President Bush knew it—or something like it—was coming. President Obama knew it—or something like it—was coming, too. Neither administration properly prepared the nation to respond.
Trump misstated in saying that COVID-19 “came out of nowhere”
Big, cataclysmic events seldom come out of nowhere. Though, granted, they occasionally do. Particularly when the earth acts unexpectedly.
On March 27, 1964, the Great Alaskan Earthquake, also known as the Good Friday Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.2 megathrust quake; the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history. Second most powerful in world history. Unexpected.