Killer Weather

5 Worst Hurricanes in History

If you live in a hurricane-prone area you know that there are always problems that can come up suddenly and without a whole lot of warning. There have been a lot of bad storms out there, but these five are some of the worst in history:

1. The 1839 Indian Cyclone killed more than 300,000 people.

2. The 1970 Bhola Cyclone that hit Bangladesh took the lives of 500,000 people in that area.

3. In 1881 there was a Typhoon that hit Haiphong, Vietnam. It killed 300,000 people.

4. India was hit by the Calcutta Cyclone in 1737, and the lives of 300,000 people were lost.

5. During 1975 Super Typhoon Nina brought her fury to China and 210,000 people lost their lives.

As frightening as these hurricanes are, none of them have been recent, and even devastation from storms like Andrew, Ivan, Ike, and Katrina can’t compare with some of the damage to human life that’s happened in the past. That doesn’t mean, however, that there won’t be something of this magnitude of devastation in the future of the planet.

Pacific Northwest Continues to See Wicked Weather

For people who live in the Pacific Northwest, this year has come in with a bang. They likely thought that they might be putting an end to the severe weather by saying goodbye to 2008, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Instead, they just found that they were seeing more and more storms coming in off of the ocean and bringing problems.

Places along the Washington coast like Ocean Shores, Aberdeen, and Montesano got several inches of snow, and some people said it was more than the area had received at one time in decades. Now it’s raining and there are all types of flash flood watches and warnings up and down the Oregon and Washington coasts.

When it will be ending is something that residents and meteorologists are both wondering about. Each time it seems that there might be a break in the wet weather it’s brief and then it’s right back to raining again. That area of the country is used to rainy weather this time of year, but not to the excessive rain and snowfall that they’ve been having. There doesn’t appear to be an ending in sight.