1.   Everywhere cars were stranded and streets were impassable by midday.

2.   A brief rainstorm Friday night flooded the city, worsening the usual traffic nightmare that commonly strands cars for hours.

3.   Cars were stranded in flooded streets.

4.   In the desert flats near the town of Jericho, cars have been stranded in mounds of sand.

5.   Several cars were stranded in the other half and a truck swept off the road tilted into a ditch, its cab covered by water.

6.   Several cars were stranded along the other half and a truck swept off the road tilted into a ditch, its cab covered by water.

7.   Several hundred cars were stranded at the highway just north of Sidon at sundown by Israeli naval fire, which echoed as far north as Beirut.

8.   Several cars were stranded in the highway, and a truck was tilted into a ditch, its cab covered by water.

9.   The newspaper quoted officials as saying the floods had washed out roads in rural areas, destroyed coffee crops and stranded cars.

10.   Torrential rains caused heavy floods in parts of Istanbul on Monday, stranding cars and forcing people in some neighborhoods to flee their homes.