Confusion still reigned, however, among the makeshift check-in counters, as thousands of passengers who had been left stranded Wednesday sought to find their way aboard flights.
If you expect to travel to very rainy places where your bag will get wet, carry a plastic trash bag to use as a makeshift cover or check out backpacking and outdoor sporting stores for more-permanent rain covers.
Later, "Double Check" became a makeshift memorial, covered with notes, balloons, rescue unit emblems, candles, teddy bears and flowers.
If you want to see real design, check out the makeshift knife in your son's pants.
Guards carry out brisk body searches; bags have to be checked into a makeshift cloakroom.
Charko sits at a long makeshift desk in a loft, checking charts and satellite images on two laptops.
But for the young bands that come in pursuit of a big break — or, more likely, a small break — South by Southwest is also hard work, a five-day gantlet of makeshift showcases and insufficient sound checks.
The city's airport also reopened partially on April 3 with a makeshift kiosk performing security and check-in operations.
Surreptitiously checking out the workers' makeshift living quarters where they were cooking dinner on jury-rigged stoves, I wandered around looking for Elisita Balbontin, a Chilean artist who was supposedly somewhere in the vicinity.
In the auditorium, the coat check was transformed into a makeshift childcare venue and the concessions stands hosted volunteers putting together peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Veterinarians examined a rare giant turtle considered sacred by many Vietnamese at a makeshift hospital in Hanoi on Monday to check mysterious lesions afflicting one of the last four known members of its species.
