...More than 20,000 people died as a result of a massive earthquake and subsequent enormous tsunami, but those two natural disasters were not what captured the most attention in the media.The media fixated on "experts" volunteering doomsday scenarios...

...clubhouse TV as the Red Sox prepared for their game at the Chicago White Sox."It's a tragedy when you see a natural disaster like that take place, so many innocent people that are certainly affected, if not directly by injury or possibly...

National Guard teams from four states were hosted by Savannah River Site this week for terrorism response and natural disaster assistance training."Our mission is to advise, assist, identify and assess any situation our first responders...

...suffer have nothing or little to do with the faith we hold.For us, sufferings and hardships just happen because of natural disasters or accidents or medical problems which come upon us like ambushes in the night. They just happen for no good reason...

...produced in Richmond County. He told the graduates their training would be vital in the event of severe weather, natural disasters or terrorist attacks."We could see where government became overwhelmed and in those types of cases we need citizens...

...grand scheme of things, the aftermath of the holiday season is pretty small potatoes. We aren't dealing with a natural disaster. We aren't dealing with a profound emotional meltdown. We certainly aren't dealing with the Mayan apocalypse...

...government," said Massey, R-Edgefield. "Usually, when we do oversight, it's in response to a scandal or natural disaster."Massey was among senators railing against Cabinet agencies that blew through their budgets under Sanford and...

...phones as "a critical part of the communications infrastructure for the country." He said they can work during natural disasters as long as the local telephone company switch is above water.More than a decade ago, it wasn't uncommon to see...

...John, now deceased, often traveled doing mission work and would cook meals for those working on the scene of natural disasters such as 1992's Hurricane Andrew. "I think Mom and Daddy hit about all of them," Kelley's son said. After...

...used shoes to donate to Soles4Souls, a nonprofit based in Nashville, Tenn., that provides shoes to victims of natural disasters and the impoverished in the United States and abroad.Any old shoes will do.According to the Soles4Souls Web site...