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Peshtigo fire
The same day a the great Chicago fire in the city of peshtigo that trap the people on both sides of the river -
Johnstown flood
A steel town in Pennsylvania was flooded because of a break in a Dam 14 miles away. -
Hurricane Galveston
Galveston was known at the end of the 19th Century as the "Jewel of Texas" until the single deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history wiped away much of what had been a booming future. -
Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake
An earthquake than lasted about a minute set of a series of fires in the process -
Tri-state tornado
A 3 and a half hour tornado moved through the tri state area -
Okeechobee hurricane
Civilians did not expect a hurricane when they woke up to a 140 mph moving hurricane -
Dust Bowl
Prior to the early 1930's, the Great Plains was a farmer's paradise. Rising demands for wheat spurred settlers to plow much of the southern plains' grassy soil to meet this need. Date unknown -
Heat wave of 1980
A 90 degree heat wave destroyed 48 billion dollars worth of crops -
Heat wave of 1988
With more damage done to crops this time another record heat wave came in destroying more than 65 billion dollars worth of crops -
Hurricane Katrina
The Atlantic storm that began as a category 1 hurricane as it blew across southern Florida wound up being the country's costliest tragedy.
