Sentence examples for calamitous hurricane from inspiring English sources

An official explains that the donation of US corn-soy blend was made by WFP last year with emergency USAid funding in advance of Haiti's generally calamitous hurricane season.

This summer, while excavations continue at the site with dozens of field-school students, maritime teams will begin to look for the other ships destroyed during the calamitous hurricane of September, 1559.

He doesn't forecast the likelihood that calamitous weather events like Hurricane Sandy will cause far greater damage when the oceans have risen closer to the level of the cities, overwhelming roads, sewers, underground trains, and water systems.

One of the less calamitous pieces of damage done by Hurricane Sandy was this: It knocked the facade off a wall on South Street just north of Broad Street near the East River, revealing a time capsule of hand-carved 1970s graffiti that included ancient phone numbers and declarations of love.

Even before the tsunami, this past year — in which there were four big hurricanes in Florida, a calamitous Asian typhoon, and another Japanese earthquake — was the most expensive in history for insurers.

He painted a bleak picture of Earth's future, warning that rising levels of carbon dioxide could have calamitous effects, such as increased intensity of hurricanes, more intense droughts, and the drowning of coastal cities.

Based on our understanding of past hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes, and other calamitous events in American history, we are developing a list of what we'll be watching for in Sandy's aftermath.

When Hurricane Sandy hit, the new headquarters endured calamitous losses, including vintage musical instruments, all financial records and an estimated 60 to 70 percent of its CD stock.

Not calamitous or terminal.

The result was calamitous.

Calamitous is probably better.