Take the experience of one midsized textile manufacturer, representative of many sodden local businesses.
Unsmiling security screeners in Charlotte confiscated umbrellas from the sodden delegates by the hundreds.
Police in India spray unruly crowds with coloured water: stained and sodden agitators are easier to identify.
Some countries praised for their breakneck economic growth, such as Angola and Equatorial Guinea, are oil-sodden kleptocracies.
Herewith, then, a modest proposal for the privileged masses en route to a sodden campaign at their Bacchanalian playgrounds.
Mayobridge's five-year reign was ended after they were shocked 1-10 to 1-8 by Kilcoo at a sodden Clonduff on Sunday.
With eight minutes gone, he must have wanted part of the rain-sodden pitch to open up and swallow him whole.
And the South African, who won the WGC-CA Championship on his last outing, continued in untidy fashion on Monday's sodden fairways.
The sodden contents was then put into 'apology bags' by staff and forwarded within 24 hours, according to a Royal Mail spokeswoman.
When I emerged from the Sinn Fein office at Connolly House I found a rain-sodden piece of paper under my windscreen wiper.
The region suffers disproportionately from Russia's demographic curse a 142m-strong population shrinking by 700, 000 a year because of low birth rates and vodka-sodden ill-health.
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On Staten Island, Chati visits her sodden little bungalow every day in a ritual that keeps her going and renews her resolve to rebuild.
Worcester went five points clear at the top of Pool Three as they beat French side Bourgoin 27-6 at a sodden Sixways on Saturday.
Though he guessed that she was no older than thirty, her pale demeanor and sodden dye job had consigned her to an eternal middle age.
There are candles and flowers, bouquets of flowers, Christmas daisies and poinsettias, scores of teddy bears with sodden fur, and Christmas trees hung with decorations.
In theory, the world should still have more than enough water to feed everyone under most circumstances, thanks to sodden places like Canada and Russia.
Sermons on fiscal and monetary policy ring hollow coming from debt-sodden countries where the central banks print money to make up for the politicians' failures.
But when summer comes, this place is stranded, a sodden island teeming with mosquitoes, surrounded by marsh and water, reachable only by air or riverboat.
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With Alexander Hleb at the heart of everything, the German side fizzed first-time passes across the rain-sodden pitch, cutting through the home ranks with alarming ease.
People are rain sodden, they are carrying all their possessions, their animals, they're all leaving town and you're going further into the heart of the hurricane.
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Having said that, Viana lifted his dripping foot out of the water and rested it and its sodden silk sock carefully and distastefully on the grass.
The striking feature is the church's interior: velvet-cushioned pews crushed on top of each other, sodden floorboards and a broken drum set -- picture perfect upheaval.
And the first Ryder Cup staged at a purpose-built course will unfortunately be remembered as the first to need a fourth day because of a sodden course.
It was harsh on the Tigers, who fought back from 16-0 down with tries from Stuart Jones, Kirk Dixon and Rangi Chase and Shenton at a sodden Jungle.
He had been confident that he would seduce them, as he was famous for doing with students and colleagues, by means of generosity, immodesty, flamboyant declarations, sodden affection.
Galleries in Chelsea have been working to salvage sodden artwork.
Fans sang along with hits from their formidable back catalogue, enjoying the sci-fi escapism and virtuoso frontman Matt Bellamy's classical flourishes before trudging back through sodden campsites to their tents.
Because of this England are a much tougher proposition than before and that is why they are drinking the champagne, and dancing and singing in the rain in a sodden Adelaide.
Chances were at a premium at Newlands because of the heavy rain and sodden pitch and few of the Lions were able to stake a claim for inclusion in the second Test.
Months of picnics, outdoor shows and wine-sodden nights in summertime finery (or, at the very least, jean shorts and well-worn wife beaters -- however it is you roll) stretch out before you.
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