31.   Heavy rains in March alleviated the drought conditions.

32.   Heavy rains on wildfire-stripped hillsides caused mudslides and flooding of homes in San Bernardino on Tuesday.

33.   If there is heavy rain during their exposed period, the pools are rendered brackish, rather than saline.

34.   If there is heavy rain, the spillways must be enlarged to allow the floodwater to escape before the dam bursts.

35.   In a few minutes the sky darkened and heavy rain began to fall.

36.   Just after midnight Wade woke to a heavy rain.

37.   Now it was raining hard outside, great heavy unmerciful rain slanting out of the sky like steel rods.

38.   Now, the focus is shifting to washes, the dry stream beds that carry water only after a heavy rain.

39.   Once there was a terrible storm with very heavy rain.