The fire was only the latest calamity to strike the Cabildo.
The basket, the last one for the Clippers in their 99-86 victory at the Staples Center, was a fitting end to the Knicks' latest calamity.
And there was hope that the latest calamity, if the downtown is rebuilt, would result in stronger buildings and housing above the shops.
The dust has begun to settle at New York's Commodity Exchange from its latest calamity.
In those long hours of routine they talk, to one another, to the press at the scene of the latest calamity, to anyone who will listen.
The girls' deaths were the latest calamity in a treacherous stretch of water off Rockaway Beach, where sudden, fierce currents have drowned other people in recent years.
All eyes were on the old T'ang, noting his sudden frailty, the way his shoulders hunched forward at this latest calamity.
The latest calamity is drought.
The latest calamity?
In the wake of their latest calamity, Sparky Anderson was speechless.