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Heavy rains caused flooding up to six feet deep in parts of Jakarta on Saturday, immobilizing traffic in the city of 10 million people and stranding residents in mosques, schools and even rooftops. There were no immediate reports of deaths, injuries or serious damage. The runoff from torrential rains that started at midnight overwhelmed the city's network of rivers, many of which are blocked by waste and have been narrowed by construction along their banks.

1. (Flooding at a glance) 2. Kingston, Idaho, resident Tom Rahm and his dog, Endo, help their neighbor evacuate Friday. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review 3. Colfax residents turned out Friday morning to shore up a levee against the rising Palouse River. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

1. Randy Proctor rides a personal watercraft down the main street of Palouse on Friday. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Downtown Palouse, including riverfront mobile homes and the road on either side of the bridge, were flooded on Friday. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 3. Amy Voth, 13, and Audrey Bensel, 13, offer 'refuge' at the Dayton Community Bible Church. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Flood waters are splashing up against uninsured homes in Washington and Idaho. "I would hazard to guess that most of them didn't have insurance," said Les Ruhs, a Colfax agent with Associated Independent Agencies.

Ken Cahill rescues Calvin, his father's cat, from a landslide in Dodson, Ore. Photo by Associated Press

1. Houses in Potlatch, Idaho, are engulfed by floodwaters on Friday. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 2. Cataldo resident Steve Matthews helps position sandbags under the I-90 overpass. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Spectators in Corvallis, Ore., walk across the Highway 34 bridges, which were closed to vehicles on Thursday. Photo by Associated Press

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North Idaho drivers watched as their roads turned into flood zones Thursday. Officials shut down Ramsey Road between Dalton and Prairie avenues as water filled the major Coeur d'Alene thoroughfare. The sheeting rain and melting snow caused rock and mud slides on several area highways.

1. Clark Mabbutt passes another sand bag along a chain of volunteers who turned out to shore up a levy threatened by rising water in Colfax, Wash. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2. Brad Brunko is one of 18 Idaho National Guardsmen who responded to a request for sandbags from the Rose Lake General Store. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review 3. Thelma McDonald of French Gulch surveys a homemade berm of plastic and gravel. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 4. Steve York hands belongings to Steve Matthews as they unload Matthews' pickup during a hasty evacuation Thursday in Cataldo. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Thirsting for moisture just two years ago, Palouse farmers now wish the rain would stop. "It's 99 percent runoff," said Dave Strong, manager of Latah County Grain Growers Inc. in Moscow. "This kind of moisture is not helping anyone." Flooding Thursday stopped Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. from moving grain cars into the Palouse while farmers watched overrun creeks forge new routes across fields planted with wheat.

1. Mike Herbst braves knee-deep mud to check on his mother's home at Patit and Cottonwood in Dayton. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review 2. Norm Eaton helps his nephews haul muck out of their driveway on Second Street in Dayton. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review

1. Clark Mabbutt passes another sandbag along a chain of volunteers who turned out to shore up a levee threatened by rising water in Colfax. Wash. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2. The Palouse River roars through downtown Colfax. Many residents said they had never seen the river this high, and it was still rising Thursday night. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 3. Kelsey Brooks, 12, leads her duck, "Pingers," to higher ground Thursday in Colfax. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 4. Colfax firefighters help sandbag the levee at the north end of town Thursday afternoon. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

The Pacific Northwest's worst flooding in more than 30 years pushed rivers over their banks and closed highways from Oregon to Western Montana Thursday. Fast-melting snow and days of heavy rains triggered the deluge. Hundreds of tired workers, many of them volunteers, battled surging waters with plywood and sandbags from downtown Portland to small farm towns like Colfax and Palouse in Whitman County.

Rueben Tiersma, 9, and John Meredith, 11, watch for debris in Tekoa. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

Avalanche danger and heavy rainfall kept highways closed Tuesday across the state's two most heavily traveled Cascade mountain passes, a state Transportation Department spokesman said. And rivers were rising around the state as rain and mild temperatures followed last week's deep freeze.

Idaho Transportation Department crews battled an ice jam that dammed Trestle Creek on Sunday and sent water pouring into a nearby recreational vehicle park. "They removed tons of ice, logs and debris," said neighbor Scott Hancock. "We have ice floes here that are 4 and 5 feet across." The ice jam near Hope was the first big one this year, Transportation Department district engineer Tom Baker said.

Beware! It's warmer out there. Warmer temperatures arrives as predicted Monday, causing clush piddles, muddy cars and slick streets in North Idaho. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Emergency crews rushed across icy Eastern Washington on Monday evening, dealing with more than 100 accidents, including a lethal two-car wreck in Stevens County. C.W. Miller, 60, of Colville died of head and internal injuries after the car he was riding in was struck head-on north of Addy on Highway 395. Washington State Patrol troopers said the highway was slick with water and ice when the accident occurred about 4 p.m.