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Originally posted by tabs
Excuse me..but what does Katrina have to do with Global Warming?
Scientists have found evidence (core samples of earth in the Gulf region) that Hurricane activity is on a 500 year cycle...and North America is coming off a 500 year period of little activity...
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Tabs,
You have to excuse him, he is a canook, his socialist country doesn't even allow them all the news. Plus, where does he get the idea that our economy is weak??? How do canooks explain all the hurricanes that happened before Americans started driving in large #s? Here are a few Pre WWII, that hit TX.
August 25-29, 1945: (landfall near Port O'Connor)
3 dead
$20.1 million damage
135 wind gusts
15 feet storm surge at Port Lavaca
July 27, 1943: (landfall near Galveston)
19 dead
$16.6 million damage
August 29-31, 1942: (landfall near Matagorda Bay)
8 dead
$26.5 million damage
115 mph winds
14.7 feet storm surge at Matagorda
September 23, 1941: (landfall near Texas City)
4 dead
$6.5 million damage
July 25, 1934: (landfall in Seadrift)
19 dead
$4.5 million damage
September 4-5, 1933: (landfall near Brownsville)
40 dead
$16.9 million damage
September 14, 1919: (landfall south of Corpus Christi)
284 dead
$20.3 million damage
110 mph winds
16 feet storm surge
August 13-14, 1932: (landfall near Velasco)
40 dead
$7.5 million damage
August 18-19, 1916: (landfall near Corpus Christi)
20 dead
$1.6 million damage
August 16-19, 1915: (landfall near Galveston)
375 dead
over $56 million damage - $50million of total damage were crop losses
San Augustine recorded 19.8 inches of rain
16.1 feet storm surge
July 21-22, 1909: (landfall near Velasco)
41 dead
$2 million damage
September 8-10, 1900: (landfall near Galveston
6,000-12,000 dead
$30 million - $40 million damage
15-20 feet storm surge
120mph winds
worst natural disaster in U.S. history