He is strong.
He is a strong man.
He is … strong.
He is strong. Really strong.
With one hand Strahan seizes the 16-pound sledge hammer and
raises it over his head, his wrist cocked like a fly fisherman about to make a
cast. With a twist of his torso, his arm whips forward and the head of the
sledge smashes down into the wall, punching through as if the lathe and plaster
were wet cardboard. He steps back, swings the hammer wide, like a cavalryman
about to slash an enemy and brings the sledge across horizontally, gouging an
arc six feet across through the shattered plaster.
With a crash the lower half of the wall collapses while the
upper section hangs in splinters, a chaos of white and brown stalactites. An
observer, face white from the flying dust, jumps back, tripping over a length
of fallen wood.
Strahan flips the sledge in the air the way a juggler might
toss a bowling pin. It rotates with an audible swish. Down it comes. He catches
it by the handle, keeping it level in spite of the rotational force of the ball of iron at the end.
“That wall is not a bearing wall,” Strahan says. “Don’t
worry, cupcake. The rest of this house isn’t going anywhere.”
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