1.   He returned to find the devastation, but his family had survived.

2.   Now the Serbs had pulled out, and he returned to find utter devastation.

3.   Two years ago, residents of this surfside resort just east of Wilmington returned to their island after the passing of Hurricane Fran and found utter devastation.

4.   They found systematic devastation, with house after house gutted and burned, some with gaping holes in what remained of the walls.

5.   University of Georgia scientists who expected to find devastation surrounding the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl say the area includes patches of countryside little touched by radiation.