1.   As of Tuesday night there have been no calls for public donations, such as followed disastrous floods on the mainland last year.

2.   A disastrous flood provided the opportunity to set things right in Yosemite.

3.   A spring flood as disastrous as the one now inundating the Midwest strikes only once a century.

4.   North Korea has also been suffering from severe food shortages following two years of disastrous floods.

5.   Proponents say the dam is needed to protect against disastrous floods.

6.   And as disastrous floods this summer throughout much of the country demonstrated, much needs to be done for flood control.

7.   Higher water levels in bigger rivers should not be dangerous, but local authorities feared that dikes damaged during disastrous floods last summer could still break.

8.   Hunger is reportedly widespread in North Korea after years of mismanagement and two straight years of disastrous floods that ruined crops and farmland.

9.   International charity organizations have warned that after two years of disastrous floods, North Korea faces famine this summer without massive outside aid.

10.   North Korea suffered disastrous floods last year that destroyed vast stretches of farm land and forced the isolationist state to seek international aid.