disaster, catastrophe, diaster, tragedy, cataclysm, devastation, meltdown, crisis, carnage, floods, flashflood, armageddon, exigency, miseries, conflagration, bloodbath, tsunamis, chaos, folly, predicament, famine, misfortune, implosion, collapse, destruction, apocalypse, debacle, hardship, inundations, upheavals, turmoil, annihilation, atrocity, typhoon, mayhem, woe, eventuality, emergencies, infernos, impends, earthquake, cloudburst, peril, recklessness, discombobulation, ruination, situation, mess, nightmare, storm, anguish, sufferings, contagion, spill, strife, fiasco, deluge, blunder, pandemic, heedlessness, destabilization, irresponsibility, embarrassment, holocaust, doomsday, affliction, pestilence, embarassment, helplessness, seaquake, tumult, panic, fallout, hubris, mishap, ghastliness, tempests, profligacy, disintegration, inaction, quake, convulsion, epidemics, misjudgment, howler, fatuousness, mass hysteria, graveness, misgovernance, misadventure, wretchedness, quagmire, humiliation, foolishness, malaise, malady, menace, cyclone, despoliation, agonies, scarcities, scenario, calamities, misfortunes, catastrophes, evil, disasters, shipwreck, perils, tribulation, disappointment, disgrace, downfall

act of god, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major

plague

bad luck