Within three hours, we were under five feet of water.

[Perhaps surprisingly, life there hasn't been bad.] We have plenty of food and water, ... We have a generator, so we can plug in our fans.

They had no place to get water, get gas, go to the bathroom.

The market could tread water until Friday.

The miners had to run out of the mine as the water pored in, and it reversed the flow in a canal and shrimp boats were breaking lose.

There's only so long you can hold the beach ball under water,