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By Julio-Cesar Chavez, Marco Bello and Brendan O'Brien HORSESHOE BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Idalia drenched the Carolinas with heavy rain before departing the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Thursday, while officials in Florida, where the tempest made landfall as a major hurricane a day earlier, stepped up recovery and damage-appraisal efforts. Nearly 36 hours…

Dozens were seen picking through piles of rubble where their homes once stood, throwing tarps over ripped-apart roofs and trudging through flooded streets clogged up by fallen trees