The Nation's Top 10 Natural Disasters

[Old Tiger]

The Nation's Top 10 Natural Disasters By The Associated Press
Wed Sep 14,11:20 PM ET



Hurricane Katrina's latest death toll makes it the nation's seventh deadliest natural disaster, so far:

1. Galveston (Texas) Hurricane, 1900, estimated 8,000 deaths

2. Great Okeechobee Hurricane in Florida, 1928, estimated 2,500-plus

3. Johnstown, Pa., Flood, 1889, estimated 2,200-plus

4. Louisiana Hurricane, 1893, 2,000-plus

5. South Carolina-Georgia Hurricane, 1893, 1,000-2,000

6. Great New England Hurricane, 1938, 720

7. Hurricane Katrina, with the latest toll at 710.

8. San Francisco Earthquake, 1906, 700

9. Georgia-South Carolina Hurricane, 1881, 700

10. Tri-State Tornado in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, 1925, 695

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Source: Rusty Pfost, meteorologist with the National Weather Service and The Associated Press.

[lostaussie]

i think katrina , unfortunately, is gonna move up at least one more spot, maybe more.

[AggieJohn]

this is based on the number of deaths, katrina is going to cost over 50 billion to recover from, where as the closest one to that is 20 billion

[Old Tiger]

AJ, a life is more important than stupid money ;)

[AggieJohn]

yeah but it think the title of the poll presents that it should include it

[Phil C]

I once met an old man (about 25 years ago) who was in his late 70s at the time and when he was a young man he once worked for an old man who lost his family in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. He had a wife and three kids but he was out of town in New Mexico on business. While in New Mexico he heard the news of the hurricane and got back to Galveston as fast as he could (They didn't have cars or planes then and he had to travel by train). He got back to Galveston but was unable to ever find his wife or kids who had lost their lives in this great tragedy. I think 90% of the people in Galveston lost their lives. Strange but I don't think a movie has ever been made about this event but they have made at least one about the San Francisco Earthquake with Clark Gable.

[handNthedirt]

so many people died in Galveston because the meteorologist, Ivan, completely downplayed the storm, predicting a tropical depression...therefore, nobody evacuated. he was to blame...and the hurricane was appropriately named after him. If you're ranking the natural disasters by death toll, why not name it 'the nation's top 10 deadliest natural disasters.' ????