Now, when emergencies or disasters strike, smartphone apps can offer detailed assistance.
Without these rules, they cannot really be in the driver's seat when disasters strike.
Also, most airlines and hotels typically waive restrictions and fees on rebooking when natural disasters strike.
That vote will be remembered in this region when natural disasters strike areas largely represented by Republicans.
Although nature decides when and where disasters strike, it is still humans who determine how much suffering they inflict.
Buses tip into ravines, natural disasters strike and lurid crimes occur, but rarely is news of any of this carried.
Our government must keep its promise to fund simple risk-reduction measures that can protect children when disasters strike.
And it has scored points with much of the population for being the face of rescue whenever large-scale disasters strike.
Lack of knowledge of social infrastructure like schools and hospitals makes it more costly when natural disasters strike, setting back recovery efforts, sometimes by months.
When disasters strike we may have an immediate empathic response, but underneath we are often conditioned to believe that "normal" is where we all should be.
On the contrary, when natural disasters strike, it is useful to have neighbours who know how to stormproof a house and have bandages to spare.
