1.   Flooding isolated dozens of neighborhoods.

2.   Government helicopters ferried aid to scores of villages isolated by flooding.

3.   Telephone lines were down throughout the country, and hundreds of people were isolated by flooding.

4.   The military has also agreed to fly staff and materials by helicopter into areas isolated by flooding, the IEC said.

5.   The Monterey Peninsula, south of San Francisco, was reopened early Monday after being isolated by flooding Sunday.