That said, this morning feels different, and it's worth putting a thermometer up the national rectum and taking a temperature check on how we're feeling today – here, in the aftermath, crunched concrete lying around us in blocks, exposed electrical cables quietly hissing.
The Al Rashid Hotel was still standing at the end of last week, for instance, but, right next to it, a small building that I was told had been a police computer center had been entirely flattened, its concrete slabs crunched down onto one another like a sandwich.
Most disturbing of all were the sounds it generated as it collided with, and digested, the stuff of the human world: the crunch and squeal of wood and concrete, metal and tile.
But the tyres bit and gripped as sure as on concrete, and the crust crunched under us.
A hybrid Big Bang-Big Crunch (BB-BC) optimization algorithm is applied to the design of reinforced concrete frames.
One day, Diego said he was playing soccer on a concrete basketball court when he fell and felt his arm crunch.
Exposing students to experiments, data crunching and lab floors, of course, helps make academic abstractions more concrete.
Disappointed by the lack of significant breakthroughs, Altmaier demanded concrete action on climate change from bigger industrialised nations ahead of a crunch meeting in Paris in 2015.
For outdoors, don't go on any dead leaves or branches as the make enormous crunching sounds, and try to walk on solid ground or anything solid (tree roots, concrete etc, etc).
