81.   Make sure the furnace and other cellar appliances are raised high enough to keep out of flood waters.

82.   Oil and gas company executives waded through flood waters last month in New Orleans to attend a federal auction of offshore leases.

83.   One grandfather wept that his crippled wife had been swallowed by flood waters.

84.   One man said he saved his four children and wife by tying them to a tree when flood waters in the valley swept everything away.

85.   Officials said they were confident it would hold off the flood waters but were prepared to evacuate remaining residents if it did not.

86.   Ordinary flood water is usually not a health hazard, as sewage is, but disinfecting might be a good idea.

87.   Others say the expression was born in England, where stray cats and dogs drowned in flood waters caused by heavy rains.

88.   Seven feet of flood water did immense damage to their ranch house in San Antonio four years ago.

89.   Safety workers had to deal with snakes fleeing to dry ground and drivers determined to ford passages left obviously risky with coursing flood water.

90.   Several smaller earthen dams were also reported topped by flood waters.