On Saturday, high water forced 3,500 people here from their homes.

Soon, though, the water was seeping through the doors and forcing the family onto the roof.

The water pushing down would just force the plate with it.

Now the water forced her up to a higher rung of the ladder.

As he reached the middle of the trough, the water was forcing itself over his shoulders.

The subsequent water damaged forced the station off the air for two months until it relocated across the street.

Those left behind would take to the boats as the rising water forced their withdrawal.

Then the water forced itself up my nose and into my mouth.

Again the pain burned her face, then pressure as if the waters would force themselves into her lungs.

There, the rising water would force air through a whistle, sounding an alarm.