21.   Kitzhaber was hospitalized on Thursday night with chest pains in Salem, the state capital, after he spent the day touring flooded areas and conferring with emergency officials.

22.   Law enforcement officers have set up several checkpoints around flooded areas and are patrolling others, Manning said.

23.   Mike Edwards, with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency in Atlanta, said floating coffins have also been reported from other flooded areas.

24.   Much of it will be salvaged from the flooded areas and will be wearing mildew, mud, and a little brown around the edges.

25.   Never attempt to drive through a flooded area.

26.   Officials recommend residents in flooded areas boil drinking water three to five minutes before use.

27.   Officials are locating people reported missing as fast as they can, but evacuation of flooded areas remained the focus of emergency operations Monday, Gaskins said.

28.   On high-water days, portable wooden walkways are laid down by public works crews to provide dry passage through flooded areas.

29.   On Tuesday, most people in flooded areas were more concerned about what had already happened.

30.   On Wednesday they played host to Gov. Lawton Chiles, who flew over the flooded area, and they began the process of tallying the damages.