Hurricane Katrina (23 30 August 2005) struck low-lying coastal plains particularly vulnerable to storm surge flooding.
But after winning his 2012 race in his re-drawn district by just two percentage points to a Democratic challenger, widely seen as weak, Coffman went from being considered plain-old vulnerable to a downright sitting duck by Democrats.
Over the centuries, many other dynasties faced the same basic problem as the Qin: the wide-open frontier of the northern plains made them vulnerable to the nomadic Mongol and Turkic tribes that inhabited these lands.
Beginning around 1987, nearly all of those farms began to be replaced with industrial swine "feeding operations" producing approximately 10,000,000 hogs in factory-style confinement facilities - primarily in North Carolina's vulnerable coastal plain.
A Llanos (plains) port, it is vulnerable to flooding during the rainy season, despite its great distance from the sea, because it has an elevation of only 200 feet (60 metres).
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In New Jersey, which environmentalists say is one of the most active states in coordinating climate-change policies, the state government has begun an aggressive program of buying out property owners whose homes or businesses are in vulnerable flood plains.
Both the dusky hopping mouse and the plains mouse are considered vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the mulgara is listed as endangered in South Australia.
They are perched high on a ridge with a commanding view of the dusty Cambodian plains but are highly vulnerable to fire from Thai positions just a few hundred metres away.
The Lombardy plain, full of rich and vulnerable cities, was another obvious battleground.
