31.   Shivering tourists in soaked T-shirts and shorts wandered around, inquiring about when the nearby airport would reopen or when telephone service would resume.

32.   The airport reopened about two hours later.

33.   The airport reopened Saturday to receive the regular scheduled TAP flight from Lisbon.

34.   The airport reopened with shuttle flights to New York and Boston and limited service to six other cities, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

35.   Telephone lines were either down or jammed with calls, and the airport reopened to only limited flights Sunday.

36.   The airport reopened and a cloud-seeding program that has provoked rain in the area continued.

37.   The airport reopened in the evening.

38.   The airport later reopened but the main road linking it with Dushanbe was blocked by floods.

39.   The airport reopened early Friday afternoon.

40.   The airport reopened Monday afternoon.