1.   At the Berezina River, the Russians nearly trapped the retreating French by burning the bridges over the swollen river.

2.   Inside it raged like a swollen river.

3.   And even when the rain stopped for a period Sunday, the water kept pouring into swollen rivers and flooded roadways from overtaxed drainage pipes.

4.   At least two other men were rescued from the swollen river, but divers continued to search for missing people Tuesday.

5.   Barge traffic on this seam of the Mississippi has been still for days now because of the swollen river.

6.   Earlier travelers worried about dangerous weather, disease, swollen rivers and poisonous snakes.

7.   Elsewhere, hundreds of people were still beyond the reach of rescue workers, cut off by smashed bridges and swollen rivers.

8.   Goss said the impact on the swollen river is no greater than that of treated wastewater on the river during normal conditions.

9.   In Virginia, swollen rivers were expected to crest at or near record levels Saturday, said Mary Kornwolf, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Emergency Services.