31.   Old clapboard houses stand on the side streets, with firewood piled high on porches.

32.   Only a concrete slab with a door frame remained where a house once stood.

33.   On one block in Rema, nothing remains but thick clumps of weeds that smother the concrete foundations where tiny houses once stood.

34.   Returning from a Colorado vacation a few years ago, I made a detour to see if my old school house was still standing.

35.   Save a porch light blown out by a bullet, the house still stood.

36.   Shirley Kunsker, pointing to where her house once stood before the crash leveled it, says she and her husband, Sam, are planning to rebuild.

37.   Situated at the mouth of a creek-fed hollow overlooking a grassy meadow, the big house stood tall.

38.   Six houses once stood between me and the shattered house -- the rushing floodwaters spawned by Georges swept them away.

39.   Some trickled back in the darkness, armed with flashlights and sneaking around police roadblocks, only to find concrete foundations where houses once stood.

40.   Some houses stood intact.