11.   The heavy rains also threatened the make-shift homes of thousands who have sought refuge in the capital from rising floodwaters in surrounding villages.

12.   The rising floodwaters have inundated two-thirds of Bangladesh, displacing millions of people, damaging standing crops and washing away roads and bridges.

13.   The storm drenched the hillsides, turning them into a deadly mush that cascaded down on helpless residents seeking higher ground from the rising floodwaters.

14.   As parts of the US east coast braced for rising floodwaters in the wake of Hurricane Fran, Caribbean islands prepared for Tropical Storm Hortense.

15.   Volunteers and troops erected walls of sandbags across Minnesota Sunday as rising floodwaters from the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers closed roads and forced thousands of residents to evacuate.

16.   The city and surrounding provinces were left with rising floodwaters as electricity and tap water were cut off.