To the south of Holland, in Zeeland, and to the north, in Frisia, this development led to catastrophic storm floods literally washing away entire regions, as the peat layer disintegrated or became detached and was carried away by the flood water.

The Napoleonic Wars were particularly disastrous.

The 1931 Central China floods or the Central China floods of 1931 were a series of floods that occurred in the Republic of China.

Of particular concern is the possibility of impact generated tsunamis, which is receiving increasing attention from all countries with extended coastal areas.

Inundations in Antananarivo, Madagascar via MiranaPriscilla on twitter

The worst floods occurred in March 2011 and displaced 21,000 people.

It ranks 20th in the list of worst floods in history.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Over the past 25 years, continuous mine infestation had created a catastrophic situation there.

A series of floods hit Queensland, Australia, beginning in December 2010.

Romania The 2006 European floods were one of the most devastating natural disaster from the History of Romania.

William of Tyre wrote that there was no battle more disastrous than this.

On a smaller scale, European countries like Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic have also suffered serious flooding.

You need to look at things from a different angle, it's not as catastrophic as you think.

Today is Heritage National State of Calamity Ka Bino Guerrero ( Kabinoguerrero) October 15, 2013

The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious biodiversity.

It is mainly associated with bad things happening to people which includes drowning, missing, flooding and many more.

The droughts of 1920 and 1921, as well as the 1921 famine, worsened the disaster still further.

This perception was the result of disastrous Italian offensives against Egypt and the performance of the army in the Greco Italian War.

The city, located on an island in a massive flood zone, suffered catastrophic damage.

India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar could experience floods followed by droughts in coming decades.

The 2009 Karachi floods () in Pakistan's financial centre, Karachi, have killed at least 26 people.

Tragic loss, even not knowing her, seeing a fellow photographer have a tragic death is horrible.

The situation in the prisons was disastrous torture, rape, ill treatment, and hellish living conditions were common.

The 2011 China floods are a series of floods from June to September 2011 that occurred in central and southern parts of the People's Republic of China.

In July 2004, heavy monsoon rains caused extensive flooding in a large area of Bangladesh.

And he said, This genetic resource, and I'll never forget the words stands between us and catastrophic starvation on a scale we cannot imagine.

The military campaign carried out against the dahalo in the bush of the great south in June and July 2012 was a disaster.

Disbursal of relief funds to help Italy rebuild after severe floods in 2011 took almost a year, owing to politicization in the Council.

Even as I speak, my own country, Guyana, a low lying coastal State, is experiencing the worst floods to have hit our country in over 100 years.

We're talking about a society that is retreating into depression and disassociation when we are potentially confronting the next great catastrophic climate shift.

Whatever portions of this ecosystem that the dams don t submerge are certain to be disrupted in potentially disastrous ways.

In the face of a disastrous humanitarian situation, widespread poverty, and persisting armed conflict, isolation from the Internet could be disastrous.

Examples of humanitarian intervention illustrate, that in some cases intervention can lead to disastrous results, as in Srebrenica and Somalia.

There exists overwhelming evidence showing that impacts of large objects with dimensions in the order of kilometres (km) have had catastrophic consequences in the past.

Meanwhile, Central Europe faced its worst flooding in decades after heavy rains swelled major rivers like the Elbe and the Danube.

And we've reached that time. We cannot afford to underestimate this problem. If we face irreversible and catastrophic consequences, we must act, and we must act decisively.

The only thing that could come to an end is the world s attention and engagement in Afghanistan, which could well lead to catastrophic consequences.

When disaster strikes the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things there is nothing to fall back on.

Thailand s worst flooding in the past half century killed more than 600 people and displaced thousands of residents and workers from their homes and factories.

In July 1997, the city was heavily affected by a flood of the River Oder, the worst flooding in post war Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Floods In 2009 October heavy floods occurred, isolating 350 villages and leaving millions homeless, which is believed to be first occurrence in 1000 years.

In this volatile environment, reverting to a confrontational relationship with Israel would be extremely dangerous, inviting the risk of another disastrous war.

If that growth is not achieved in an environmentally sustainable way, its effects on poverty and human well being will be disastrous.

Over the past 18 million years or so, this hotspot has generated a succession of violent eruptions and less violent floods of basaltic lava.