101.  Despite the rising waters, many villagers remained unwilling to leave their homes.

102.  Downpours on Saturday and Monday damaged thousands of homes, wiped out dozens of bridges and roads and forced hundreds to flee the rising waters.

103.  During the operation, the complex was struck by a natural gas explosion and fire, and the rising water prevented the firefighters from battling the flames.

104.  Dozens of villages remained isolated in southwestern Romania as small bridges were taken down by rising waters.

105.  Emergency shelters were set up as people in Gilby and other small towns along the Turtle River fought the rising water.

106.  Farmers have rushed to reap summer rice crops ahead of the rising waters and save recently transplanted shoots for the fall harvest.

107.  Flooding victims without shelter also were vulnerable to being bitten by snakes that have been pushed by the rising waters into inhabited regions.

108.  He had to swim away from it when the rapidly rising water made his empty tanker trailer float.

109.  He said he believes this is the first time a volcano crater has been bled of rising water.

110.  He said he believes this is the first time a volcano crater has had to be bled of rising water.