The lights inside the store dimmed. Outside, on the 16th Street Mall, most pedestrians kept walking, and the shuttle buses kept moving. A few blocks away, the cry of the bagpipe hung in the air. The governor and his wife disappeared into the Capitol building. And Nancy Johnson's 28 kindergarteners stretched out on the grass and rolled down the hillside.
Life goes on.
Staff writers Joe Garner, Burt Hubbard, Gary Massaro, Lori Tobias and Brian Weber contributed to this report.