1.   Elderly people were stranded for days without food or shelter at welfare payment offices, having used their last few cents to get there.

2.   Making an otherwise unbearable day worse, sporadic power outages knocked out traffic lights across the San Fernando Valley, causing traffic jams and stranding people in elevators.

3.   Several counties in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia reported flooded roads and stranded people.

4.   She and the parish doctor decided that day that they had to visit places where they knew people must be stranded and that were probably not being helped.

5.   A blizzard and avalanche on Monday hit a one-lane highway on the Himalayan foothills, stranding people in their vehicles.

6.   At least a dozen were hurt, and as night fell, five people were still stranded in the field.

7.   At least a dozen were hurt, and as night fell, five people were still stranded in the mine field.

8.   Because so many people are still stranded, the full impact of the diseases on the population remains unclear.

9.   He said up to one million people were stranded by the high water.

10.   Many people were left stranded with no way of getting to work on Sunday, the start of the business week in Islamic Pakistan.