Sentences with phrase «in a disaster zone like»

Choosing a charity because it works in a disaster zone like Haiti only gets a mean score of 4.9.

Many seismologists and disaster response experts have stressed that initial counts are always low, particularly in a disaster zone like this one — spread over hundreds of square miles of vertiginous terrain, with many communities unreachable by road at the best of times.

Not exact matches

When Stracher first visited Centralia in 1991, the town looked even more like a disaster zone.

Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 5 have found that the Chernobyl site looks less like a disaster zone and more like a nature preserve, teeming with elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, and wolves.

I try to plan out my outfits much in advance, because if I don't my room ends up looking like a disaster zone.

San Andreas actually apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.

Natalie Portman stars as a biologist who leads a quintet of women — including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny — into «the Shimmer,» a nebulous disaster area that seems like «the Zone» in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker reimagined as a Predator movie.

If you are involved in a widespread disaster, like Hurricane Harvey in the Houston area, then the chances are good that FEMA will declare your area a disaster zone.

Of course, nature runs wild in many a real disaster area, like a demilitarized zone, and New York is rich in greenery.

I asked the report's authors about another problem I've been tracking at the World Bank — what some officials there say is a persistent lack of focus on investments that can limit losses in inevitable natural disasters (like reinforcing schools in earthquake zones).

In a few moments, our calm family event became a disaster zone with police swarming about like ants.

Recommended and useful if there is any potential risk involved that may cause change in your travel plan, like travelling with kids, or seniors, travelling in unpredictable natural disaster risky areas, war zone etc..

I keep wanting to do something like this but with construction going on (um, at a snails pace) for the basement our garage is more of a disaster zone, not ahhhh welcome and come on in.