2007-08-27 15:00:28 · 15 answers · asked by wearyarms 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
-1906 San Francisco Earthquake
-1900 Texas Hurricane
-1888 East Coast Blizzard
-1930s Great Plains Drought
There is a list of the worst U.S. Disasters on this website:
2007-08-27 15:08:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hurricanes in North Carolina. there was one in the 60s or 70s that swamped one of the NC islands--it drowned some of the residents who refused to evacuate. A tidal wave hit the West Coast in the 60s or 70s. One year saw more tornados than usual. Sorry about being so vague. It's been a while since I saw these on Discovery Channel. Then Mt. St. Helens errupting killing some guy who lived there all his life and didn't want to leave. Earthquake during the world series. Then a few summers ago rich folk in beverly hills (or out that way) lost their mansions to a fierce forrest fire. And there was that sitcom starring Morris Day. And the movie Ishtar. :-)
2007-08-27 22:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by diesel_pusher2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hurricane Katrina
California Earthquakes
2007-08-27 22:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schoolhouse Blizzard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard
2007-08-27 22:10:18 · answer #4 · answered by mobiledj_1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A meteor hit the desert and created a crater a mile wide and half a mile deep.
An earthquake in northeastern Arkansas raised a ridge a quarter mile high and a couple hundred miles long. The Mississippi river flowed backwards.
2007-08-27 22:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by Bacse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hurricane Katrina
Mount St. Helens
California earthquakes
California fires
Midwest flooding
Go back a few million years, and there is the Yellowstone National Park supervolcano.
2007-08-27 22:26:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly one of the worst, but one I lived through-- Hurricane Agnes. I was 7 near Baltimore in 1972. My family was stranded at a relative's house overnight. Though it was small by hurricane standards, it was huge by Mid Atlantic standards and was a "perfect storm" in a sense in that it combined with another system making it way worse. A lot of people died....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Agnes
2007-08-27 22:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1973 and 1993 midwest floods
1811 and 1812 Earthquakes near New Madrid, MO (BTW Bacse, Crowley's Ridge is not an earthquake feature)
2003 tornado outbreak
1930's dustbowl (might not count as 'natural' to everybody)
2007-08-27 22:17:56 · answer #8 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The Great Chicago Fire (semi natural).
2007-08-27 22:06:33 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hurricane Katrina, 1906 earthquake (which led to a "great fire" after a gas line got ignited), malibu wildfire, The Dust Bowl, mt st. helens eruption.
2007-08-27 22:07:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋