About 1,000 people were left homeless as the waters smashed through Teresópolis.
Around 1,000 people were left homeless as the waters smashed through the town, destroying homes, powerlines and roads.
It prevents the film from being just another blockbuster action flick - albeit a breathtakingly epic one where streets literally fold in on themselves, a freight train runs through the middle of a street and torrents of water smash through windows.
A 30-foot (9-metre) wall of water smashed into Johnstown at 4 07 pm, killing 2,209 people.
As tons of water smashed past, we edged along the rocky path gasping through the flying, choking spray.
The rural town of Toowoomba, west of the state capital, bore the main brunt, with cars and pedestrians swept off the roads and people left clinging to trees and telephone poles after the wall of water smashed through.
At one surf resort, a wall of water smashed wooden bungalows and left a tour boat in flames on the beach, said Rini Arif, a booking agent in Padang, on Sumatra.
The life raft fell free into the water, smashing its drinking-water container but otherwise doing no damage.
This speeding water smashes into low-pressure water that has entered the same tubes at the other end of the rotor.
Bridges remembered how the pounding water smashed through the door.
