1.   The nightly news has featured endless images of this struggle with soaked soldiers in chest-high water hauling sandbags to reinforce the dikes.

2.   Their green fatigues, bright orange life jackets and brilliant red flags stand out against the white wall of sandbags reinforcing the dike.

3.   Another two people were killed and four injured in a landslide while workers were reinforcing dikes in Ha Tay province.

4.   Emergency workers and student volunteers raced to reinforce dikes around the city with sand, said Viktor Beltsov, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry.

5.   His group has spoken out against recent proposed plans to reinforce the dikes with concrete blocks.

6.   However, hundreds of people in Wisconsin and downstream in Iowa had moved out of low-lying riverside areas while volunteers and others worked to reinforce sandbag dikes.

7.   Hundreds of people in Wisconsin and downstream in Iowa had moved out of low-lying riverside areas Tuesday while volunteers and others worked to reinforce sandbag dikes.

8.   Hundreds of residents worked for a second day reinforcing dikes with sand bags.

9.   Hundreds of people in Wisconsin and in Iowa had moved out of low-lying riverside areas while volunteers and others worked to reinforce sandbag dikes.

10.   On Thursday, soldiers again helped reinforce dikes or breach others to divert water away from residential areas as rain fell again in many parts of the country.