Natural disasters aren’t known for their convenience. They don’t cater to our schedules; instead they often strike with little to no warning. They can defy predictions and deviate from historic patterns. Disasters — like the damage they cause — are pure...
Over the past 20 years, 7,000 natural disasters have killed 1.35 million worldwide. Around 90% of those deaths occurred in lesser developed countries which lack the resources to protect vulnerable populations from flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters....
In the aftermath of virtually any major disaster, the internet overflows with haunting images of what were, only days before, whole communities. Homes are gone; in their place, shattered debris sits strewn across the streets. Newsreels flash with the hunched profiles...
Winds that shred houses to splinters, floods that destroy a city, clouds of crop-choking dust that circulate for years, tremors that topple skyscrapers and split the earth miles deep: these events–and the thousands of lives torn apart in their wake—have been...
Just last year, in late August of 2017, Hurricane Harvey tore through the Houston metropolitan area. Its winds ripped apart anything in its path not bolted to the ground, then drenched what was left in sheet after solid sheet of pouring rain. Roads overflowed and...
