11.   A second round of heavy rain struck last week, flooding homes in seven counties on Thursday.

12.   A winter storm battered Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Syria on Thursday, leaving travelers snowbound, shutting schools and flooding homes.

13.   At the height of the storm Saturday, rising water flooded homes and submerged vehicles in many low-lying areas of Bucks and Montgomery counties northeast of Philadelphia.

14.   At the old Lombard farm center of Cremona, the Po burst its banks, flooding vacant homes.

15.   Homes were flooded by rising tides and warnings were posted throughout the eastern Caribbean Saturday as Tropical Storm Iris slipped between the islands of Martinique and Dominica.

16.   Heavy rain and gusty winds battered northern Haiti, ripping ripped tin roofs from shanties and flooding some homes in northwest Port-de-Paix, police reported.

17.   Heavy rain last Thursday flooded homes and caused a dam near Lynchburg to collapse.

18.   Most of the victims died when their homes were flooded or collapsed, Ali Mahdi said.

19.   Rains have caused extensive damage in the usually dry western region, uprooting electrical cables and flooding homes.

20.   Snow and rain storms swept Greece Monday, flooding homes, ripping up trees and seriously disrupting transport and services.