While technology cannot prevent an earthquake, hurricane or a volcanic eruption, it can undoubtedly provide the scientific knowledge and technical know-how, which can help in planning community response and relief operations.
The nation's president ordered a plan to prevent a recurrence of Hurricane Liza, saying that La Paz would be built a different way.
Corps of Engineers officials in New York also said they were working to prevent a repeat of the problems after Hurricane Katrina.
" Connecticut, which did not experience a gas shortage, established a task force before the hurricane arrived that took steps to prevent a gas shortage.
Despite great efforts to prevent fatalities, Hurricane Sandy has taken 48 lives so far.
Approving funding to prevent hurricane damage means acknowledging that there is a continuing danger from hurricanes and that it is getting worse, and that means acknowledging that the funding is not just part of some liberal global-warming conspiracy.
These have ranged from preventing a disco from opening in the neighborhood to volunteering with the local police precinct and raising money for Hurricane Katrina victims.
Sheriff Lee drew notoriety shortly after the hurricane when some of his deputies helped prevent hurricane evacuees, most of them black, from crossing the Crescent City Connection bridge into Jefferson Parish.
Marcus Georges-Hunt followed his own miss for the winning tip-in at the buzzer, and visiting Georgia Tech rallied past No. 6 Miami, 71-69, to prevent the Hurricanes from clinching the outright Atlantic Coast Conference title.
Scientists suspect that the blocking event over Greenland, potentially linked to the record low Arctic ice that summer, prevented the hurricane veering north-east out into the Atlantic like most storms.
