1.   All around them brass bands played, bagpipes wailed, majorettes strutted and a storm of paper snowed down on the players, coating the streets in manufactured white.

2.   The gushing water coated the street, melted the banks of snow hugging the road and poured into the Hackensack River, which runs alongside the road .

3.   Dried mud coats the streets, the remnants of a mudslide that swept over the impoverished village and left a moonscape behind.

4.   Ice coated streets in western France, some passes in the Pyrenees Mountains were closed, and warnings were issued to skiers to be wary of avalanches.

5.   Television reports showed rivers of muddy water rushing down mountainsides in the port city of Keelung, coating streets with a thick layer of yellowish mud.

6.   Television reports showed rivers of muddy water flowing down mountainsides in the port city of Keelung, coating streets with a thick layer of yellowish mud.

7.   The crowd was smaller than usual because of the frigid February weather, which soaked through winter jackets and coated streets with ice.