When she visited again, it was gone, unrecognizable, the building crushed by the force of a bomb that weighed as much as a compact automobile.
But in an office building crushed last week by the collapsing 7 World Trade Center lie some 35,000 photographs capturing some great moments on the American stage.
I saw one school building crushed under a large tree... it was as if our house was being pulled from its foundations".
In fact, it has been dead for days, ever since Froome came through and crushed the buildings, crushed Mont Ventoux and crushed the stage 17 time trail in such a robust, august fashion.
Number of people killed: 7 Number injured: 24 Number of buildings crushed into rubble: 1 Number of buildings evacuted: 17 Explanations for how this could happen: 0 (so far).
Parts of buildings, crushed vehicles and the shoes, purses, umbrellas and baby carriages of those who fled lay covered with thick, gray ash, through which weeping people wandered in search of safety, each with a story of pure horror.
Storm Leaves Long Trail Of Damage Along Gulf The remnants of Hurricane Ivan, greatly diminished but still dangerous, churned a path north, leaving felled trees, buildings crushed like tissue paper and hundreds of thousands without power in Alabama and Florida.
The tsunami that hit Japan's northeastern coast four months ago tore through the modest downtown, gutting buildings, crushing cars like beer cans and sweeping shops out to sea.
As part of the demolition, the original building was crushed and used as gravel fill for the parking lot.
The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck west of Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, on April 25th toppled buildings and crushed the unlucky people inside.
The Mehrgarh complex, occupied for 4,000 years, sits beside the Bolan River in Baluchistan, on a plain that was repeatedly buried in alluvial deposits that not only destroyed mud-brick buildings but crushed many skeletons in the graveyard.
