During recent rainstorms in Hawaii, it was particularly hard to hear orders from there over the din.

During a recent violent rainstorm, about 300 soldiers from Japan's self-defense forces were hastily dispatched to Mount Fuji, where 100 or so heavily armed invaders had seized control of the scenic summit.

Rescue workers were delayed by the muddy condition of the roads in the area following recent rainstorms.

The fields were wet from a recent rainstorm.

More than half a million of the 1.8 million telephone lines in Buenos Aires are not working properly and nearly 140,000 of them were knocked out completely by a recent rainstorm.

Though New York's reservoirs are still low, recent rainstorms have moistened soil and made it workable again.

Silverhair could see that it had been badly eroded by recent rainstorms; deep gullies ran down its side, as if scored by giant tusks.

Rocks and dirt, loosened by recent heavy rainstorms, were tumbling down the steep hillside at terrific speed.

The train had cars full of gravel and was preparing to go to Santa Barbara to repair tracks damaged in the recent rainstorms.

Switzer complained about the soggy Candlestick Park grass even though it had been covered by a tarpaulin during recent rainstorms.