1.   Widespread flooding, mudslides and high winds flattened thousands of homes and destroyed crops on several islands.

2.   A cyclone battered a broad swath of eastern India for a second day Saturday, knocking out power and telephone lines and flattening thousands of homes.

3.   After the apartheid government removed the people, bulldozers flattened thousands of homes and buildings, sparing only a few churches and mosques.

4.   The rains have flattened thousands of homes and other buildings, submerged rail tracks and highways, destroyed crops and damaged communication systems and killed cattle.

5.   Torrential rains have flattened thousands of homes and other buildings, submerged rail tracks and highways, destroyed crops and damaged communication systems and washed away cattle.