But this is rarely true, be it earthquake, flood, ice, wildfire, tornado or hurricane.
It will detect oil spills at sea and forest destruction on land: the aim is to deliver warnings of flood, ice and fire within an hour.
At the end of each catastrophic flood, ice masses grounded, forming a thick stagnant dead-ice body.
They've created what might be called the Seven Horsemen of the Multiplex: aliens, pandemics, floods, ice, comets and other interplanetary flotsam, nuclear war, and zombies.
As flooding, ice storms and hurricanes start making people very anxious, the issue of resilience has to reach a much wider audience.
"This technology is proving invaluable at our Prudhoe Bay site, where floods, ice break-ups and ice floes constantly alter the topography, making other monitoring methods difficult, costly and time-consuming," says a BP spokesperson.
Never ask a wireless engineer working on the NYC subway system "What can go wrong?" Flooding, ice, brake dust, and power outages relentlessly attack the network components.
Weather around the country turned extreme, and severe flooding, ice storms and tornados raged from California to Florida.
We have witnessed a frightening series of droughts, forest fires, floods, ice melts, heat waves and other extreme weather events.
From its beginning, the port consisted of hastily built docks built every spring and destroyed every winter by erosion, flooding, ice, and tidal action.
"This study shows that we can expect much larger areas of flooded ice in the future," Scambos said, noting that variables like snowfall can complicate projections.
