21.   At the Orkin Termite Pavillion, right, a termite tube from the ground makes it way up a concrete block foundation into a crack, then inside.

22.   Beside them sit pallets of concrete blocks, bottled water, generators, plywood and other construction supplies and equipment.

23.   - The afternoon before Josh Smith slipped the steak knife into his cargo pants, two classmates raised a concrete block and threatened to bash in his head.

24.   A five-foot-tall concrete block fence fronting the campground was blown over, its foundation exposed to the sky.

25.   A rudimentary factory makes concrete blocks to build houses.

26.   A. If you can feel around inside that concrete block house, check to see if the rest of the floor is dry or wet.

27.   A. It seems to be a general practice to put condensers on concrete blocks to keep them off the ground and keep them level.

28.   A tidy sugar cube of pale beige stucco smoothly troweled over concrete blocks, its mass-market modernism shelters two bedrooms and one bath.

29.   A. Remove the window and fill up the space with concrete blocks or bricks, mortared in place.

30.   Actually, the concrete blocks are probably a legitimate equivalent to a concrete slab.