Little Rock's ruins

John Kahn and several other Little Rock Hashers with whom Rock was less familiar were way down on the southern edge of Little Rock, next to the ruins near the two-lane highway that led to Pine Bluff. Though Rock had been there many times, it was the first time John had seen this patch of abandoned skyscrapers, which sixty or seventy years earlier highlighted Little Rock's original downtown.
Now it looked similar to a war zone. Some of the buildings had collapsed long ago. Their upper floors, still somewhat intact, jutted out at random angles from deep piles of concrete rubble. Many others remained standing, but their walls had crumbled away in places to expose stairwells and entire floors packed full of desks and other furniture someone had surely planned to retrieve at some point.
John and his friends were there first, and when Rock arrived, he was concerned to see some of the men climbing stairs into the upper reaches of one of the buildings.
"You need to get those guys to come down," he said. "Those buildings are all due to collapse."
"I don't think they know that," John said.