| 1. | Outside of town, crowds gathered on top of several dikes.
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| 2. | Engineers say this dike will provide safety for another 100 years.
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| 3. | "God bless our dikes, " she says.
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| 4. | Muddy water carries soil, indicating erosion of the dike itself.
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| 5. | There are a lot of holes to plug in this dike.
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| 6. | They have proposed building a temporary dike around the crash site.
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| 7. | It's just a finger in the dike ."
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| 8. | When they heard that, people on the dikes just sagged.
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| 9. | Their protection consisted of makeshift dikes they constructed and maintained themselves.
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| 10. | The dikes are weakened since the flood has lasted so long.
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