Top 10 Natural Disasters

 
Natural disasters are the stuff that fear is made of. We can prepare for them, but we can't prevent them; we can anticipate them, but we can't accurately predict them. (If we could, they wouldn't be much of a problem.)

Natural disasters put us in our place on a fairly regular basis, letting us know that the planet, and not humanity, is in charge.

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