Their parlous shelter, in the lee of the blue and red vessel, is testimony to the stop-start progress in rebuilding Tacloban, a city of 250,000 people, three months after one of the most powerful storms ever recorded obliterated it, claiming 6,200 lives.
Competing in Götzis in May she set a new personal best, smashing Denise Lewis's 12-year-old British record and obliterating the rest of the field.
By the end he was on a sensational 180 passes, not just beating the record but obliterating it, a GOAT-level performance of wiffling the ball about in midfield that may, for all we know, never be surpassed.
He didn't just take the record; he obliterated it.
Ye's speed raises legitimate questions, especially given China's history with banned substances — the record she obliterated on Saturday had been set by a swimmer in a polyurethane suit, a Flash Gordon outfit so hydrodynamic that hardly any records have fallen since they were banned in 2010.
Within its modulations and pulses, it achieves the perfect state of grace that is the ambition of every dance record: it obliterates the tyranny of the clock – the everyday world of work, responsibility, money – and creates its own time, a moment of pleasure, ecstasy and motion that seems infinitely expandable, if not eternal.
(Brits secretly hoping for a hotter future, be warned: that collapsing sea ice may have caused the freakish jet stream behaviour that made 2012 the wettest English year on record and obliterated this year's spring, both mere amuse-bouche for the feast of climate impacts expected in coming decades, even from the carbon we've emitted so far).
Because no other movie has come anywhere close to the picture's $151.5 million2ndd weekend box office razing, there's no movie comparison that gives its record-obliterating failure proper context.
February didn't break climate change records – it obliterated them.
If his name comes up, it is generally in relation to one of his revered records being obliterated.
It was an evening when track records were obliterated and where a position on the inside rail on the dirt was almost a guarantee of success.
