Our tablet is about a flood - about a man who is told by his god to build a boat and to load it with his family and animals, because the deluge is about to wipe humanity from the face of the earth.

Among these was the Flood Tablet, deciphered by George Smith in ... When the seventh day dawned the storm from the south subsided. . . . I looked at the face of the world and there was silence ...

A large part of South Texas is reeling from life-threatening flooding that began overnight and continued into Friday morning.