71.   As history repeated itself, the weather miraculously improved after torrential downpours in recent days.

72.   But the already smaller than expected crowd suddenly became smaller as a torrential downpour began right at the scheduled start of their demonstration.

73.   Earlier, many bursts of firing could be heard in different parts of the town, in spite of a torrential downpour late in the day.

74.   The usually sedate Khwae Noi River in Kanchanburi, swollen by torrential downpours, destroyed two bridges, the official told AFP.

75.   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.

76.   Officials in southern Fujian province said torrential downpours and hurricane-strength winds were hampering rescue work and damage assessments in the area.

77.   Officials in the Andhra Pradesh state capital Hyderabad said thousands of people were marooned and road and rail links disrupted throughout the province following a torrential downpour.

78.   People also shoot off weapons during heavy torrential downpours and on the occasion of lunar eclipses.

79.   Some feared that the torrential downpours might have damaged cocoa bushes, but others welcomed the precipitation after recent drought there.

80.   The floods, triggered by torrential downpours at the end of June, have affected nine provinces.