1.   The sewers are so filled with silt and the underground plumbing is so old that heavy rains cause rivers on campus.

2.   But heavy rains caused several rivers near the pueblos of Arecibo, Barcelonetta, and Vega Alta to overflow.

3.   To which he could have added, that sometimes human dreams cause the river to change its course, sometimes abruptly.

4.   Floods swept the villages following four days of heavy rains, causing rivers in the area to rise.

5.   Heavy rains pounding much of Bolivia have destroyed the homes and crops of tens of thousands of farmers, drowned livestock and caused rivers to flood key roads.

6.   On Tuesday, four children drowned after an unusual dry-season rain caused the river, choked with volcanic debris, to overflow.

7.   The floods followed an hourlong cloudburst that caused a river to overflow, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said, monitored in Dubai.

8.   Then heavy rains and melting snow upstream in the Appalachian foothills caused the river to rise.

9.   Weeks of almost continuous rainfall has caused rivers to surge over their banks, mostly in southern and central areas of the former Portuguese colony.

10.   Blocks of ice in the Danube caused the river to flood at Kelheim in Bavaria, southern Germany.