Costliest U.S. Weather Disasters Since 1980

[malaise]

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/damage1980.asp
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Rank Disaster Year Deaths Damage*
1. Hurricane Katrina (LA/MS/AL/FL) 2005 1833 $84,645,000,000
2. Midwest/Eastern U.S. Drought 1988 7,500 $71,200,000,000
3. Midwest/Eastern U.S. Drought 1980 10,000 $55,400,000,000
4. Hurricane Andrew (SE FL/SE LA) 1992 26 $48,058,000,000
5. Midwest Flooding 1993 48 $30,200,000,000
6. Hurricane Wilma (FL) 2005 22 $21,527,000,000
7. Hurricane Ike (TX/LA/MS) 2008 54 $18,000,000,000
8. Hurricane Charley (FL) 2004 15 $16,322,000,000
9. Midwest Floods 2008 24 $15,000,000,000
10. Hurricane Ivan (FL/AL) 2004 26 $13,000,000,000
* - Adjusted to 2007 dollars on basis of U.S. Dept. of Commerce Implicit Price Deflator for Construction. Hurricane statistics are taken from the National Hurricane Center and adjusted to 2006 dollars.

[doc03]

1. What about the Bush Administration, that cost trillions

not just a few billion? It wasn't a weather disaster but it was definitely a disaster.

[malaise]

2. Not sure those numbers can fit on any page

That fugging war criminal was a disaster.

[madrchsod]

3. there were also bad droughts in the late 70`s

one year it was "snirt" snow with and dirt mixed together. that spring i watched the fields blow away and bad crops. the following year we had 83inches of snow and horrific wind chills of 70 below.