21.   Windswept rain will lash the northwest coast as a powerful storm moves ashore.

22.   Windswept rain will lash the Northwest coast as a strong front arrives.

23.   Windswept rain will lash the Oregon to central California coast early Monday as a potent Pacific front arrives.

24.   Rains lashed north-central Italy Sunday, swelling rivers and streams that swept a young Italian woman to her death and carried away two other vacationers.

25.   Rains lashed north-central Italy Sunday, swelling rivers and streams that swept away three vacationers.

26.   All drivers forfeited the early part of the one-hour qualifying session, and just watched water dry on the track which was lashed by rain early on.

27.   And then, although the rain still lashed down, the water stopped.

28.   As heavy rains lashed the mainland, soldiers in amphibious landing craft rescued villagers from flooded homes.

29.   But torrential rains have been lashing western and southwestern Japan since last Sunday, causing flooding and a series of landslides.

30.   But those numbers are two weeks old, before rains lashed the northeast.