Caption: It?s pretty amazing how easily one of those houses can come down. While I was photographing this one, the bulldozer started pushing over the house, and the entire thing ripped off its foundation and was lying on its side with the walls intact. Then the bulldozer just drove right over it and smashed it as it went. They don?t need a wrecking ball. The bulldozer would just go right through as if the house were made a papier mache. There was a lot of noise and lot of dust, boards cracking, and loud screeches when nails that had been set in for 50 years ripped out. That was the only one I saw tip over. The bulldozer?s blade is maybe 10 feet across, so it would just push the walls in and snap the two by-fours. Usually, the house would just cave in.?.
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