1.   The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts.

2.   Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia, as the country began recovering from devastating floods.

3.   Angry mountains and devastating floods have long been central to the folklore of the Nisqually Indians of Puget Sound and the Mount Rainier area.

4.   Inefficient agriculture and devastating floods have created severe food shortages.

5.   It is pegged to devastating floods, drought and huge shifts in the distribution of fish, oceanic birds and marine mammals.

6.   Ross, spokesman for the United Nations World Food Program, said the flow of international food aid to Korea that followed devastating floods last August has stopped.

7.   She sings about a worldwide plague from which there is no sanctuary, and about a devastating flood.

8.   So the Chronicle recently sent her back to her home town to report on the devastating flood damage there.

9.   The disasters they create, and for which they miraculously escape blame, include the worst car pile-up in the history of superhighway mishaps and a devastating flood.

10.   The most devastating floods in this century have all taken place in China.