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Floods and Hurricanes |
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"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" |
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Luke 21:25 |
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1998 the Worst Year For the World |
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| Large scale natural disasters are three times as common as they were in the 1960's, experts said yesterday as they declared 1998 the most calamitous on record... Comparing the figures for the 1960's and the past 10 years, we have established that the number of great natural catastrophes was three times larger... | ||
| (The Times: World News 12/30/98) |
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Through 1998, worldwide natural disaster losses in the 1990s have totaled more than four times the losses in the 1980s. |
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| (USAToday: 5/17/99) |
| 1999 Statistics compiled by the NOAA/NCDC |
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| "Hurricane Floyd struck the North Carolina coast in September with rainfall producing floods exceeding the expected 500-year event…These flooding rains alleviated a multi-month drought in the eastern U.S. which resulted in the driest growing season on record in most of the states from west Virginia to Maine." | ||
| "Floyd was the fifth hurricane in 3 years to affect this portion of the U.S coastline. 1999 also produced five category 4 hurricanes, the greatest number in any one year on record…In the Atlantic, another above average hurricane season, when combined with seasons beginning in 1995, produced a 5-year period with the greatest number of tropical systems on record" | ||
| "In the United States, over 200 tornadoes were observed in January, nearly 14 times the average number...Through November, the U.S. experienced the second greatest number of tornadoes on record, following 1998's record year." | ||
| (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration & National Climatic Data Center) |
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1998 a Deadly Hurricane Season |
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| The season, which started June 1, winds up Monday after racking up the deadliest toll in more than 200 years…In September, there were four hurricanes at once - Georges, Ivan, Jeanne, and Karl - for the first time since 1893… | ||
| (The Associated Press, USA TODAY, 11/29/98) |
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Venezuela disaster 'worst this century' |
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The Red Cross has said this month's devastating floods in Venezuela could be Latin America's worst natural disaster of the 20th century. George Weber, secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said as many as 50,000 people may have been killed by mudslides and flash floods on Venezuela's Caribbean coast two weeks ago. |
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| (BBC News, 12/29/99) |
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