21.   Main office buildings remained closed with lawmakers resorting to cell phones and laptop computers in neighboring office sanctuaries.

22.   Ms. Betsch said that because many heirs of former residents have no interest in the area, buildings remain vacant or boarded up.

23.   No building remains remotely habitable.

24.   On Monday, several buildings on Capitol Hill remained closed.

25.   On Friday, the senators were told that the building would remained closed at least until January.

26.   Only the stone arsenal building remains from the original fort.

27.   People are gone, and buildings remain.

28.   Some congressional office buildings remain shut.

29.   Some unusable splintery old buildings remain.

30.   State officials said they would try to get the government back to some semblance of normal this week even though the State Capitol building remained closed.