1. Instead we used our ponchos as makeshift tents. 2. The refugees slept in makeshift tents at the side of the road. 3. When the rains came, they huddled under umbrellas and makeshift tents and donned ponchos or raincoats fashioned from plastic garbage bags. 4. Around them, others camped in makeshift tents or lay on dusty blankets, resting up for their ordeal. 5. At the scene, protesters put up a makeshift tent beside a tangle of concrete and wires, the remains of the demolished house. 6. About a dozen listless families are still living in makeshift tents spread out in the town square, where pigs and dogs root through the dirt. 7. Clothes and people were scattered among the rocks and shrubs, while others huddled under a makeshift tent rescuers had built from tarpaulins, sticks and branches. 8. Families spill out of the makeshift tents. 9. First, allied forces had logistical problems delivering food to the hordes of people who were gathering in makeshift tent cities. 10. For many living in makeshift tent camps without proper toilets or washing facilities, the threat of killer diseases seems real. |