The whole floor, every inch of it, is covered in mud right now. We just cleaned it and this just happened this morning, so we have to start all over again.

Within 10 minutes, it was coming out of the drain.

I never been in this situation before, so it's pretty crazy.

I looked outside, and the water was coming up inch by inch, really, really fast. We were panicking. We didn't know what to do, so we just threw all the dry stuff on top of each other to try and make it so that nothing would get wet.

The right to a clean and safe environment should be regarded as a basic human right. To effectively guarantee this right, the citizens' right to learn environmental information and to participate in environmental protection should be included in the Constitution.

It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to hear that God didn't work that way; the Lord would never want a young woman to trade her body to follow a commandment. Sins couldn't be laundered by good results.