Homework - Floods

Read the story. Look at the picture. Answer the questions.

ISTANBUL – Flash floods gushed across a major highway in Istanbul today, killing at least 20 people and stranding dozens in cars or on rooftops, the city's governor said. Some of the dead drowned inside their vehicles.

Waters rose more than three feet high.

The governor said eight other people were still missing and 20 others were injured.

People climbed onto the roofs of their cars, hoping to be rescued. Television footage showed trucks crushed against each other by the powerful floods.

Questions:

1) How many people were killed in the floods?

2) How high did the waters rise?

3) How many many people are still missing?

4) When did the floods happen?

5) Where did the floods happen?

Info and pic taken from Yahoo news. 

Due on Thursday, 9/10/09