For more than three and a half hours, the Tri-State Tornado became the most deadly tornadoes that tore up the mainland U.S.. This tornado killed 700 people and destroyed more than 15,000 thousand homes in the area of Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. After this disaster, local governments began to develop a tornado warning system that is expected to reduce the death rate if disaster comes back.
2. Peshtigo Fire - October 8, 1871
Fires are not really highlight the attention of the public in the territory of Wisconsin and coincided with the Great Chicago Fire most turned out to be deadly in that year. City of Peshtigo, drought-stricken city was engulfed in the red rooster when strong winds carry the small fires from the burning desert. Fire is increasingly out of control continues to spread and reach the other side of the Peshtigo River, making the city trapped from both sides. When the fire successfully defused, 1200 people were killed and twelve cities burned.
3. Johnstown Flood - May 31, 1889
In the late 19th century, small industrial community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania earned a reputation as a manufacturer of high quality steel. All the fame that washed away during the South Fork dam is less well maintained over the mountain, about 14 miles from the city, breaking due to the continuous rain fall. Water as much as 20 million tons of destroying Johnstown city with strength equivalent to Niagara Falls. This flood killed 2209 people and 1600 homes drowned.
4. Heat Wave 1988 - Summer 1988
Drought that hit and destroyed the U.S. agricultural economy exacerbated by heat wave attack in 1988. Losses in the agricultural sector due to this disaster exceeds U.S. $ 61 billion. Drought condition is sparking a fire That struck Yellowstone National Park and Mount Rushmore in the summer of 1988. About 5000 to 10,000 people exposed to various health complications due to the intense heat of this sting.
5. Heat Wave 1980 - Summer 1980
Attacks in the 1980 heat wave proved to be one of the worst weather conditions in U.S. emperatures hit the high-pressure U.S. central and southern U.S., pushing the temperature to reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius). As many as 10,000 people died from the heat and various illnesses from prolonged stress. Agricultural damage estimated at U.S. $ 48 billion.
6. Okeechobee Cyclone - 16 September 1928
When the residents of Lake Okeechobbee being displaced to know the predicted hurricane does not come as scheduled, they went back home. But bad luck struck in the afternoon before the evening of 16 September. The storm was coming. Hurricane-speed 140 mph (225 kph) were destroying the small town on the edge of the lake and caused severe flooding for weeks. About 2500 lives have been lost due to this tragedy.
7. Fire and Earthquake Strikes San Francisco
San Francisco residents woke up in the morning by an earthquake measuring 7.7 to 7.9 on the Richter scale that lasts less than one minute. Although only briefly, this earthquake caused fires in various parts of the city for four days in a row. Not only damage the gas line the city, the quake also damaged the underground water network.
Firefighters had difficulty because of lack of water. When the fire had extinguished, 3,000 lives have been lost and more than 500 blocks on fire. 225,000 people who managed to survive, must accept the bitter truth to become homeless.
8. Dust Dust Bowl - Early 1930
In early 1930, the field is the paradise of Great Plains farmers. Demand for grain continues to increase forcing farmers to work the land more friable in the south of the desert. Continuously tilled soil erosion, because the roots of grass and trees in the Great Plains was replaced by wheat seedlings.
The disaster actually happens when drought strikes. The outer layer of soil was turned into massive amounts of dust and swept away by strong Winds to the east, Causing the sky around the Atlantic coast region Became Until the dark. Most of the crops were destroyed by this tragedy. While the farmers, amounting to around half a million people, lost his job.
9. Hurricane Katrina - August 29, 2005
Atlantic storms are all classified as category 1 storm is the worst beach turned out to be a disaster in U.S. history.Hurricane Katrina wiped out coastal areas of Louisiana with a speed of 125 mph (201.1 kph), damaging levees protecting New Orleans, and drowning 80 percent of the city around. Katrina killed about 1836 people and caused damage worth U.S. $ 125 billion.
10. Galveston Hurricane - 8 September 1900Galveston is known at the end of the 19th century as the "Pearl of Texas" until finally The most powerful by natural disasters throughout U.S. history. Category 4 storm with a speed of 135 mph (217.26 kph), hit the largest city of Texas cotton producer in the morning, destroying almost all buildings with waves as high as 15 feet of water.
On the evening after a tragic accident, the entire island sink, tub Atlantis. Approximately 8,000 people listed as missing. Although the city is successfully Rebuilt, the welfare of the city the which has a reputation as "New York's Southern region" has never come again.
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