Which is why the construction of a movable barrier across the entrances to the lagoon seems to many people the obvious way of averting calamity.
Given the quantity of medical trouble that can be ascribed to nothing but rotten luck, you'd think that calamity with obvious cause would be a veritable pleasure for health authorities to forestall.
Mr Bush's daily schedule is a secret, for obvious reasons; but whenever a calamity throws light on his routine he is invariably exercising.
Today, obvious mistakes have led to a financial calamity with very devastating effects, and even greater aftershocks are likely coming.
Sheehan has been touched deeply by the tragedy on so many levels, not just the obvious overwhelming hurt of having had her community struck by calamity.
The first, tentative analysis seemed painfully obvious: the Japanese economy, already weak, perhaps already in a recession before calamity struck, will become even weaker.
Among pictures taken in the Northeast by Lange, Collier, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee and others are no images of calamity: no lynchings, riots or crime scenes and few portrayals of obvious economic privation or social oppression.
Since the Taken concept relies on calamities befalling the family of retired CIA operative Bryan Mills, it's not an obvious premise to yield sequels, and Neeson assures us that no more are planned.
When it was revealed that Ubisoft's new DRM scheme would require you to be online at all times, and if disconnected for any reason would boot you out of the game, people immediately asked the obvious question: "Well, what if your DRM servers go down?" Ubisoft was not forthcoming, unless this little calamity is their roguish idea of an answer.
Emissions from deforestation and forest degradation are obvious, but current forests can also be unstable and turn into sources, e.g. when affected by calamities, potential saturation effects (e.g. ageing forests with smaller annual sequestration rates than before), and a rather slow responding ability.
