Old Rocks
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And we still have two months to go.
Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year | New England Post
The insurance company Munich Re calculated that in the first six months of the year there have been 98 natural disasters in the United States, about double the average of the 1990s.
Even before Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was on pace to obliterate the record for declared disasters issued by state, reflecting both the geographic breadth and frequency of Americas problem-plagued year.
If you werent in a drought, you were drowning is what it came down to, Masters said.
Add to that, oppressive and unrelenting heat. Tens of thousands of daily weather records have been broken or tied and nearly 1,000 all-time records set, with most of them heat or rain related:
The number of natural disasters the federal government declares is purely a political issue. It's not any kind of scientific measurement. The president declares a disaster at the drop of a hate these days. It's a great excuse for spending money and buying votes.
Too funny! So, Texas burning up, the Missouri and Mississippi in flood from March to September, two medium sized cities with F-5 tornadoes going right down the middle are just political excuses to declare an emergency.
Pattycake, you are too stupid for words.