Historians and scientists have long believed that Gregory and another chronicler, Marius of Avenches, who told a similar tale, were describing a tsunami that raced across the lake, devastating part of Geneva and other communities along the shore.
Mold "is a major, devastating part of my patients' lives," says Ordog, a portly British Columbia native who says he's treated thousands of people for mold exposure at his clinic in a strip mall in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita.
Foreclosures and housing abandonment are devastating parts of Akron, Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo.
Foreclosures and housing abandonment are devastating parts of Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo and Akron, and many cities, especially Youngstown, never really emerged from the recession of 2001.
Besides devastating parts of Indonesian Sumatra, the quake set off sea surges that reached as far as the coast of Africa, where dozens of Somali fishermen perished, 6,500km (4,000 miles) from the epicentre.
Assessing the employment situation in September was complicated by the uncertain effects of the four hurricanes that struck the United States in the last two months, devastating parts of Florida and affecting businesses from Texas to the Carolinas.
A cure for sleeping sickness, a disease devastating parts of central Africa, may soon be available cheaply because it has a second, profitable use: it eliminates facial hair in women.
After raging through the Caribbean, devastating parts of Haiti, and tearing across the southeastern coast of the United States last week, Hurricane Matthew's winds and rain finally subsided on Sunday, but residents in the hardest-hit areas will continue to experience the storm's effects in the coming days.
An Ohio county chairman for the Republican Party provoked outrage after posting a Facebook message declaring that the fires devastating parts of California are "God's punishment" for the "liberal" state.
On the morning of 8 October, 2005, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck several South Asian countries, totally devastating parts of northern Pakistan.
Within hours of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastating parts of Nepal, UNICEF had delivered water purification tablets, oral rehydration salts and hygiene kits to affected communities, thanks to 30 metric tonnes of prepositioned emergency stocks kept ready in UNICEF warehouses in Nepal.
