1.   In Louisiana, scores of travelers were stranded for hours on flooded freeways, while alligators stirred up by thunder and heavy rain have been wandering into residential areas.

2.   Motorists in Southern California endured a third day of flooded freeways and fender-benders that led to morning gridlock in some areas.

3.   Thousands of people have been forced from their homes or stranded along flooded freeways in the Houston area.

4.   Thousands of people were forced from their homes or stranded on flooded freeways because of torrential rains.

5.   Thousands of people had been forced from their homes or stranded along flooded freeways in the Houston area of southeastern Texas.

6.   Thousands of people were forced from their homes or stranded on flooded freeways Saturday as torrential rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison swamped Houston and Southeast Texas.