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May 23, 2014 Leave a Comment

Last Century’s Worst Disasters

We see that Popular Mechanics has removed this feature from their website.  Too, bad.  These were a series of good articles.  — September, 2015.

from Popular Mechanics Magazine.

1906: San Francisco Earthquake Fire

1910: The Big Burn

1918: Spanish Flu Pandemic

1925: Tri-State Tornado

1938: The New England Hurricane

1964: The Great Alaskan Earthquake

1974: Super Tornado Outbreak

1980: Mount St. Helens Eruption

1993: Storm of the Century

2005: Hurricane Katrina

Reprinted from Jack Le Moine’s Blog, July 31, 2007

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