Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

The play's device is to explore society's obsession with disaster and violence through the eyes of a group of artist's models who remain part of someone else's painting rather than just be themselves.

Existing americium is concentrated in the areas used for the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1945 and 1980, as well as at the sites of nuclear incidents, such as the Chernobyl disaster.

Wetumpka is the home of " Alabama's greatest natural disaster.

It is ' Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways '.

* The game Brink is set on a futuristic arcology to preserve humanity after a natural flooding disaster.

This in turn forms the background to verses 1: 8-16, in which Micah warns the towns of the coming disaster ( Lachish is singled out for special mention, accused of the corrupt practices of both Samaria and Jerusalem ).

The CDC thus only recommends vaccination for: 1 ) All laboratory and field personnel who are working with Y. pestis organisms resistant to antimicrobials, 2 ) People engaged in aerosol experiments with Y. pestis and 3 ) People engaged in field operations in areas with enzootic plague where preventing exposure is not possible ( such as some disaster areas ).

A team may self-activate ( self-deploy ) when their own neighborhood is affected by disaster.

This is important during a disaster response because not all members of a regular team may be available to respond.

Further, it is recommended that the alternate location be placed where the same disaster would not affect both locations.

As he would later relate, " So I called up Bart and said, ' Bart, the film is a disaster.

The word disaster is derived from Middle French désastre and that from Old Italian disastro, which in turn comes from the Greek pejorative prefix δυσ -, ( dus -) " bad " + ἀστήρ ( aster ), " star ".

A natural disaster is a consequence when a natural hazard affects humans and / or the built environment.

* 1953 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.

In many cases such mirroring is done geographically remotely, in a different storage array, to handle also recovery from disasters ( see disaster recovery above ).

Indeed, Robert Spitzer, a past editor and leading proponent of scientific impartiality in the DSM, conceded that a significant reason that certain diagnoses ( the paraphilias ) would not, in his opinion, be removed from the DSM is because " it would be a public relations disaster for psychiatry ".

In many cases such mirroring is done geographically remotely, in a different storage array, to handle also recovery from disasters ( see disaster recovery above ).

The Week of Compassion is the disaster relief and Third World development agency.

After a disaster, the fear is re-channeled in a climate of euphoria based on patriotism.

Mike is desperate for any sort of publicity he can get, but his public appearances as a constant source of amusement for the rest of the Frontline team, as they typically end in disaster.

He is Mike's major antagonist on the team, often baiting him about sensitive topics, such as the supposedly anti-Semitic golf club of which Mike is a member ( A Hole in the Heart ), or whenever Mike's public appearances end in disaster.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

* 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A $ 2. 3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

The town has been subject to several orders of natural disaster: floods and mudslides in 1994 and 2008, and landslides in 1996 and 1999.

This natural disaster also led to the bankruptcy of a heavily invested insurance company called Doyle.

Many constitutions contain provisions to curtail freedoms and criminalize otherwise tolerated behaviors under a state of emergency in the event of war, natural disaster or civil unrest.

The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users.

Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disaster s in United States history

Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95 percent of all deaths caused by disasters occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural disasters are 20 times greater ( as a percentage of GDP ) in developing countries than in industrialized countries .< ref > Luis Flores Ballesteros.

A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability.

With the tropical climate and unstable land forms, coupled with deforestation, unplanned growth proliferation, non-engineered constructions which make the disaster-prone areas more vulnerable, tardy communication, poor or no budgetary allocation for disaster prevention, developing countries suffer more or less chronically by natural disasters.

* 2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.

The post-war years were a time of hardship, natural disaster and mass emigration, followed by rebuilding, large-scale public works programmes ( especially the Delta Works ), economic recovery, European integration and the gradual introduction of a welfare state.

In 1749 the city of Port-au-Prince was established on the West coast, which in 1770 took over as the capital of the colony from Cap-Français, however that same year the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city killing 200 people immediately, and 30, 000 later from famine and disease brought on by the natural disaster.

A fund investing in insurance products, for example, may routinely side pocket securities linked to natural disasters following the occurrence of such a disaster.

Whether the disaster is natural or man-made, it affects normal life and so business.

* Supplemental natural disaster insurance covers specified expenses after a natural disaster renders the policyholder's home uninhabitable.