| You cannot run a national grid on wind turbines, it would be an economic catastrophe. |
| The department of local disaster relief blamed the damaging natural catastrophe on continuous rain in the area in recent days. |
| The enemy in this case is our imaginations, avid for the spectacle of catastrophe. |
| Maybe we'll just wait for the catastrophe and anyway, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. |
| Could some of the individuals brought down in this catastrophe have had astrological foreknowledge? |
| After such a demoralizing outing, it would have taken a miracle to avert a catastrophe. |
