Like many of you, I have been watching the news of the massive flooding in Iowa and Indiana with concern. While the human and economic repercussions of this latest natural disaster are only now starting to become evident ($3Billion in crop losses alone), this is just the latest in a string of disasters which have been occurring and let’s face it - will continue to occur all around the world.

This week there are also massive fires raging in California, last week it was a 7+ magnatude earthquake in Japan which collapsed a mountain, the week before that it was torrential rains in China which caused massive flooding and infrastructure damage, the week before that an estimated 60,000 people were killed in an earthquake in China, and fires were raging in Florida. Shall I go on?

If I were to make a list of every disaster that has occurred, oh…even if just back to Hurricane Katrina or the Tsunami in 2004, the list of losses and deaths would be simply staggering. This got me thinking…

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