Disaster strikes all the time without warning or provocation. It doesn't care who you are, where you live or what you do for a living. Disasters are equally destructive to everyone, as can be seen in these recent news articles...

LOS ANGELES - A bonfire built by a group of young adults caused a weekend wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion-dollar mansions, and injured more than two dozen people, authorities said Tuesday.

An anonymous tip led to the discovery that 10 college students had gathered for a late night hangout at an abandoned property where the fire originated, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said. He declined to say which college the students attended. Read the entire story at MSNBC.

Flooding is a normal sign of spring for many communities along the Mississippi River, but this year, flooding has come earlier than normal.
"This would be a normal year, except for two factors," said John Simon, director of the Agency of Adams County (Ill.) Emergency Management. "One: Two levies that were breached last year have not been completely restored, and two: everybody, including myself, is just a little bit gun shy and thinking, 'here we go again.'" Read the entire story atDisasternews.net.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A thick glaze of ice brought down power lines and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and business, closed schools and canceled flights Tuesday as a major storm blasted the nation's midsection. At least 24 deaths had been blamed on the storm system since the waves of sleet and freezing rain started during the weekend.
The power outage was the worst ever in Oklahoma, with nearly 600,000 homes and businesses without electricity Tuesday. Nearly 350,000 other customers were affected by outages in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois.
Read the entire story atUSA Today.