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Black Dutch said...
Aside from the yearly tornadoes, it seems like it's been a while since we've had a major tragedy in this country. I guess the last major event was the Discovery disaster in 2003. No major earthquakes, volcanoes, major airline crashes, or homeland terrorist events. I guess there was the BP oil spill and Steve Jobs.
Am I missing anything?
Everyone do a double check on the fault lines and airplane safety before we go home for the weekend.
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TC Spartan said...
100 people died in a nightclub fire in 2003. 49 died in an airline crash, comair flight 191 in 2006. 33 people died Virginia Tech 2007 13 people died in Bridge collapse 2007 50 people died on Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009 9 people died DC subway 2009 13 people died Fort Hood 2009 6 people died in 2011 Tuscon shooting
This isn't even counting all the people that died in mining accidents, floods, or tornadoes in that time frame which is a lot.
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Black Dutch said...
Mentioned the terrible tornadoes. But we get over 1,000 tornadoes a year in this country...not a unique disaster.
Wtf dude. So what qualifies as a disaster to YOU? Is there over/under on 100 dead? Jeebus.......
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Ron Jeremy said...
There is a difference between a disaster and some morons playing with guns and pyrotechnics.
I don't see anything you list here as disasters. Disasters are from natural causes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, landslides, hurricanes, etc.
Anything that is man-made is not a disaster.
.......you almost had me there.
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Black Dutch said...
Aside from the yearly tornadoes, it seems like it's been a while since we've had a major tragedy in this country. I guess the last major event was the Discovery disaster in 2003. No major earthquakes, volcanoes, major airline crashes, or homeland terrorist events. I guess there was the BP oil spill and Steve Jobs.
Am I missing anything?
Everyone do a double check on the fault lines and airplane safety before we go home for the weekend.
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Panda House said...
I didn't say they made anything up. However, the tornado outbreak last year left that same type of homelessness and damage, and they weren't talking about it for 6 months. I actually have less sympathy for the people of New Orleans, because they had been getting warnings for many years that, "New Orleans cannot withstand a direct hit from a hurricane." Plenty of time to relocate.
This post was edited by SpartanBoiler on 2/26/2012 at 6:47 PM
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SpartanBoiler said...
1,833 people died in Katrina. It caused $108B in damages (in 2008 dollars); the next closest hurricane is Andrew at $40B (in 2008 dollars). The 2011 tornado outbreak killed 359 people and caused $11B in damages (in 2011 dollars).
So, Katrina caused more than five times the number of deaths and about ten times the amount of damage.
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Seems like a while since we've had a major American disaster.