Army trucks and lorries plough through the thigh-deep waters, spraying plumes of water from their wheels and leaving waves in their wake.
They left waves of assassinations and disappearances, lootings and carjackings in their wake.
They left, waving at him with his severed hand, which he has been searching for ever since.
"I'm standing here with you," he declared to loud cheers, speaking for about 15 minutes before he left, waving through the window of his helicopter.
The crowd shouted "Putin, leave!", waved flags and blew whistles – a nod to his public booing and whistling at a martial arts event last month.
If the storm does a lot of damage, the G.O.P. faces the nightmarish prospect of President Obama flying into the Gulf region to oversee the recovery effort, while Romney and the G.O.P. attendees are left waving flags in Tampa.
The Taoyuan Federation of Trade Unions says that 16 years ago, when the government opened the island to free trade, it left "waves of Taiwan's workers laid off without redundancy and pension… This will happen again with the trade agreement today".
As I leave, waved off with blessings, it is as though I had journeyed through that Berber tale, to a place where people were honest and kind.
Are they majority left waves or right waves?
Leaving the wave created controversy, leading the competitive surfing establishment to suppress aerials for decades.
