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						<h6><div class="published"><span>Published: </span>Thursday, September 21st, 2017 at 8:42am</div><div class="updated"><span>Updated: </span>Thursday, September 21st, 2017 at 11:34am</div></h6>
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					<div class="caption">FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, file photo, water from Addicks Reservoir flows into neighborhoods as floodwaters from Harvey rise in Houston. Allstate expects $593 million in insurance losses for August due to Hurricane Harvey. That marks a spike from $181 million in July. The estimates do not include Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in September. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)</div>
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