1.   Blocked roads, wildcat action and frayed nerves tested the patience of commuters and consumers across the continent.

2.   High winds blew down trees, cut power, and blocked roads in Madison yesterday.

3.   Blocked roads meant that many motorists could not get home for several hours.

4.   At an elementary school here, de Holsthoek, some children have been kept at home and some have been unable to travel to school because of blocked roads.

5.   But tensions remained high, the result of a strike by taxi drivers that blocked roads and brought commerce and transport to a near halt throughout this Andean country.

6.   Local PAN supporters maintained a sometimes-violent picket line at City Hall for three months, and blocked roads and highways in protest.

7.   None of the vehicles could enter the town because of the blocked roads.

8.   Sometimes the floods offered more than mud, blocked roads and snapped tree trunks.

9.   They gathered for early morning prayer vigils, blocked roads that could soon come under Palestinian control, and waved Israeli flags.

10.   Police blocked roads leading into Hasslarp on Saturday and were closely watching a Bandidos clubhouse in nearby Kattarp.