11.   The flooding came during a string of blustery winter rain storms that have pounded Northern California with heavy rain and gale-force winds, saturating the soil.

12.   The invisible enemy is the toxic metal lead, saturating the soil in West Town, a low-income, largely Hispanic neighborhood a few miles west of downtown Chicago.

13.   Experts warned that soil had been saturated, allowing more water to flow directly into the lake.

14.   Several years of heavy rainfall have saturated the soil and left the level of the water table in the Seine basin very high.