So I reached out to the Harbor School to get students' perspectives on their favorite strategy for cutting chances of another flood-driven calamity — building oyster reefs.
Over 1,300 other coal ash piles around the country slump during these winter and spring months of freezing and flooding like calamities waiting to happen.
Other agencies have allocated their funds for more vital activity needs like saving lives due to "Ebola" virus phenomenon, flood and other calamities destructions, rebuilding essential networks for war victim communities, etc. Perhaps, they are some reasons why there was none/less allocation of seed funds for non-profit ventures by GOs or PVOs (3.92).
On the face of it, the floods seem like a calamity that was unpreventable.
North Korean officials and doctors date their problems to the "natural calamities" -- flood and droughts -- of the mid-90's.
This time around, policymakers had knowledge their counterparts didn't have in 1929; they knew they could avoid immediate financial calamity by flooding the economy with money.
Flooding is a natural calamity that destroys production of rice throughout the world especially in low-laying areas, but all economically important varieties are not tolerant to flooding.
As a serious person, Mr. Kerik was nominated to be secretary of homeland security by President Bush, and thus the nation's chief protector from terror, floods and other calamities.
Mr. Gore, addressing a hall filled with scientists in Chicago, showed a slide that illustrated a sharp spike in fires, floods and other calamities around the world and warned the audience that global warming "is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented".
But this is not because heaven sends floods to punish bad rulers, but because a virtuous ruler would have ensured that floods would not lead to calamity, by maintaining the dikes so that rivers will not overflow, for example, and by setting aside sufficient food stores to make up for any lost harvest.
