31.   Throughout the south, dry water courses became raging torrents, sweeping cars off the roads.

32.   Throughout the south, wadis - dry water courses - became raging torrents, sweeping cars off the roads.

33.   Torrential downpours turned creeks and streams into raging torrents in central Virginia, killing one man and sweeping away a three-year-old girl, authorities said.

34.   The downpours caused streams and creeks to swell into raging torrents sweeping away all before them and forcing hundreds to flee their homes.

35.   The only sound was the roar of the Gallego river, now a raging torrent, and the noise of the compressors running the floodlights.