Now, close to 11 years after Hurricane Katrina, floods in Baton Rouge, Louisiana are taking lives and uprooting people in an area known to have dealt with devastating struggle--a possible norm for many in the area due to climate change and the rising sea waters.
Children miss their "departed" parents; parents of missing children are left devastated, struggling to move on.
His collection of short stories published in 1953, El trueno ebtre las hojas, set the stage for Hijo de hombre and Yo, el Supremo with its dark portrayal of devastating political struggle and oppression.
PARIS, July 6 - Defeated and devastated, France struggled to absorb the news on Wednesday that despite the odds in its favor, it had lost out to London.
Indiana is one of the worst offenders, spewing out 4% of America's carbon emissions in 2007 though it is home to only 2% of its population.The fear is that a cap-and-trade bill may expand a promising new sector but devastate a struggling, larger one.
That could be devastating for those struggling to survive on Social Security benefits, which will increase much more slowly.
He said: "The money is urgently needed by poor people struggling with devastating cyclones, flooding and rising sea levels.
Many military professionals, meanwhile, describe crushing schedules with 10 or more patients a day, most struggling with devastating trauma or mutilated bodies that are the product of war and the highly advanced care that kept them alive.
I can only sit by, devastated, watching her struggle and suffer.
We're still waiting on Mike Hosking's devastating take, though he might struggle to best John Armstrong's take: Waitangi Day is "the annual parade of the pathetic" and "the (largely silent) majority has never had a say when it comes to [the day's] arrangements".
