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"This time people weren't fleeing Israeli attacks," one resident said.

Bucksnort is a close-knit town where the cell service is spotty and a gas station - adorned with a Confederate flag centrepiece - is the local watering hole, residents say.

Catalonia's civil protection service sent a telephone alert urging residents in the Montsia region to avoid travelling and approaching waterways.

She said it would benefit large energy companies at the expense of residents, even as the city got little in return for hosting the facilities.

City officials estimated the project would shave as much as 30 minutes from South Side residents’ travel times and create 12,500 construction jobs in neighborhoods where 24% of residents live below the poverty line.