You home is your sanctuary, but your sanctuary is vulnerable to attack and random acts of disaster if you're not careful.
Somehow, even acts of heroics cause a bit of disaster.
That arresting scene capped off the final act of the disaster movie "Sharknado," which premièred on the Syfy network and is about just what it sounds like it would be about.
Still, though even if these three incidents are just signaling the start of yet another normal flu season and not serving as the first act of a disaster movie, it doesn't help that most tray tables on airplanes have more germs than the bathrooms.
Any act of God, natural disaster, or unanticipated large-scale event that derails our plans reminds us that the universe is so much bigger than we make it out to be as we busily scurry about our daily lives.
A federal statute cited by officials last week as the legal basis for the program gives the National Operations Center the authority "to provide situational awareness" for officials "in the event of a natural disaster, act of terrorism or other man-made disaster" and to "ensure that critical terrorism and disaster-related information reaches government decision makers".
Except to the extent necessary for testing the public alert and warning system, the public alert and warning system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.
By law, FEMA's WEA system prohibits the agency (and, by extension, Trump) from sending any message "that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety".
The 2015 law authorizing the WEA system stipulates that it "shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety".
This year, however, the city has so far been spared any large-scale disaster, act of God, major mechanical breakdown, riveting murder case or police controversy.
