Arctic conditions leave us feeling under the weather

Snow chaos added to the misery of floods and heavy rain yesterday, turning roads across southern England into giant skid pans. Entire communities (1) _____________________ and hundreds of cars and lorries (2) ____________________ . Major routes froze after they (3)________________ and thousands of commuters gave up the struggle and (4) __________________. A motorist who died when his car skidded into the Grand Union Canal (5) ____________________________ . A ski center (6) __________________ and skiers (7) ________________________ because there was too much snow on the plastic runs.

The rest of Europe (8) ________________________ has also been hit by the bad weather. Roads in the Pyrenees (9) _______________________ and several motorists (10) ______________________. More bad weather (11) ________________________.