31.   Only scattered showers were likely Tuesday in the area where rivers had been swollen by heavy rain during the weekend and melting snow.

32.   Several dikes were facing increasing pressure and any additional rains threatened to swell the rivers in the Meuse valley even further.

33.   Storms washed out bridges, flooded highways and swelled rivers, causing them to jump their banks.

34.   Summer rains regularly swell Chinese rivers, flooding large areas and causing scores of deaths.

35.   The corps reduces the flow during the spring months when melting snow swells the river, and increases it in summer to keep barge traffic moving.

36.   The downpour has swollen all rivers in Haryana and in the neighboring states of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

37.   The flooding was sparked by a week of steady rain that swelled rivers along the Pacific coast of southern Chiapas state.

38.   The flooding occurred when four days of torrential rains swelled the Manu and Dholai rivers.

39.   The river was swollen by heavy monsoon rains.

40.   The rain follows a couple of weeks of wet weather upstream in South Dakota and Nebraska that had already swollen the river.