11.   Palm trees swayed violently and sheets of rain drenched the popular beach resort town of Kenting, where streets were empty and shops were tightly shuttered.

12.   Police banned street parking as of Wednesday evening and urged merchants to shutter their shops along the planned march route from the Montparnasse train station to the Education Ministry.

13.   All along the dusty mud road that is the main street of Samani, the shops were shuttered.

14.   Almost all shops were shuttered in observance of a commercial strike called by Palestinian officials to protest the taxes.

15.   Although the terminal appeared complete on the inside, shops still were shuttered and workers were likely to be putting the finishing touches on the airport as Clinton arrived.

16.   An eerie calm prevailed more than an hour after the time the demonstration was due to start and most shopkeepers shuttered their shops.

17.   Bookshop owners frantically shuttered their shops while families dining at kerb-side restaurants scrambled for cover.

18.   Bookshop owners frantically shuttered their shops while families dining at roadside restaurants scrambled for cover.

19.   But mud shops were shuttered this particular Thursday.

20.   Cocoa Beach was like a ghost town late Monday as hotels and shops were shuttered and the Cocoa Beach Pier was roped off from visitors.