1.   A stranded family lives out of the back of a pickup.

2.   The stranded families rushed to the airport in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday to make flight arrangements.

3.   Three helicopters also were expected to continue delivering emergency supplies to stranded ranching families in the Navajo backcountry, Bienz said.

4.   Boats motored through streets where water covered houses up to the roofs, picking up stranded families and taking them to shelters improvised in schools and fire departments.

5.   Fishermen in boats helped stranded families to shelters in schools and public buildings.

6.   Helicopters from the air force and the government oil company Petrobras picked up stranded families and flew them to high ground.

7.   State police used helicopters to ferry stranded families and to bring in supplies.

8.   Marines had been despatched to areas in the southwest to help rescue stranded families, he said.

9.   Salloum officials decided on Friday to increase the humanitarian aid given to the stranded families, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported.