Those homeowners will be forced to fall back on some combination of disaster relief, loans and savings.
Though he admits it is a long shot, Gov. George E. Pataki has asked the Bush administration to offer a combination of disaster aid, tax-free bonds, supplements for city and state budgets, and transportation grants that total $54 billion.
The combination of disaster modeling and these modified bonds has already been employed by coastal municipalities in the U.S., with the construction of flood walls around Hoboken, New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virginia.
TODAY'S crisis thus emerged from a combination of disasters operating in free markets, but wreaking ruin as they developed.
A21 In the wreckage left by the devastating one-two punch of Hurricanes Charley and Frances, engineers, researchers and others are finding that this combination of disasters may do what no single storm has: cause everyone along the United States' southern and eastern coasts to toughen their building codes.
"In Haiti, it's the back-to-back accumulation and combination of disasters that puts pressure on the government and the people," said Thomas Pitaud, chief technical advisor to the government on national disaster risk management systems.
Search terms included combinations of "disaster," "natural disaster," "tornado," "hurricane," "earthquake," "tsunami," and "flood" with "fungal infection," "fungal disease," "fungus," or "mold".
While all countries experience occasional streaks of bad luck and unfortunate confluences of events, Britain has had a worse run than usual lately -- a combination of natural disasters and human bungling that has left many subject to malaise as they wonder what dreadful thing might befall them next.
O'Neill did what he could to help Carter without betraying his own fundamental beliefs, but the relatively modest accomplishments of the Carter administration were not enough to offset a calamitous combination of political disasters, including double-digit inflation and interest rates, increased unemployment and the inability to orchestrate a return of the hostages from Iran.
With this matrix, the stakeholders were questioned on each combination of possible disaster-generating hazards in the region and asked the guiding questions listed above.
Full report [PDF] Summary report [PDF] Regional report[PDF] Asia and the Pacific map[PDF] The Asia-Pacific region has an emergency profile characterized by a combination of natural disasters and civil/political unrest with pockets of conflict situations.
