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Deluges from swollen rivers are heading for lower-lying areas, officials say, bringing more misery to millions.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2022

Deluges have completely destroyed or damaged nearly 37,000 homes in the flood-hit areas since June 14, according to a report released by the National Disaster and Management Authority.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Deluges and downpours sent water surging through the streets, and low-lying areas flooded.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

Deluges covered huge portions of the lower Willamette Valley where Oregon City is located.

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2013

Deluges of rain, lashes of spray, driven on board by the tremendous violence of the wind, enveloped us in a strange, half-mysterious obscurity.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von