Sentences with phrase «other catastrophes major»

Save one beautiful snowstorm, our days in that hotel were bleak — walking the dog in Midtown and needing to go blocks to find even a tiny patch of earth, making the long trek to the foreign world of the Madison Square Park playground, cooking for three in the tiny kitchenette, and other catastrophes major and minor.

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The goal is to build on the company's existing two - to - three week training that workers attend before going into real world to inspect homes damaged in earthquakes, floods, and other major catastrophes.
«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.
We might survive a major pandemic or other catastrophe, but it will show up our economic and social failings and set us back centuries
Of course geological history suggests that neither run away warming nor catastrophic cooling (within the time scales of years to several decades) are anything other than highly improbable (without some catastrophe such as a major asteroid strike), but it is the job of military planners to have some contingency for all eventualities.
Prior to now, there haven't really been any major reports of catastrophes, or even other deaths, caused by self - driving cars.
With no other major events like earthquakes, widespread damage from a catastrophe is very rare:
Hurricanes are major catastrophes in South Carolina, but there are many other kinds of storms that can cause widespread damage.
Because I've experienced other major losses and catastrophes in the past, I know that to take good care of myself, I need to let myself feel the weight of the loss as it's happening.
NAR believes that the private insurance market has failed to ensure access to affordable property insurance for hurricanes, earthquakes and other major catastrophes, including floods.
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