https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poème_sur_le_désastre_de_Lisbonne
Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in south-western Jamaica as the strongest storm to ever hit the Caribbean island nation in modern history, brought to mind Voltaire’s poem on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
See also: “The Dialogue between Voltaire and Rousseau on the Lisbon Earthquake: The Emergence of a Social Science View“.

