On the morning of July 16, residents heard a roar, looked out their windows and saw no canopy, no driveway — just a hole in the ground filled with tons of debris and a dust cloud.
Twenty million to 25 million cubic yards of debris fill the streets, yards, sidewalks and canals of Port-au-Prince — enough to fill five Louisiana Superdomes.
("When I was at Flood, one of our dams filled with debris overnight," a former employee remarked to me. "If any more rain came, we were going to have to evacuate the whole of Pasadena").
While following the young man around throughout the front lines, the cameras capture the sheer destruction that has grasped Homs -- rows and rows of desolate streets filled with debris, collapsed houses, hastily abandoned living rooms and rotting bodies.
Since the Americans have invested most in space, it is they who could suffer more if war or accident were to fill space with clouds of debris and kill or blind their satellites.At least write a spaceway codeIn the meantime, the big spacefaring countries ought to consider negotiating some less formal rules of the road.
The Spanish artist Elena del Rivero's studio, which was located across from the World Trade Center, was filled with debris in the wake of the attacks on 9/11.
The base of the reactor buildings was filled with debris.
He said the bodies of the two women were lying at the side of Third Avenue in an area filled with debris under the expressway overpass.
Patrick's grandmother once bought an entire village street in order to expand the garden of their French estate; members of her family grew up in houses filled "with the debris of failed dynasties — splashing about in Marie Antoinette's black marble bath, while their yellow Labradors dozed on carpets from the throne room of the imperial palace in Peking".
Land clearance revealed two ditches filled with debris such as bones and pieces of pottery.
