Q. My house was built in the ’40s and has a cinder-block foundation. On the inside, it has paint that’s peeling. Some of the blocks are crumbling, but the problem is not deep, less than an inch.

When I first moved into my junior year dorm room, it felt like I was moving into a sad, dull box - one with cinder-block walls, linoleum floors, and outdated vertical blinds. But instead of being ...

Cinder block debris from the wall fell onto parked cars, smashing in their roofs. By Heather Navarro • Published May 12, 2023 • Updated on May 12, 2023 at 7:05 am NBC Universal, Inc.