Sentence examples for calamitous storm from inspiring English sources

Just two examples are severe and recurring seismic activity in Istanbul and the inevitability of a calamitous storm surge in New York City.

Zukor counsels that "our worst-case scenario is also the most likely one," and after a calamitous storm hits New York City his prognostications acquire near-mythic renown.

After last summer's devastating floods in Baton Rouge, climatologists estimated that the changing environment had probably doubled the likelihood that a calamitous storm would strike in a particular year.

Another calamitous storm, you see, would remind people how ineptly George Bush dealt with Hurricane Katrina three years ago and spur them to vote Democratic.The first day of the convention, September 1st, was all but cancelled though, in the end, the hurricane was less destructive than had been feared (see article).

The world is growing accustomed to seeing images of devastation, from earthquakes or calamitous storms, as they unfold.

Weathering an even more calamitous global storm now, Indonesia has managed relatively well — so far.

In one affecting passage, she recalls how her foster mother went into premature labor during a calamitous winter storm.

The observations of these CMEs will help scientists better model space weather and predict potentially calamitous solar storms.

That level raises the likelihood of more calamitous consequences, including intensified storm and drought cycles, wider extinction of species and perhaps the eventual freeing of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which could raise sea levels a century or two from now 15 feet or more, inundating coasts where most human settlements are concentrated.

But the Red Storm recovered from the calamitous collapse and finally finished the Huskies, 85-83, in overtime, thanks to a couple of opportunistic putbacks by Eric King and the steady hand of Marcus Hatten, who finished with a career-high 34 points, 6 of them in overtime.

The "epiphany", if I may call it that, seemed to be best understood as an explosion, a calamitous natural process like an earthquake or storm, leaving behind it what is known in science fiction as a "rent in the fabric of space-time".