1.   Griselda Flores and her husband, Jose Pinto, managed to escape the floods just before their three-room house was buried in mud and water.

2.   Like a quarter million of his countrymen, Gerard Schootz was evacuated from his home earlier this week to escape the floods.

3.   The center of Emerson escaped the flood because it is completely ringed by dikes.

4.   Two soybean farmers complained that they had ruined a combine harvester they tried to drive through flooded roads to escape a flood that never came.

5.   In Xai Xai, people who climbed trees to escape the floods have tried to return to normal life.

6.   Several rhinos were gunned down by poachers during the floods when the animals strayed outside the park to escape the floods, officials say.

7.   Tens of thousands of Italians found borrowed shelter on high ground, escaping floods that brought the Po River to historic highs.

8.   Tens of thousands of Italians found borrowed shelter on high ground, escaping the floods that brought the Po River to historic highs.

9.   Three of them were gunned down by poachers this week when the animals strayed outside the park to escape the floods, it said.

10.   Three other miners were still missing, and four miners escaped the flood, the newspaper said.