Some remain in hospital tents swarming with flies; others have moved to makeshift post-surgical centers; and those who healed quickly, like Ms. Jean, have been discharged to the streets, where they now live.
When my husband and I had first started dating, he would regale me with tales of a 300-year-old whisky-cask-turned-makeshift-post-office in the Galapagos Islands, 973km off the coast of Ecuador.
Mr. Giuliani and a phalanx of other city officials were forced to flee a makeshift command post and walk miles through billowing dust looking for a place to work.
While the soldiers secured the mud huts, Hart and his senior staff began setting up a makeshift command post.
At a makeshift command post, officials from the Immigration and Naturalization Service processed dozens of detained Haitians, many wrapped in yellow blankets.
At a makeshift command post on a bridge outside Triveniganj, near the Nepal border, boats filled with survivors arrived every 10 or 15 minutes.
As the marines pulled closer to the eastern edge of Baghdad this afternoon, senior officers huddled in a makeshift command post to decide their next move.
PONTAIN MEKAR, Indonesia — Sitting in a makeshift security post on a hilltop overlooking scorched earth as far as the eye can see, the last thing Hendro wants to talk about is fire.
Tensions also rose as a double cordon of riot police deployed in the street near Kiev's city administration building, which demonstrators had occupied and turned into a makeshift command post and dormitory.
By nightfall, a Manhattan garage where the F.B.I. stores and services its cars had been transformed into a makeshift command post, averting what could have been a disabling blow in crucial, early days of the inquiry.
