The most severe conditions are in Unity state, where a team of food security experts found a risk of "widespread catastrophe" during a visit late last year.
Provision of housing, food, clothing, law enforcement, schools, jobs, social welfare, and control of infectious disease were unexplored issues in the care of huge populations made homeless by widespread catastrophe.
For six years Britain has arguably been at the mercy of a single figure, the historic low interest rates that have been in part the bank's penance, and probably all that stood between the nation and widespread social catastrophe.
There was no estimate of the ice storm's damage, but Governor Huckabee's press aide, Rex Nelson, called it "the most widespread natural catastrophe in Arkansas history," adding: "We're looking at tens of millions of dollars in losses right now, to our timber and farming industries, to our infrastructure and power grid.
With so few examples it is impossible to tell whether VCJD will turn out to be a trickling epidemic with a few cases every year which exhausts itself over a decade, or a widespread, long-lasting catastrophe.
In Britain, as elsewhere, there has been a widespread sense of impending catastrophe during Trump's first week as President.
European leaders warned on Tuesday that youth unemployment – which exceeds 50% in some countries – could lead to a continent-wide catastrophe and widespread social unrest aimed at member state governments.
Paul Tidball, chairman of the Prison Governors Association, recently observed: "For prisons to become less effective in reducing offending is tragic enough, and against the interests of our society and the taxpayer, but the potential catastrophe of widespread disorder resulting from foolhardy cuts takes the debate to another level".
Paul Tidball, governor of the Prison Governors Assocation, recently said: "For prisons to become less effective in reducing offending is tragic enough, and against the interests of society and the taxpayer, but the potential catastrophe of widespread disorder resulting from foolhardy cuts takes the debate to another level".
The catastrophe spurred widespread concern about health risks associated with consumption of spill-related contaminated seafood.
The Baltimore shooting of Freddie Gray calamity revealed how poorly managed catastrophes produced widespread, deep pocket losses.
