The front door caved in during a rush of water which flooded into the village from the nearby Walkerwood reservoir after it had become blocked and overflowed.
Yes, a spade, the club queen or the club eight (not the three, because the suit would have become blocked) would have worked better, but who would have chosen one of those cards?
A Boeing 757 carrying 189 people crashed five minutes after taking off in February 1996 because the pitot tube – which measures the speed of an aeroplane – had become blocked by a wasps nest.
Blood-vessel grafts are frequently used to bypass arteries that have become blocked or dangerously narrowed by fatty deposits, a condition caused by degenerative atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
The taxi crossed into Northwest D.C. H Street seemed to have become blocked with potholes, and somehow, to avoid the potholes, the taxi ended up on Massachusetts Avenue, where the city-government people never failed to battle the pothole problem because the senators and congressmen went back and forth on that street to Capitol Hill.
Owner Noel Prosser claimed it was because the main drain in the centre of the village had become blocked.
This should come from selling the pellets as well as from saving the cost of cleaning and replacing pipes that have become blocked by a phosphorus-based sediment called struvite.
-Cholesterol embolism: This type of embolism can form by itself, or following treatment to widen the arteries if they've become blocked up with fatty deposits (plaques).
By Hellenistic times, the city had moved to a new site south of what is now Bat Galim because the port's harbour had become blocked with sand.
However, all its passageways "had become blocked by a solidified mass of rubble, small stones and rubbish which had been carried into the tomb by floodwaters" and it was not until the 1903-1904 excavation season that Howard Carter, after 2 previous seasons of strenuous work, was able to clear its corridors and enter its double burial chamber.
