1.   At Challow in Oxfordshire, deep floodwater meant it was strictly snails pace only for motorist.

2.   He doubted that the flood could have reached above the mountains, because he reasoned that there would have been nowhere for such deep floodwaters to recede to.

3.   Cobras and vipers slithered across deep floodwaters Tuesday as raging rivers smothered new areas across the stark countryside of northern India.

4.   In deep floodwaters, poisonous cobras, vipers and kraits have come out of their pits and cases of snakebites have shot up, doctors said.