[font="Tahoma"]This year has been a landmark year for bad weather. We had the Earthquake and resulting Tsunami effect a ton of people in the Eastern Pacific. Tornadoes rip across the midwest of the US.
So I did some digging and found the top 10 natural disasters as listed by Death toll:
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters"]Wiki's List of Natural Disasters[/url]
In terms of Devastation, I'd say the country hardest hit by a natural disaster in recent memory was Haiti, because of the already super impoverished nature of that Country. In fact, the incoming hurricane Irene has brought a lot of heavy rain to the region, which still hurts the people living in tents and shanties trying to somehow rebuild.
The earthquake and tsunami that crippled the northeast region of Japan has done an estimated 300 billion dollars worth of damage and left hundreds of thousands of people misplaced from their homes and unable to return in some cases because of the fallout from the Radiation plant in Fukushima.
Fortunately enough for me, I've only experienced a few natural disasters in my life, but mostly just flooding. Do you guys live in an area that is affected by natural disasters? Have you ever been caught up in one? What do you guys usually do when Mother Nature is giving you grief?
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