Life might throw up many things to worry about, countless disasters to tackle, but with the right support, the upshot can be a wealth of experience, a sense of survival and a dose of compassion for the experiences of others.
This powerful relief effort exemplifies community spirit at its best; it illustrates our human interconnectedness; and, it can be witnessed in the days and weeks following countless disasters the likes of last year's Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan or 2005's Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast.
Because governments of all parties have committed so many blunders over so many years – think of the poll tax, the Child Support Agency and countless IT disasters – it points to more deep-seated flaws in the British governmental system as a whole.
The hospital, sandwiched between downtown and the neighborhood where Martin Luther King Jr. was born, was the place where victims of the 1996 Olympics bombings and countless other disasters have been treated.
In the face of great environmental crises the EPA has stepped up to the plate, while averting countless other disasters.
With each disaster, countless businesses suffer damage, only to discover too late that their existing insurance fails to provide necessary coverage.
Even the prospects for financial meltdown, the collapse of the Antarctic ice cap, the mass failure of antibiotics or any of the countless other potential disasters we face cannot change the simple fact that, for now at least, the things that make us angry should be as nothing compared to what should make us give daily thanks.
Unfortunately, they also expose us to greater risks of data exposure, identity theft and countless other digital disasters.
They hold that the BP disaster, like countless others, will ultimately inspire technological advance.
There are three residents from our town who perished in the disaster and countless people were affected by it.
