Fallen trees blocked roads and railways and left widespread structural damage to buildings.

Several thousand protesters clashed with riot police officers, who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators blocking roads and railways leading to the site of the meeting.

The torrential rain blocked highways and railways across six states.

So ferocious was the wind that the trees blew down and blocked the roads and railways.

Students kept up pressure, blocking roads and railways, tying up traffic and halting train service in several cities.

They blocked roads and railways in various parts of the country, angered by the Ministry of Education's order to reopen all high schools closed by the recent protests.

After the 1988 earthquake that killed 25,000 Armenians, Azerbaijanis blocked railways to Armenia, holding up aid.

In Switzerland the storm blocked railways and disrupted flights at Zurich airport, with Central Switzerland and the Zurich wine growing areas worst affected.

Farmers campaigned to have these sales boycotted, and blocked roads and railways.

The Soviets blocked roads, railways and canals, but the Potsdam Agreement guaranteed air corridors to Berlin.