A driver abandoned her flooded vehicle on Interstate-85 near Lilburn, Ga., during rush hour Monday. Days of torrential rain in the southeast have claimed at least eight lives, including a 15-year-old boy whose body was found in the Chattooga River. (Curtis Compton/The Atlanta Journal Constitution via Associated Press)
Barry Covert hosed down a field as a wildfire approached south of Ashland, Ore., Monday. Residents who evacuated from nearby Medford started returning home after the wind-drive....

