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Thursday, September 15, 2005


Woo Hoo! Texas is still Number One!
  1. Galveston (Texas) Hurricane, 1900, estimated 8,000 deaths
  2. Great Okeechobee Hurricane in Florida, 1928, estimated 2,500-plus
  3. Johnstown, Pa., Flood, 1889, estimated 2,200-plus
  4. Louisiana Hurricane, 1893, 2,000-plus
  5. South Carolina-Georgia Hurricane, 1893, 1,000-2,000
  6. Great New England Hurricane, 1938, 720
  7. Hurricane Katrina, with the latest toll at 710.
  8. San Francisco Earthquake, 1906, 700
  9. Georgia-South Carolina Hurricane, 1881, 700
  10. Tri-State Tornado in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, 1925, 695
Yet only six of those happened in the 20th century. Is that significant? I think so.



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