1.   He cleared tangled piles of brand new sweat pants and blouses and baby clothes from his couch.

2.   It ripped off the face of the Humberto Vidal Building, collapsing the first three floors into a tangled pile of concrete chunks, steel beams and wires.

3.   Security guards peeled men from the tangled pile.

4.   Nothing but a tangled pile of rubble, timber and metal was left of the collapsed house which had just been fully restored.

5.   Pedestrians crunched broken glass underfoot on sidewalks in the area as shopkeepers rummaged through tangled piles of merchandise or covered gaping display windows with wooden planks.