31.   You can make the patio level, because water will drain through the joints and into the earth.

32.   But demand for volunteers to help sandbag has dwindled significantly as homeowners settle in behind dikes to wait for the water to drain.

33.   More development has made it harder for water to drain.

34.   Standing water has not drained from some puddles despite two days of bright sunshine.

35.   The new studies suggest that the water drained downward until it was trapped as ice just below the protective layer of soil.