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All tagged natural disaster

Apr 6
Apr 6 Mother Nature

The floor thrusts towards the ceiling. Walls splinter and pieces of plaster crumble around us.

Nov 12
Nov 12 The Flood

The rain had been incessant and biblical for days and weeks and nearing a month.