11.   Earlier in the day, Gore will tour flooded areas of the Sacramento River in California.

12.   Fewer than a dozen helicopters are operating throughout the vast flooded area.

13.   Gov. Ann Richards toured flooded areas in an Army helicopter on Tuesday and then held a news conference at the Houston airport.

14.   He added that the company had just awarded another contract to fill a flooded area of the village with sand.

15.   Gov. Christie Whitman and other officials flew over the flooded areas Sunday to assess the damage and pledged aid.

16.   Harvesting strawberries in flooded areas should be back to full speed within a week, said Dave Kranz, a spokesman for the California Farm Bureau.

17.   He photographed open drums of chemicals, leaky tanks, flooded areas.

18.   He made the remarks Sunday as he toured flooded areas near the southern town of Abancay.

19.   In Boston, the most seriously flooded areas were Kenmore Square, the Archdale housing development in Roslindale and streets around the normally insignificant Muddy River.

20.   In the most severely flooded areas, refugees from the surging water returned to find homes and businesses partly submerged or caked in mud.