Two million Floridians were urged to evacuate.
They were urged to evacuate or to remain indoors.
But residents were still being urged to evacuate.
A total of 250,000 people were urged to evacuate.
Two million people had been urged to evacuate, many of them for the second time this month.
12.18pm GMT More residents are being urged to evacuate their homes.
Last night, residents of Northmoor, Fordgate and Saltmoor, also on the Levels, had already been urged to evacuate.
When a volcano looks like it might blow people are urged to evacuate, often saving thousands of lives.
Tens of thousands of local residents were forced from homes, and tens of thousands more were urged to evacuate more distant areas.
Residents of 20 houses were urged to evacuate today, bringing the total to close to 250 houses, said Stan Hinatsu, a spokesman at the fire command center.
Hundreds of residents are being urged to evacuate certain areas in and around Memphis, where tributaries have swelled into parts of the city as well as suburbs and mobile home parks and inundated a small airport.
