My theory is that a fire broke out and the backdraft was the wind that destroyed both structures
The Three Little Pigs is a nursery rhyme and fable about a trio of young porcines who venture into a nondescript place described as “the woods” where each of them builds a house. Their antagonist is a predatory canine creature described as “big and bad”. Unfortunately, two of the little pigs choose substandard construction material. Their straw and stick homes are preyed upon by the wolf who is also blessed with an unusual respiratory enhancement allowing him to “blow your house down” with a series of “huffs and puffs”. The third house, made with bricks, survives the wind event and this eventually leads to the wolf’s demise. I don’t think there was ever a “big, bad wolf”. One theory is that he is a metaphor for a tornado or a named tropical storm with the obvious lesson to not use straw or sticks as building materials. I offer an alternate theory as to the wolf allegory and that is HVAC. The little pig that chose to build with sticks did not anticipate the difficulty of mounting even a small window AC unit much less installing a full central HVAC system in a flimsy structure. If the other pig used straw bales, he would increase the house’s strength and have good insulation, but the fire hazard would make any HVAC installation quite improbable. My theory is that a fire broke out and the backdraft was the wind that destroyed both structures. Bricks are fire-resistant and strong enough to support any heating and cooling system so they would make a cozy abode for the third little pig. I believe he came to an understanding with the wolf, who was probably quite charming, and they lived happily ever after.