disasters
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The total damages in 2025 from disasters costing at least $1 billion, nearly four times the annual average in the 1990s, according to a Ceres study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Instead, she effectively told voters that the past four years of disasters, inefficiencies and ineptitude are still a better option than taking a chance on the City Hall equivalent of the classroom dork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
My wife says I’ve built an endless list of hypothetical disasters so I never have to make a decision.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
It is the latest in a litany of disasters to befall one of the most benighted industrial cities in Europe, repeatedly blanketed in lethal smoke from similar blazes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
She was caught in one of the deadliest disasters in the history of Boston.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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