The phrase "an ongoing disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that is continuously worsening or has not yet been resolved.
Example: "The environmental crisis has become an ongoing disaster, affecting countless communities and ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a continuous catastrophe" or "a persistent calamity".
The last six years of my father's life were an ongoing disaster.
An earlier attempt to attract foreign capital through special B-shares sold on the mainland is an ongoing disaster.
In a way, capitalism is an ongoing disaster that anticapitalism alleviates, like a mother cleaning up after her child's messes.
The United merger is a grand example of a consumer sinkhole — a merger that proves to be not just a onetime event but an ongoing disaster for consumers (and shareholders) who suffer for years after.
"There is an ongoing disaster for these airline workers who were displaced by the events of 9/11," said Bill Kornblum, a City University sociology professor and the main author of the report.
But she considers poverty and lack of resources to be an ongoing disaster in Nepal, and she decided that there was no reason to neglect Dolpo, which is as materially poor as it is culturally rich.
The flood disaster management system (FDMS) is a platform developed to provide ongoing disaster reduction capabilities that cover the entire process of flood management.
As a start, though it's been easy to forget in these years, other countries are affected by the ongoing disaster of a war in Afghanistan.
If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.
Everything about the speech that sparkled with tactical cleverness in terms of domestic politics contributed to an ongoing strategic disaster around the world.
