Sentence examples for weather calamities from inspiring English sources
Last year, 700 floods, storms and other weather calamities claimed 75,000 lives worldwide and caused about $65 billion in economic damage.
Be it the darkness, ghosts, weather calamities or whatever is unknown to the man is feared the most.
But here at the margins, it seems like weather calamities are capable of reaching everyone, because experience has shown us that being unsuspecting is not an adequate defense.
Laddie John Dill's dramatic installation, now at the Conejo Valley Art Museum, defies the old notion of art as a precious and more or less immortal commodity that can weather calamities, wars and acts of God.
There is, however, one potentially major exception to this over-all trend: those who have experienced an extreme weather calamity in the past.
There is, however, one potentially major exception to this over-all trend: those who have experienced an extreme weather calamity in the past.
— While tornadoes and floods have ravaged the South and the Midwest, the remote western edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle is quietly enduring a weather calamity of its own: its longest drought on record, even worse than the Dust Bowl, when incessant winds scooped up the soil into billowing black clouds and rolled it through this town like bowling balls.
It's not so much that we should accept everything, in this tradition, as that we have no choice: the weather, calamity and beauty are coming our way whether we like it or not.
Silent in the middle of turmoil, a cube of heat and expectancy, the place felt exciting and we were visited by a fresh sense of the surrounding city... Weather, the calamities, the dead ends, the air drill poised to open the street, the dentist's drill poised ready to open the tooth..
The German insurer Munich Re estimates that the cost of weather-related calamities in North America over the past three decades amounts to thirty-four billion dollars a year.
For the past decade and a half, governments around the world have been investing in elaborate plans to "climate-proof" their cities — protecting people, businesses, and critical infrastructure against weather-related calamities.
