The actual numbers were far from devastating -- a percentage-point change in outlook here, maybe two points over there.
But even if the raid was far from devastating, it signaled a departure in how Israel intends to respond to terrorist attacks, in this case a suicide bombing outside Haifa on Sunday that wounded 21 Israelis.
Later, the route will wind through central Italy, not far from the area devastated by an earthquake last month in the Abruzzo region.
On Oct. 8, 1871, Peshtigo, Wis., a lumber town not far from Green Bay, was devastated along with 1.25 million acres of surrounding forest.
Far more devastating from the audience's perspective are the personal losses: the moment Alice gets lost at home looking for the loo, the time she forgets she has met her son's new girlfriend, and the moment, eventually, when she struggles to recognise her daughter Lydia.
It wasn't a fake, but it was far from murderous or devastating.
The wake of oil spread far from Bligh Reef, devastating life in Prince William Sound, killing over a quarter of a million seabirds at the large colonies in neighbouring Cook Inlet, before moving along the coast of Kodiak and to a point on the Alaska Peninsula 460 miles to the south.
From devastating to goofily adorable: such range.
