21.   Snow and wind thrashed Scandinavia Friday, stranding people in cars, on trains and at home during the worst early snowstorm in memory.

22.   Some people were left stranded on the platform.

23.   The newspaper said the incident happened earlier this week, but did not say where the people were stranded or give the locations of the Libyan villages.

24.   The pouring rain prompted the closure of schools Saturday and stranded many people away from home.

25.   There was no official estimate of how many people were stranded or delayed.

26.   Unusually heavy rain has deluged East Africa since early October, sending rivers over their banks and stranding people on patches of high ground.

27.   The shutdown caused chaos as people were stranded at idle bus stands across several cities and towns, with sharply reduced attendance in private and government offices.

28.   The northern part of the west coast was hammered over the past week by snowstorms that shut major roads and stranded people.

29.   The northern West Coast was hammered over the past week by snowstorms that shut major roads and stranded people.