Wind-whipped whitecaps curled over thetopoftheflood walls near the Claiborne Avenue railroad bridge while others poured across the levee in the Gentilly neighborhood, north of downtown.
Exeter City Labour MP Ben Bradshaw said the city saw "noticeable near misses where the water was pretty much up to the current topof our flood defences".
India's top federal investigation agency will probe a series of attacks on rare one-horned rhinos by suspected poachers in the flood-hit state of Assam, a senior minister has said.
But it is expected that the lines, though offered, will not be used, the analogy being that flood insurance is cheaper and more widely available for those who live at the very topof a mountain.