What is the worst natural disaster that has happened in the U.S.?

Question

Your opinion plz

Answer 1

In my mind, after careful consideration, it would be Hurricane Katrina. Katrina killed many people, some of whom were innocent low-income residents. At the time of Katrina, the Hurricane season had reached its record climax for number of hurricanes. If not, it was extremely close.

Here's some stuff about Hurricane Katrina:

Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record that made landfall in the United States. Katrina formed on August 23 during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and caused devastation along much of the north-central Gulf Coast of the United States. The most severe loss of life and property damage occurred in New Orleans, which flooded as the levee system failed catastrophically, in many cases hours after the storm had moved inland.[1] The hurricane caused severe destruction across the entire Mississippi coast and into Alabama, as far as 100 miles (160 km) from the storm's center. Katrina was the eleventh tropical storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic season.

It formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there, before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico and becoming one of the strongest hurricanes on record while at sea. The storm weakened before making its second and third landfalls as a Category 3 storm on the morning of August 29 in southeast Louisiana and at the Louisiana/Mississippi state line, respectively.

The storm surge caused severe damage along the Gulf Coast, devastating the Mississippi cities of Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pascagoula. In Louisiana, the flood protection system in New Orleans failed in 53 different places. Nearly every levee in metro New Orleans breached as Hurricane Katrina passed east of the city, subsequently flooding 80% of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes for weeks.[1]

At least 1,836 people lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. The storm is estimated to have been responsible for $81.2 billion (2005 U.S. dollars) in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Criticism of the federal, state and local governments' reaction to the storm was widespread and resulted in an investigation by the United States Congress and the resignation of FEMA director Michael Brown. The storm also prompted Congressional review of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the failure of the levee protection system. Conversely, the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service were widely commended for accurate forecasts and abundant lead time.

Answer 2

One of the worst natural disasters in the United States struck on April 18, 1906. An earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale destroyed much of San Francisco. The quake killed 3,000 people and destroyed more than 500 city blocks -- about 28,000 buildings.

Answer 3

Hurricane Katrina

Answer 4

No. But to sharp your direction: Natural disasters happen when there are problems in Israel. America has nothing to do with it. Bill Clintion was leading Israel to disaster but nothing really happend. As an Israeli I can say that without USA support, I guess that the mid-east was having colossal catastrophe long time ago...

Answer 5

It was probably the Great Earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco.

Even the most devastating hurricanes -- Katrina, Hugo, Carmen and the two that happened before storms were named in Rhode Island and Galveston -- don't match the terror and fire and utter destruction of the earthquake and the resulting fires.

Answer 6

In recent times, Hurricane Katrina.

But there was the great blizzard in the late 1800s. That caused a LOT of damage throughout the Northeast.

Answer 7

Not Katrina. There was a huricane that wiped out Galveston and killed @ 12,000 people. They had to actually burn the bodies. Alaos the Johnstown flood had more fatalities than Katrina.

Answer 8

Hurricane Katrina


Anything that can destroy an entire City of that size is Number One.