21.  The agencies have had little success in their appeal for helicopters to drop food and medicine to stranded people.

22.  They were concentrating instead on moving stranded people to higher ground.

23.  Thousands of homes were flooded., and security forces used helicopters to pluck stranded people from the water.

24.  Helicopters were used to rescue several stranded people.

25.  Hundreds of policemen have been deployed to help stranded people.

26.  In British Columbia, work crews tried to dig out passes for hundreds of stranded people caught up in the worst snow storms on record.

27.  The police asked local radio stations to broadcast an appeal to the stranded people, asking those with cellular phones to assist them with future rescue efforts.