The three major hurricanes that made landfall on U.S. soil — along with wildfires and other natural disasters — ravaged the country and its territories in 2017, affecting nearly 50 million Americans and U.S. nationals spread across the South, West and Caribbean.
Internally, natural disasters ravaged the North's economy.
As you drive through Eastern Kentucky, it is hard not to notice the huge chunks of mountains that appear to be missing, as if some awful disaster had ravaged their crests and contours.
They talk about managing risk and the downside protection of diversification, but they rarely plan for the type of broad-based disaster that ravaged the markets in the past year.
"The CPI was mainly driven up by factors including the severe snow disaster that ravaged more than half of the country's areas and food price hikes during the Spring Festival, Chinaa Daily quoted Yao Jingyuan, the chief economist of the NBS, as saying.
Nuclear disaster has ravaged the world and there's lots of wandering in barren landscapes and fighting violent foes.
The Union Carbide plant in Bhopal is opening its doors to the public for seven days to commemorate the 25-year anniversary of the disaster it ravaged on thousands and thousands of people.
A near-record 16 billion-dollar weather disasters have ravaged the nation.
While his agency is facing harsh criticism, Patrick Rhode, FEMA's deputy director, defended its performance as "probably one of the most efficient and effective responses in the country's history". He recalled that after Mr. Brown, his boss, returned from his tsunami tour, he asked if the United States was better prepared for a disaster than the ravaged countries he had visited.
Listening to news reports Tuesday about the widespread destruction from Hurricane Sandy, Scott Holmquist first reacted with shock at the disaster that had ravaged cities throughout the east coast.
Staff members deliver medical treatment to people affected by wars and natural disasters, to communities ravaged by epidemics and those that otherwise simply would not have access to medical services.
