1.   Forecasting has been made more difficult because the rampaging water has washed away water-level gauges in several places, the National Weather Service said.

2.   Forecasting has been made more difficult because the rampaging water has washed away water-level gauges in several places, officials with the National Weather Service said.

3.   The parks, flooded by the rampaging waters, for three weeks after the hurricane, were closed, their public sports events all canceled.

4.   Were the floods primarily rampaging water carrying some soil and rocks, like an overflowing Mississippi River?