1.   A dozen or so miles away in Healdsburg, several downtown blocks were flooded, and business owners were reinforcing sandbag levees outside their shops.

2.   A sandbag levee is keeping the river out of the downtown area.

3.   Camanche residents weary from working through a rainy night to shore up leaking sandbag levees labored to build yet another wall to contain water seeping through a railroad bed.

4.   City workers kept watch on sandbag levees as the bloated Mississippi River hovered around its crest Wednesday, not quite as high as predicted and short of a record.

5.   City workers kept watch on sandbag levees as the bloated Mississippi River hovered at its crest Wednesday, not quite as high as predicted and short of a record.

6.   Communities along other rivers in Minnesota and North Dakota waited to see if sandbag levees would hold.

7.   Communities in Minnesota and North Dakota waited and watched to see if sandbag levees would hold.

8.   Elsewhere, communities along other rivers in Minnesota and North Dakota waited to see if sandbag levees would hold.

9.   Flooding on the swollen Mississippi River pushed downstream Thursday, inundating basements and streets as workers and residents rushed to shore up dikes and build sandbag levees.

10.   Flooding on the swollen Mississippi River pushed downstream Thursday, inundating basements and streets as workers and residents in rushed to shore up dikes and build sandbag levees.