His resignation on Monday was a blow to the Bush administration, which is increasingly turning to the Federal Housing Administration, a unit of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to help stanch the widening flood of foreclosures.
Federal authorities redrew the map to widen the flood plain and include the property.
Roads have been widened and repaired, flood walls constructed in low-lying areas subject to tidal inundation, and housing built.
The flood widened Hells Canyon but did not deepen it.
At the confluence with Castle Creek, the valley widened and offered a flood plain conducive to the development of a town.
Although malnutrition has always been prevalent in Pakistan, the scale of the problem has widened because of the floods.
The flood has since widened and deepened.
Those floods deepened and widened the existing Columbia River valley and were largely responsible for the present profile of the gorge.
Eighteen thousand years ago walls of water known as the Missoula Floods deepened and widened the river, which is now up to 8 miles wide and 100 feet deep.
It's those navigating the roughest parts of the river of social change, not those cruising along where the river has widened to a lazy, stagnant flood plain where people can afford the luxury of complacency and conservatism.
