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There are also concerns that rain-swollen rivers could still flood their banks, causing more damage.

Forecasters Warn Emily Still a Threat 2011

A bit over an hour into the five-hour drive across the ferrous red plateau, heading south toward Uganda’s capital Kampala, suddenly, there’s the Nile, a boiling, roiling cataract at this time of year, rain-swollen and ropy and rabid below the bridge that vaults over it.

Lawrence Weschler: The Art of the Shakedown, From the Nile to the Potomac Lawrence Weschler 2011

Over the past week or so in the Delta, floodwaters along the rain-swollen river and its backed-up tributaries have already washed away crops, forced many to seek higher ground and closed some of the dockside casinos that are vital to the state's economy.

Flooded river takes aim at Mississippi Delta 2011

There are also concerns that rain-swollen rivers could still flood their banks, causing more damage.

Forecasters Warn Emily Still a Threat 2011

John Howard Anderson Jr, 57, had been in a car with two other people trying to cross a rain-swollen creek.

Hurricane Irene relief fund estimated at $1.5bn 2011

Water from the rain-swollen Black River breached a levee south of Poplar Bluff, Missouri as about a foot of rain since Friday has forced more than 1,000 people to evacuate their homes, in a replay of a 2008 disaster.

Storms Take a Deadly Toll Ilan Brat 2011

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Crews on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two workers from the rubble of a wastewater-treatment plant wall that collapsed earlier in the day, while officials continued to investigate what caused the breach that released sewage into a rain-swollen river at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Tennessee Sewage Plant Spill: 2 Bodies Found After Gatlinburg Wastewater-Treatment Plant Incident The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Six school students and teacher swept to their deaths in rain-swollen river in New Zealand

In praise of… Arts & Letters Daily | Editorial 2011

On Monday, water from the rain-swollen Black River was already pouring over the top of the levee, threatening about 500 homes in the town of 17,000 people about 150 miles southwest of St. Louis.

Thousands Evacuate as Missouri Town's Levee Threatens to Burst Joe Barrett 2011

Police say a fifth person died in a separate accident after his truck plunged into a rain-swollen river.

Storm Batters Eastern US 2010