11.   As the filthy brown water receded from most living rooms around town, Staley helped his sister clean her house a few doors down.

12.   Before he steps from the airboat, Walt Rhodes leans over and pokes around in the muddy brown water with a boat oar.

13.   A canoe trip is the best way to experience the quiet beauty of the placid brown waters, tinted by tannin and decaying pine needles.

14.   But heavy rains and raging brown water hampered search efforts.

15.   By Saturday night, the rushing brown water was eating away at the roads around the town of Greenfield.

16.   By the time the elderly couple realized their only way out was the front door, foaming brown water was up to their necks.

17.   Currents of brown water flowed through front and back yards and submerged the narrow streets.

18.   It is surrounded by lakes of stagnant brown water, but there is not a drop for toilets, showers or washing clothes.

19.   It remains in ruins, its jagged and gutted buildings standing like broken teeth along the swirling brown waters of the Danube.

20.   Jefferson City drivers maneuvered in long lines around major low-lying intersections now blocked by sandbags and brown water.