Problem: For Urban Treuil, there's no escaping the misery.

Because of Hurricane Isaac, Treuil's home in Braithwaite, Louisiana, is ruined by floodwaters. So, too, is the gas station and convenience store he owned and ran in the community, 15 miles by car and 10 miles as the crow flies from New Orleans.

But all that pales to what Treuil, the fire chief for Braithwaite and Woodlawn in Plaquemines Parish, saw when he and fellow volunteer firefighters steered their boat up to the home of a couple he knew. Inside, they found the pair floating in the kitchen, the first of at least three fatalities in Louisiana being blamed on Isaac.

"It's not something I want to see, and I hope it's the last ones we do see," said an exhausted Treuil on Friday, a day after he pulled the couple from the home.

In terms of total deaths, Isaac doesn't compare to Hurricane Katrina, which led to nearly 1,800 fatalities in New Orleans and the vicinity seven years ago. Isaac struck Louisiana on Tuesday night as a Category 1 hurricane, not a Category 3 like Katrina.

Don't tell that, though, to the thousands of residents in St. Tammany, Ascension, Plaquemines and other parishes who Friday found their homes and hometowns still deluged. Even with a few drops of drizzle falling all day and with levels down considerably from the previous day, waters were still 10 feet deep in spots.

"This is unbelievable. Deja vu, man," Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish said Thursday as he surveyed the town of Ironton, inundated by floodwater and sludge. "There is more water here than Katrina."
1. Who is Urban Treuil?
2. Where does he live?
3. What happened there?
4. What category was it?
5. Is the same size as Katrina?
6. What was that one?
7. Is Braithwaite near New Orleans?
8. How close?
9. Did the town get flooded?
10. How deep did the water get?
11. Did other nearby towns get flooded too?
12. Which ones?
13. Were any businesses harmed?
14. Which ones?
15. Who owned those?
16. Were there fatalities?
17. How many?
18. Anyone Treuil knew?
19. How many?
20. Who found them?
Answer: 1. fire chief for Braithwaite and Woodlawn
2. Braithwaite, Louisiana,
3. Hurricane Isaac
4. Category 1
5. no
6. Three
7. yes
8. 15 miles by car
9. yes
10. 10 feet deep
11. yes
12. St. Tammany, Ascension, Plaquemines and other parishes
13. yes
14. Gas station and convenience store
15. Treuil
16. yes
17. Three
18. yes
19. Two
20. Treuil and fellow volunteer firefighters

Q: CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

ANXIOUS TIMES--A SEARCH ORGANISED AND VIGOROUSLY CARRIED OUT.

It is not easy to conceive the state of alarm that prevailed in the settlement of the Norsemen when it came to be known that little Snorro and Olaf were lost. The terrible fact did not of course break on them all at once.

For some hours after the two adventurers had left home, Dame Gudrid went briskly about her household avocations, humming tunefully one of her native Icelandic airs, and thinking, no doubt, of Snorro. Astrid, assisted by Bertha, went about the dairy operations, gossiping of small matters in a pleasant way, and, among other things, providing Snorro's allowance of milk. Thora busied herself in the preparation of Snorro's little bed; and Freydissa, whose stern nature was always softened by the sight of the child, constructed, with elaborate care, a little coat for Snorro's body. Thus Snorro's interests were being tenderly cared for until the gradual descent of the sun induced the remark, that "Olaf must surely have taken a longer walk than usual that day."

"I must go and meet them," said Gudrid, becoming for the first time uneasy.

"Let me go with you," said Bertha.

"Come, child," returned Gudrid.

In passing the spot where the little bear had been cut up and skinned, they saw Hake standing with Biarne.

"Did you say that Olaf took the track of the woodcutters?" asked Gudrid.

"Ay, that was their road at starting," answered Biarne. "Are they not later than usual?"

"A little. We go to meet them."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was lost?
2. Was this alarming?
3. Who was Dame thinking of?
4. when she was doing what?
5. what was she doing while doing this?
6. Where did Olaf start on his adventure?
7. Who was this told to?
8. by who?
9. HOw long did Dame do her chores after the two left?
10. what was she humming?
11. How did Gudrid feel?
12. What was she going to do?
13. Did anyone want to go too?
14. who?
15. Who was Bertha assisting?
16. with what?
17. what were they doing?
18. What made Freydissa nicer?
19. was she doing something for him?
20. what?
A: 1. Snorro and Olaf
2. yes
3. Snorro
4. while completing her household avocations
5. humming
6. the woodcutter's track
7. Gudrid
8. Biarne
9. For some hours
10. one of her native Icelandic airs
11. she became uneasy
12. go and meet Snorro and Olaf
13. yes
14. Bertha.
15. Astrid
16. the dairy operations
17. gossiping
18. the sight of Snorro
19. yes
20. a little coat

Problem: Paper was not made in southern Europe until the year of 1100.Thouth Scandinavia now makes a great deal of the world's paper, it had not begun to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that one could make paper from wood. After that, forest countries, such as Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States, became important in paper making. Today in Finland, for example, no industry is bigger than the forest industry. And the paper industry is the most important part of it. Modern paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 750 meters long and six meters wide in one minute. When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes , and writing paper. But there are many other uses. Each year, more and more things are made of paper. We have had paper cups, plates, and dishes for a long time. But now we hear that chairs, a tables and even beds can be made of paper. The newest thing made of paper in the world may be a paper house. It is not a small house for children to play in, but a real, big house for people to live in. it is not expensive. You can put up a paper house yourself in a few hours, and you can use it for about 5 years. ,.
1. When was paper first manufactured in Southern Europe?
2. When did Thouth Scandinavia first make it?
3. Who found out you could use trees to make it?
4. Which geographic feature is the most important consideration in manufacturing it
5. How quickly can modern machines produce it?
6. How much can it make in a minute?
7. What's the largest Finnish industry?
8. Is paper an important part of that?
9. How long can you stay in a residence created from paper?
10. How long does it take to build it?
11. Would that be costly?
12. Can you drink from something made of paper?
Answer:
1. 1100
2. 1500
3. Schaeffer
4. forest countries
5. one minute
6. 750 meters long and six meters wide
7. forest industry
8. yes
9. 5 years
10. a few hours
11. no
12. yes