1.   He spent six weeks coordinating Red Cross communications in the flooded Sacramento Delta towns of Yuba City, Modesto, Stockton and others.

2.   Last Monday, Jospin tried to visit a flooded town in northern France.

3.   In northern Germany, residents in the flooded town center of Bad Gandersheim fled their homes in rubber dinghies.

4.   Russian authorities evacuated hundreds of people from flooded towns in Siberia and used explosives to blast river ice jams that have made water levels rise, officials said Wednesday.

5.   State television shows dramatic footage almost nightly of heroic efforts to shore up a dike or evacuate a flooded town.

6.   The once-fierce hurricane, reduced to a mild tropical storm, continued to dump water on already flooded towns and farmland.

7.   The three other flooded towns are Caycuma, Devrek and Yenice.

8.   Then a hurricane, Roxanne toppled trees, forced tens of thousands into shelters, flooded towns and destroyed crops.

9.   Two people have drowned in separate incidents after heavy rains flooded suburban towns outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, state and local authorities said Thursday.

10.   Residents of the flooded town Sainte-Agathe sharply criticized provincial authorities for not incorporating them in the territory spared by the nearby emergency dike.