But most factories and shops are reopening or preparing to do so.

That shop, which was five months old when the floods came, has not reopened either.

The schools and shops that were closed on Tuesday reopened.

The shops had just reopened and the streets were teeming.

In the town of 150,000, not a single shop has reopened.

The shop reopened but is open only on weekends, mainly to sell off its remaining merchandise.

Across the city, people emerged from their homes, and some shops reopened.

Their shop has moved around a lot in recent years, and had just reopened on Laugavegur at the time of research.

But the shop reopened a month later, after the violations were corrected.

However the other local shop has now reopened (Mar 2009) and seems to by flourishing.