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This Week's Theme: "Destroyed"

Description: Take a picture of something destroyed. A building after a fire, a partially collapsed abandoned house, a guitar after your last gig, etc.

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Smashing Pumpkins

Broken


Number 2? That must have been a Number 11!

Destroyed: The Infrastructure


^{(^)}

/apparently the gubmint didn't want to show up at the fair...

ONE OUT OF THREE
Ground fault circuit interrupter, destroyed by Ruth

My childhood cat. Or rather, her cremains.


Stupid cancer...

TWO OUT OF THREE
Charcoal fluid(empty), destroyed by Ruth

THREE OUT OF THREE
Dog bed, destroyed by(seeing a pattern here?) Ruth

The house next door (on the other side of the cemetery, of course). Ok, it's the back garage/workshop type thing, but it's part of the house. Said house is also abandoned. 1/3:

Ta Da!!

Kid hit a tree at 60mph with this car.

He walked away with a few bruises.

Yes he had his seat belt on

Yes that is the back 1/2 of the car on the left.

Whats left of the old Shooters Nightclub

Providence RI

Fruit Rollover truck!

Thanks for delaying my commute home guy!

Something's gotta go by fire. I figure fire will be a popular means of destruction, but we had such a happy campfire the other night that I couldn't resist. Someone tossed the pullout corner of the Holy Dew fridge thingy in the fire. 2/3:

I failed to get the action shot I wanted, but I hope this suffices. There is still a show of motion in the blocks. Getting the timing right on an unpredictable kid is rather hard. This was one of his less robust attempts at knocking down the block tower. 3/3:

An abandoned homestead in the ghost town of Storrs, Montana. Storrs was a coal mining town from 1902-1908. After a few years of producing poor quality coal, the mine shut down and the inhabitants either moved on to a new mining town, or stayed and attempted ranching and farming. This particular homestead was built after the mine closed, and was briefly home to a cattle ranch. After the mine closed in 1908, the town began slowly dying. In 1910, the town's post office closed. In 1918, the local railroad branch line (Turkey Trail Railroad) quit service to the area.

Currently, the area is starting to grow again, and is an affluent suburb of Bozeman, Mt with many homes and ranches. Many remains of the town are still in the area, including several old homesteads like this one, several barns, the foundation of a large hotel, 50 coke ovens, and numerous open mine shafts still remain. Almost all of the remains are on private property now, but many are visible from public land.

See pictures of Storrs in it's heyday here,