calamity

Patrick Crusius worried that Texas — hot and dry and facing climate calamity — was being overrun by immigrants.

This electoral calamity seriously undermines the Democratic Party’s already-tenuous claim to represent an American majority, and virtually completes its estrangement from most of the American working class.

But Smith, who is the vice president and treasurer of the Wrightwood Fire Safe Council, saw potential for calamity, as winds were forecast to pick up.

More often than not, the perceived frontrunner is rather more circumspect about putting themselves on a potential collision course with calamity or embarrassment than the perceived challenger.

Yet calamity and heartbreak often seemed to be around the corner.