mangle

The mangled carcasses of buildings dot the churned-up landscape, some leaning at crazy angles.

In 1812, a year of dramatic battles in North America, Europe and Russia, some Russians founded a Sonoma County outpost called Fort Ross, probably an Anglicized mangling of the word “Russ,” for Russia.

Pavements and shop fronts have been left mangled.

Workers operated excavators to pull large objects and mangled metal from building foundations, tossing the debris into freight containers.

A child’s dollhouse jammed against a chain-link fence marked “No Trespassing” sits in the shadow of a mangled brick home covered in clotted dirt.