'Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky, stormy weather, since my girl and I ain't together, keeps raining all the time ...' - Judy Garland's Stormy Weather
Sammy the storm
Read this account of a tropical storm in the Atlantic and fill in the gaps with the correct verb from the list. There are more verbs than you will need.
Lost / blowing / transported / reached / knows / eaten / used / knocked / poured / flowed
Tropical storm Sammy has now been __________ over the Atlantic for four days, hitting the islands of the Caribbean with heavy rains, flooding and mudslides. Already, at least 115 people have __________ their lives. Yesterday Sammy's winds __________ 75 miles an hour. Sammy is the deadliest storm to hit the West Atlantic region this year. Rescuers have __________ boats and helicopters to get help to dozens of island villages stranded by floods and landslides.
Sammy has __________ rain and destruction on island communities without any signs of stopping since last Saturday. Muddy waters have __________ over a dam and washed into homes and over roads. The flooding has __________ out electricity supplies and phone services, isolating many small communities. All airports in the region are closed and no one __________ when they will re-open. The US National Storm Centre has forecast that the worse is yet to come.
Is it stormy outside?