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{i} disaster
An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment
{v} to blast, afflict, injure, hurt
a manifestation of an interaction between extreme physical or natural phenomena and a vulnerable human group that results in general disruption and destruction, loss of life and livelihood and injury (Tilling, Volcanic Hazards, fig 1 1, p 3)
A calamity caused by accident, fire, explosion, or technical failure, or by the forces of nature that has resulted in serious harm to the health, safety or welfare of people, or in widespread damage to property (as defined in the Emergency Program Act)
Disaster is something which has very bad consequences for you. The government brought itself to the brink of fiscal disaster = catastrophe
A halfpipe lip trick where one lands with the coping perpendicular to the snowboard Originated in skateboarding when skaters would land on the coping and allow their skateboard trucks (axle) to hang-up With no trucks it's really not a disaster, but we'll call it that anyway
1 fast sudden change 2 specific changes of nature in earth
An unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction and human suffering Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins Wars and civil disturbances that destroy homelands and displace people are included among the causes of disasters Other causes can be: building collapse, blizzard, drought, epidemic, earthquake, explosion, fire, flood, hazardous material or transportation incident (such as a chemical spill), hurricane, nuclear incident, tornado, or volcano FEMA: Disaster Assistance Programs
literally "bad stars"; particularly suitable in reference to a major asteroid impact
Any event that creates an inability on an organizations part to provide critical business functions for some predetermined period of time SIMILAR TERMS: Business Interruption; Outage; Catastrophe
To blast by the influence of a baleful star
Any real or anticipated occurrence which endangers the lies, safety, welfare and well-being of some or all of the people and cannot be brought under control by the use of all regular Municipal Government services and resources
Generally associated with grinding You do a disaster when you jump high (possibly doing a grab), land and grind
Preparedness
Major disturbances in the life of a community or population which occur sufficiently often to leave their record in the 'genetic memory' of the population (cf Catastrophe)
To bring harm upon; to injure
emphasis If you refer to something as a disaster, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely bad or unacceptable. The whole production was just a disaster! = catastrophe
An unexpected occurance inflicting widespread destruction and distress and having long-term adverse effects on agency operations Each agency defines what a long-term adverse effect is in relation to its most critical program
Some condition that brings down all Passport network servers at a domain authority (for example, a large-scale power failure) Such a disaster might prevent access to certain parts of your site or strand users at a "404" page when they are trying to reach the Login server You may wish to switch Passport Manager to stand-alone mode in case of such a disaster
{i} catastrophe, misfortune, calamity
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