1.   Claims could rise further in coming weeks as several states in the Midwest and Southeast recover from late winter floods.

2.   Raised walkways are set up in heavily traveled areas during winter floods.

3.   The big-picture economists said the storm did not compare to the huge earthquakes or winter floods that crippled commerce in the region.

4.   The process will mimic the annual winter floods here, which leave several inches of standing rainwater on the surface.

5.   These, combined with winter floods, impaired the industry.

6.   What if there were a winter flood to damage the site?

7.   Their numbers have apparently increased in the last two years with exceptional winter floods of the Rhine.