1.   The driving rain saw streams turned into muddy torrents, blocking roads and forcing some motorists to abandon their cars.

2.   A muddy torrent is another matter.

3.   The engineers say the new features would store hundreds of billions of gallons of water that canals now flush in muddy torrents out to sea.

4.   People, some in yellow slickers or carrying battered umbrellas, helped each other across waist-deep muddy torrents.

5.   By the time the muddy torrent reached their shoulders, rescue workers were arriving on the river bank with ropes.

6.   Many of them were caught in muddy torrents that swept hundreds of cars, huge tree trunks and tons of mud down the mountains behind Acapulco toward the sea.

7.   Rescue workers arrived at the bank with ropes but not in time to prevent the group from being overpowered by the muddy torrent.

8.   The muddy torrents turned streets into violent rivers, sweeping away roads and bridges and tearing down walls from concrete houses.