| Corrugated huts house additional families in backyards and the shanty towns overflow with new arrivals. |
| The residents were directed to whitewash houses, clean backyards and houses, fence wells and clean latrines twice a day, within 24 hours. |
| Bomb shelters in basements or backyards abounded, and schoolchildren built models of shelters for science fairs. |
| Most of the houses in the settlement still had ramshackle wooden or corrugated iron structures in their backyards. |
| Waterfront homeowners also will be encouraged to restore oyster reefs in their own backyards. |
| There were singing people on the bus, crooners in backyards and I even hummed a note or two. |
