When a house collapsed, the family that lived in it was forced to move to the market area. Still, they returned to the site throughout the day, the children for school, and the man to spend time with other fishermen.

​

Often, he would end up playing cards among the remains of his own home: a broken wall and a wooden frame, stripped of its tadi-leaf roof that had been torn away in a recent cyclone. The men would sit there through the afternoon, playing cards.

​

Within a few days, the wooden structure would be dismantled. Its pieces would be reused to build temporary extensions to other houses or burned as firewood—for cooking meals or heating water for bathing.