1.   Elsewhere, flood waters engulfed dozens of homes along the Rio Ozama, the river that runs through the capital.

2.   Next door, at the student center, water had engulfed a theater and had mixed bowling pins from a subterranean bowling alley with new shipments of textbooks.

3.   Soon the water had engulfed the first floors and the four cars in the courtyard were banging up against his house.

4.   Earlier the waters had engulfed a number of villages, destroying hundreds of houses.