Word: mudding
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...your house was flooded, look for sinking foundations, cracks in walls or baseboards, and other signs of collapse. You may have to scrape mud off the walls with a shovel, or wash down the walls with a hose to prevent rotting...
...bridges were reduced to twisted ruins as if shelled by flocks of F-111's. Empty hulks with blackened windows remained where entire blocks of the downtown area had been burned out. National Guardsmen in muddy Jeeps patrolled the streets and MP's directed traffic through intersections choked with mud. Most grotesquely, twisted and mangled mannequins lying outside shattered store windows grimly suggested the carnage of a beseiged city...
Every store and house bore the clear mark of the high water, a chocolate streak ranging from 6 to 12 feet up the side of the building. The ground floors of most homes and businesses were completely devastated. With nearly all store windows broken out, waterlogged and mud-crusted merchandise furniture and food lay rotting in the summer...
...deciduous, mud-red hair has been dried in a wind tunnel. His posture would be unsatisfactory for a question mark. His adenoidal diction suggests that he learned English from records -played at the wrong speed. He has the kind of profile that should not be painted but wallpapered...
...whole town") sped through the night to deliver a truckload of clothing. A chicken farmer donated his 16,000 birds to help feed the city. From up to 250 miles away, farmers with wells carried tanks of water to the town. Charles Russell, a volunteer fireman from Mud Butte, S. Dak., repeatedly drove a water-filled fire truck from Sturgis into Rapid City. "I've seen every kind of container ever made," he said of the various means that residents used to take the water home, "even little kids' potties...