As fountains of lava shot up 300 feet out of cracks in the ground, waves of the dense, smoldering rock swallowed up cars, devoured trees, decimated houses, and blanketed entire roads.
He said claims by the federal government MP Andrew Laming that an end to mining would "decimate house prices" did not stack up given 55% of houses were owned by non-residents who "invest substantial amounts of money on [the island] but work elsewhere".
"Decimated houses, decimated health care, decimated schools.
In fact, the Obama administration's inaugural covert strike -- which decimated a house in a Pakistani village in 2009 -- was disastrous, striking the house of a tribal elder instead of the intended Taliban hideout and killing five, including two children.
Jeroboam was succeeded by his son Nadab, who reigned for two years before he was overthrown by Baasha, who decimated the house of Jeroboam.
Here in Monson, a town of about 9,000 residents where American flags hang from telephone poles and stately Greek Revival houses line Main Street, entire streets were decimated and houses reduced to piles of rubble.
But we haven't learned from that: instead, the government pushes the idea that home ownership is the only acceptable tenure, while decimating social housing, and therefore bolstering house prices for private landlords and the dwindling number of people who can get on the ladder.
How many times does a tornado have to decimate your house before you consider the possibility that your beloved party just might be mistaken about climate change?
Without insurance, we would have lost our house, decimated the college funds, spent every bit of savings we had, and, six years later, I'm sure we'd still be paying off those bills.
Those who qualified as comfortably well-off have seen the values of their shares and houses decimated, and their children start to look abroad for jobs once more.
She added that if local leaders did not want to see their communities decimated by the housing crisis, they needed to start building on the "uglier parts of the green belt" and introduce rent controls.
