Posted
9/15/2005 05:43:00 PM
by Douglas
Woo Hoo! Texas is still
Number One!- Galveston (Texas) Hurricane, 1900, estimated 8,000 deaths
- Great Okeechobee Hurricane in Florida, 1928, estimated 2,500-plus
- Johnstown, Pa., Flood, 1889, estimated 2,200-plus
- Louisiana Hurricane, 1893, 2,000-plus
- South Carolina-Georgia Hurricane, 1893, 1,000-2,000
- Great New England Hurricane, 1938, 720
- Hurricane Katrina, with the latest toll at 710.
- San Francisco Earthquake, 1906, 700
- Georgia-South Carolina Hurricane, 1881, 700
- 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.