"This Has Been The Worst Year For Natural Disasters In U.S. History"

[Yavin4]

There has been a natural disaster that has caused at least a billion dollars of damage inside the United States every single month so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have been 10 major disasters in the United States this year. On average, usually there are only about 3 major disasters a year. At this point, disasters are happening inside the United States so frequently that there seems to be no gap between them. We just seem to go from one major disaster to the next. Last year, FEMA declared an all-time record of 81 disasters inside the United States. This year, we are on pace for well over 100. We just got done dealing with Hurricane Irene, and now we are dealing with historic wildfires in Texas and unprecedented flooding up in the northeast part of the country. This has been the worst year for natural disasters in U.S. history, and we still have nearly four months left to go. Hopefully after everything that has happened this year it has become abundantly clear to all of us why we need to prepare for emergencies. The world is becoming an increasingly unstable place, and you never know what is going to happen next.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/do-you-now-understand-why-you-need-to-prepare-for-emergencies-this-has-been-the-worst-year-for-natural-disasters-in-u-s-history

[Vanje]

1. Not Japan's best ever year either. nt

[Auntie Bush]

2. And the ReThugs still won't admit there's global warming! Idiots!

[dmallind]

9. Nah but they'll buy it's the start of the Tribulation I'll bet. nt

[spirit of wine]

3. Is there an equal distribution

on other parts of the planet? Or does nature bestow this hemisphere with some sort of an unequal bias, and why would that be?

[Bucky]

5. Global warming is causing earthquakes

[TheWraith]

11. Please tell me you forgot the sarcasm smiley.

Otherwise, please explain how atmospheric temperature affects plate tectonics.

[Bucky]

13. Please tell me you forgot to post the "I'm only pretending to be dense" smily

Sheesh

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Actually the weather related disasters have gone up world wide

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. And a few are predicted by global weather change

The only one not directly tied (and jury is still out) is earth quake activity.

[villager]

7. Thank God we don't need Gubmint, or Science Eggheads, though!

n/t

[virgogal]

8. Who wrote this article? I couldn't find the writer's name but

that may be just me.:shrug:

[Mnemosyne]

12. Couldn't find it either, but there is a just 'lovely' pic of Beckkk in an ad for gold. n/t

[kayakjohnny]

10. And this doesn't help one bit....

Historical U.S. populations
Census Pop. %±
1790 3,929,214
—
1800 5,236,631 33.3%
1810 7,239,881 38.3%
1820 9,638,453 33.1%
1830 12,866,020 33.5%
1840 17,069,453 32.7%
1850 23,191,876 35.9%
1860 31,443,321 35.6%
1870 38,558,371 22.6%
1880 49,371,340 28.0%
1890 62,979,766 27.6%
1900 76,212,168 21.0%
1910 92,228,496 21.0%
1920 106,021,537 15.0%
1930 123,202,624 16.2%
1940 132,164,569 7.3%
1950 151,325,798 14.5%
1960 179,323,175 18.5%
1970 203,211,926 13.3%
1980 226,545,805 11.5%
1990 248,709,873 9.8%
2000 281,421,906 13.2%
2010 308,745,538 9.7%

[pitohui]

14. only if you value dollars more than lives

over 2000 people dead just from katrina in 2005 and many other storms that year as well (stan, wilma, etc) but i guess a human life doesn't matter...it's all about the inflation adjusted holy christ on a crutch fucking dollar

we are poor so our dead in louisiana count for naught apparently

angry, bitter? oh fuck yeah

i am sorry some rich folk in the northeast will have to replace their million dollar vacation cottages but for fuck's sake...this is NOT the worst year for disasters in usa history by a long shot, jeebus