Today's OneWord: Calamity

The entire town had suffered an enormous calamity when the earthquake struck. The mayor had been killed in a massive pile up of bricks in the should-be condemned town hall. His wife, a widow, ran for mayor soon afterward, but the tone of the entire town was off-kilter. People cried on their way to the grocery store, which still sat amidst the residue of catastrophe-induced rubble. Even dogs whined more often. And I sat alone in my now ramshackle house with no one to hold me in bed.