As businesses and schools shut down and canceled activities at a breathtaking pace, I hurried home.
It may take a few weeks, a few canceled activities and the end of the N.C.A.A. tournament before reality sinks in for some.
Many Houston-area schools cancelled activities in anticipation of the rain.
He said he wanted to cancel activities, including an evening concert, but Mr. Arellano had insisted that the day go on as planned.
Mr. Boyne says the camp has resulted in stained granite tiles, required the bank to cancel activities and charity events planned for the space and created safety concerns over debris and cooking over open and gas fires.
I have endured invasive tests, misguided treatment, the unrelenting horror of a body that is out of control, and the shame and humiliation of having to cancel activities at sort notice, because of the condition.
In a petition presented today to the Vatican's chief diplomatic representative, a delegation of rabbis asked "His Honor" John Paul II "to please change your schedule" and cancel activities between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday, the penultimate 24 hours of the pope's six-day visit to Israel and adjacent Palestinian-ruled territories.
France's oldest festival was forced to cancel activities in 2003 because of a similar dispute, and organisers are hoping that other disruptions planned by union members between now and 27 July, when the final curtain falls, will be kept to a minimum.
Recurrently needing to cancel activities and thereby, possibly, spoil things for others was experienced as being harder than the symptoms themselves, which led to less desire to do things and fewer social contacts.
Nascar canceled all activity at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama because of threats of severe weather.
