1.   The federal agency provides assistance to families whose homes were destroyed by flooding.

2.   One reason is that in previous years, flooding destroyed a vast amount of expensive farm equipment and buildings.

3.   Wheat futures rose sharply late Thursday on speculation that flooding had destroyed some of the winter wheat crop in Illinois.

4.   Many also complained flooding could destroy rice crops just before the October-November harvest.

5.   Several bridges and local roads in central Serbia were destroyed by flooding.

6.   Some harvests were expected from the highlands, but flooding destroyed all crops in lower areas, the team said.

7.   The town cemetery had been destroyed by flooding.

8.   Many caviar treatment installations in the two northern provinces have been overrun and destroyed by flooding in the past five years.