21.   Reports from Kabul, Kandahar, and Jalalabad said residents had fled, but it was unknown if they were headed for other villages or into other countries.

22.   Residents fled the building as ambulances rushed to the scene.

23.   Residents flee the area of the explosion.

24.   Research has not shown that hazardous waste is the pervasive threat it seemed when Love Canal residents first fled black ooze in their basements.

25.   Second, as residents fled many others came to the city from even harder-hit villages.

26.   Small wonder that most residents have fled for villages in the nearby hills, coming back only to watch excavation of their buildings.

27.   Stores, businesses and homes are empty as vacationers and residents flee to safer ground.

28.   The Atlantic Ocean came crashing over breakwalls in this suburb south of Boston on Tuesday, leaving roads flooded, porches collapsed and some residents fleeing inland.

29.   The closest it came was two years ago when half the residents fled during the approach of the relatively weak Hurricane Georges.

30.   The goal is faster, better information so flood-plain residents can flee a deluge or prepare their homes for minor flooding.