The phrase "a summer of devastating" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to follow "devastating." It can be used in a context where you want to describe a summer characterized by devastating events or experiences, but it needs to be completed for clarity.
Example: "It was a summer of devastating losses for the community after the natural disaster struck."
Alternatives: "a summer of destruction" or "a summer of calamity."
Chicago fire of 1871, also called Great Chicago Fire, conflagration that began on October 8, 1871, and burned until early October 10, devastating an expansive swath of the city of Chicago.
In 1941 much of Huaraz was buried by an avalanche, and in May 1970 a devastating earthquake virtually leveled the entire city, killing about 10,000 residents.
Just as the deer supply began to dwindle, a drought hit in the 1100s, devastating crops.
After a new study failed to find nanodiamonds, impact experts are flatly rejecting outsiders' claims that an impact 12,900 years ago devastated the megafauna.
In 1956, a devastating spring freeze — the worst in two centuries — killed most of the olive trees, including ones that, hundreds of years old, had seemed capable of living through every adversity.
A flood in 1997 devastated Grand Forks, N.D., about an hour north of here, but that city is now fortified by a series of flood walls.
One patron that night, Marco, an agent of the financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, had worked as a first responder when an earthquake in April 2009 devastated the ancient town of L'Aquila.
A hurricane in 2000 devastated the country's infrastructure and displaced tens of thousands of Belizeans.
Humayun Khan, was killed by a suicide bomber in 2004, devastated Trump by holding up a pocket Constitution while he blasted the Republican nominee at the Democratic National Convention. .
St. Helens, Washington, U.S. 8,363 2,549 1831 A gigantic eruption in 1980 devastated 550 square km (210 square miles) of mountain terrain and spread ash over Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
Beginning in 1984, an epidemic (unrecognized until 1988) devastated the western part of Upper Nile state, ultimately causing ≈100,000 deaths in a population of 280,000 over a 10-year period (3 ).
