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Biblical destruction from above

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 Maybe it's a bit of a curious fascination, but I find it interesting all the different ways we could face disaster. When I gave a general preparedness class one of my opening bits was a list of some of the human and natural disasters that can create an emergency situation. Then I jumped from the local and regional disasters to civilization-ending. This article popped up in my news feed  A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom  and it's republished from The Conversation. Here's the theorized description of how that Middle Eastern city met its end: "As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding toward them at about 38,000 mph (61,000 kph). "Flashing through the atmosphere, the rock exploded in a massive fireball about 2.5 miles (