However, you know smaller incidents have occurred which probably aren't as devastating as say, earthquakes which have happened in places around the world, you know in New Orleans the flooding, hurricanes.
This isn't a new development, either – the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, was first formed in 1933 as a response to the ravages of the Great Depression.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service says it's expected to weaken as it moves toward Georgia and North Carolina, but it's already left behind a considerable amount of damage.
And we hope you will, Purdue's guilty plea will send a message that the Department of Justice will not allow big pharma and big tech to engage in illegal conduct that corrupts the doctor-patient relationship.
The confidence trick at the heart of the social order was violently laid bare: it turns out that if sufficient numbers of criminals want to create havoc on the streets, they can.