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A government official briefed on the matter said with limited jet fuel in place and impassable roads, Houston airports may officially reopen this week but are not likely to resume anything close to full operations until next week.
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At the same time, it has also put pressure on this bedroom community, clogging the streets with nearly impassable traffic during rush hour and pushing rents up to levels only seen in downtown Miami or on Miami Beach.
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And as the downgraded behemoth continues to drench North Florida, people downstate are trickling out of doors to survey the damage — to the extent they can, with power lines down, streets impassable, bridges blocked, and whole neighborhoods flooded.
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Most recently, in July, a stretch south of Big Sur that had been impassable for more than a year was finally reopened, repaired after six million cubic yards of landslide buried it in its tumble toward the Pacific.
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The Town Council of Tusayan, just south of Grand Canyon National Park, declared a state of emergency early on Friday morning, citing the power outage and nearly two feet (60 cm) of snow that has made roads impassable.
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As it turns out — as it almost always turns out — I wasn't alone then, and I'm not alone now, in deriving some pleasure from reimagining the word "princess" and letting Ms. Markle bridge a once-impassable mental chasm.
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Social-media platforms relayed the surreal images of the city's eerily empty streets and shots of people with banners blocking Wuhan residents from entering their towns — in one case even digging up the road to make it impassable.
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After Maria, a harrowing report in The Washington Post described Utuado, where my father's side of the family is from, as "a prison" with residents trapped by mudslides, impassable roads and little to no food, drinking water or power.
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"The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it," he wrote, conceding that it would not be necessary on all 2,000 miles of the border, as parts are impassable.
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With communications out across most of Haiti and a key bridge impassable because of a swollen river, there was no immediate word on the full extent of potential casualties and damage from the storm in the poorest country in the Americas.
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During a video shown, a pixelated blue-clad Link was able to chop down a tree and use the trunk to cross a previously impassable river, as well as utilize fire from a camp to light a forest on fire.
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Washington (CNN)The White House projected confidence Thursday in its response to Puerto Rico, even as pictures of the devastation -- impassable roads and long lines for fuel, water and food -- continued to play out on TV screens across the country.
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During the Great Depression, when the whole state turned into a kind of Poverty Flat, the Civilian Conservation Corps sent a group of men to the region to carve a byway out of a virtually impassable landscape of cliffs and chasms.
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Pesquera, the head of Puerto Rico's Department of Public Safety, defended the government's efforts to generate an accurate count under extremely trying conditions, in which most lines of communication were cut and many roads on the island were initially impassable.
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"Power lines are strewn across our roads; utility poles snapped in half like matchsticks; boats lie sunken in the harbors; many thousands of our homes stand heavily damaged or destroyed and some of our major road systems are impassable," Gov.
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Matt Blubaugh, a spokesman with the Oklahoma National Guard's Joint Task Force, said in a statement that Braggs residents were previously not authorized to pass through the guard's Camp Gruber training facility because the connecting road in Cherokee County was impassable.
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He said the ship's roving mission was appropriate immediately after the storm when roads were impassable, but that as time passed it made more sense to allow seven hub hospitals to refer patients directly and ultimately for patients to refer themselves.
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President Trump has promised to build a wall to stop the flow of illegal immigrants in areas like this, but the geography — like shallow riverbanks and craggy trails that are impassable for vehicles — makes that nearly impossible and staggeringly expensive.
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Bridges in the area are impassable, especially those overpasses over the I-205 freeway that runs in a north-south trench through the eastern part of the city, and low-lying roadways are flooded by broken sewer and water mains.
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Unable to gain full control of the often impassable forests and swamps that shelter the jihadists, Nigeria's generals took a leaf from the counter-insurgency manual America used during the Vietnam war, when it fortified "strategic hamlets" to separate farmers from guerrillas.
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Whether this impasse is resolved with or without a new barrier along the border, the struggle has offered a searing reminder that the internal walls between what America has been and what it is becoming are only growing higher and more impassable.
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CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. food companies kept slaughter plants shut on Monday in southeastern states swamped by Hurricane Florence as catastrophic flooding killed nearly 2 million chickens, collapsed the walls of at least two hog manure pits, and made stretches of major roads impassable.
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Much of the island feels like it was hit by a storm yesterday The US government says it is committed to helping Puerto Rico but is confronted with challenging circumstances, including some roads that are narrow, muddied and impassable for large aid-delivery vehicles.
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The president has recently begun to temper his own statements about the wall, telling a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House last week that a 2,000-mile structure would not be needed because parts of the border would be impassable.
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Earlier this week, the streets of Westönnen, a small suburb of Werl in western Germany, went full Augustus Gloop when more than a metric ton of milk chocolate spilled out of a storage tank and immediately hardened into a delicious, impassable, 108-square-foot mess.
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Once part of the trade route that crisscrossed through the country, this passageway, called Trollstigen, or the troll's path, remains a spectacular example of the power of engineering in a remote region that is basically impassable from early November to May, when the snow falls.
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Water is not expected to recede for days If the river hits 38 feet a large number of homes will be flooded by 6 feet of water, roads will become impassable and residents won't be allowed to return home for days, emergency management officials said.
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Government forces backed by allies including Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Russian air force advanced last week to within a few hundred meters (yards) of the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo, making it impassable for the several hundred thousand people living there.
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On a handful of occasions during his presidential run, Trump has alluded to the idea that he'd only need to build a wall across half of the border — because the other half would be impassable terrain, both for construction equipment and for would-be immigrants.
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Last week, the House approved a $1.6 billion spending bill that funds the construction of a "contiguous and impassable wall" along the Mexican border, and just yesterday the Department of Homeland security issued an environmental waiver to expedite border construction projects in the San Diego area.
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It took her three days by boat upriver from Iquitos, then a day of hiking into land owned by an indigenous community, and another two days slogging deeper into the forest, trying to find a way around—and then across—a dense, almost impassable palm swamp.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency, the 11th state to do so in order to get a handle on highways made impassable by the drifting snow and to shore up coastal areas where the blizzard conditions raised the danger of flooding.
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Scientists, sports professionals, and intersex advocates have described the ruling for what it is: a move that attempts to control the bodily autonomy of intersex athletes and discriminates against women whose bodies do not conform to the kind of impassable "binary divide" that the IAAF has imagined.
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With the main road from capital Port-Au-Prince impassable after a swollen river destroyed a bridge and helicopters not taking off because of cloud cover and rain, outside aid has not begun to reach Les Cayes and other coast towns that took the brunt of Matthew.
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A sudden flurry of work to widen the near-impassable track in the Carpathian Mountains in the country's southwest has added new fuel to growing alarm in Ukraine that Ihor Kolomoisky, a disgraced billionaire now seeking rehabilitation, is making a comeback and widening his already substantial influence.
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Roads were closed in the region Friday through Saturday, including Interstate 29, Highway 2 and Interstate 94, per the Grand Forks Herald, with secondary state highways in the Devils Lake area "deemed impassable and blocked because of heavy snow and whiteout conditions," the news outlet reports.
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Even though Matthew made its first US landfall Saturday morning in South Carolina, part of the storm's eyewall -- the hurricane's strongest section -- passed over parts of coastal Florida, Georgia and South Carolina from Friday into Saturday, helping to flood low-lying areas, down trees and make some roads impassable.
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The quietness and longing of the works on view serve as a reminder that when we are displaced or remove ourselves from our homelands, it's not just action that we miss — we risk setting our memories, emotions, and senses of self at what can feel like an impassable distance.
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At the National Research Council's Ocean, Coastal, and River Engineering facility in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, scientists are busy tackling the technological problems of navigating the Northwest Passage, which runs through the Arctic Ocean and was considered impassable for centuries as it was locked up in ice.
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But truth be told, for all its history and kitsch, Hollywood Boulevard is also a place of street performers dressed up as Spider-Man hustling passing tourists, impassable sidewalks, street vendors and the occasional crime that draws of out-of-town attention, to the consternation of civic boosters.
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CreditCreditVictor J. Blue for The New York Times ALONG THE CAROLINAS COAST — Two weeks after a storm named Florence barreled into dozens of coastal communities — flooding homes, demolishing buildings, uprooting trees and carving up roads — its wrath and havoc continue, with entire neighborhoods still submerged and streets entirely impassable.
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When it's safe, text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: 347-322-0415 Lumberton, North Carolina (CNN)Florence's merciless deluge has already killed 183, trapped hundreds and made parts of North and South Carolina impassable -- and authorities say the worst flooding is yet to come.
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In an ideal world, I would have interviewed the Michigan women in their homes, but a blizzard struck Macomb County the day before I arrived, some roads were impassable, and I was grateful that many of the women kindly came to meet me at a centrally located shopping mall.
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A slew of statistics confirm that for the first time since Maria killed almost 3,000 Puerto Ricans, cut off the entire island's electricity and cell-phone communication, damaged more than half a million houses and nearly all hospitals, made roads impassable and blocked ports—there is actually some good news.
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For the better part of the past two years, caddie and player were separated by roughly 1,300 miles — LaCava in Connecticut, Woods in Florida — and a seemingly impassable expanse of uncharted territory as Woods entered his 40s and attempted to come back from several operations, including a back fusion last April.
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Although we know the distance between them is short, an inch or two at most, it feels impassable; each rose is held in place by the leaves and stems Mazur draws around them, as well as by the short abstract marks, hints of things, he makes between the two flowers.
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In "Like 'House Arrest': Flooded Roads and Swamped Bridges Strand Nebraskans," Mitch Smith writes: Record floodwaters have ravaged Nebraska, but as they begin to recede, an alarming reality has come into view: Hundreds of miles of highway remain impassable, bridges have been wiped out and routine drives have become treacherous ordeals.
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Officials are trying to clear an evacuation route On Wednesday the National Park Service and the Hawaii Department of Transportation announced they were working to cut through a large section of solidified lava flow from 2016 and 2017, in an effort to open a potential evacuation route in case Highway 130 becomes impassable.
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Hue escalates in difficultly gently, but always makes the player feel clever for solving its problems, at any level of challenge—be that simply spinning the color wheel to remove a crate from your path, or carefully timing jumps with switches between shades to ascend the ledges of an otherwise impassable vertical shaft.
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The details: The company reconnected electricity in the final neighborhood of Ponce, which was made difficult due to landslides and impassable terrain, reports the AP. However, PREPA spokesman Gerardo Quinones said some citizens may still be without power due to certain repairs needed, and people on the island of Vieques are still using generators.
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If you're lucky enough to snag one of the rare permits (there's also a lottery), you have to travel to the border of Utah and Arizona, then drive House Rock Valley Road to the trail head, the last few miles of which are practically a dirt road, which can become impassable depending on the weather.
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The report's tally of devastation: Deaths in the multiple thousands, 23,22.5 or more injuries requiring emergency care, about $210.2 billion in economic losses, impassable roads and highways, shattered water lines that might take up to six months to repair and at least 1,600 fire outbreaks, of which 1,200 will be too large to contain by a single fire engine company.
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A dirt path leading into the woods was still marked "Elizabeth Arden Road" on a few old maps, but it was virtually impassable except by mountain bike or A.T.V. On a sunny Saturday in October, the new Travis Mills Foundation center for wounded veterans held an open house, and the elegant old grounds were full of vets and their families.
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The lake's water levels, too, needed to be below 220,220 feet for us to see it, and those levels were partly dependent on snowfall (this winter there was lots) and how much of that snow, by the time we arrived, had melted and sluiced down the mountains — water that also, en route to the lake, could turn the 19733 miles of unpaved roads into impassable mush.
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