I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.
Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.
We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.
At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.
There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
This was the most anticipated natural disaster in history.
The reference was to the New Orleans Katrina Crisis of 2005.
My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
During my time in Pakistan, I was asked to lead an expedition to Azad Kashmir following a devastating earthquake in 2005 that claimed the lives of 80,000 people.
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
I've covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn't on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there.
Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.