Re: [californiadisasters] 2010's World Gone Wild: Quakes, Floods, Blizzards

Don't get me going about the media! This is typical:

1. "The earth struck back" What!?

2. Apples and turnips (at least apples and oranges are both fruit): Death
toll of natural disasters can't possibly compare to that of terrorism. So
far, at least, terrorists haven't learned how to completely devastate
hundreds of square kilometers at one time.

3. "Record number of events"? What, for FEMA, which has existed for only
about 30 years?

[Rant aborted; don't get me going.]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 1:39 PM
Subject: [californiadisasters] 2010's World Gone Wild: Quakes, Floods,
Blizzards

2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzardsBy SETH BORENSTEIN and
JULIE REED BELL, Associated Press Seth Borenstein And Julie Reed Bell,
Associated Press – Sun Dec 19, 11:26 am ET

This was the year the Earth struck back.

Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards,
landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 —
the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed
worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism
attacks in the past 40 years combined.

"It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves," said Craig
Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a
record number of disasters in 2010.

"The term '100-year event' really lost its meaning this year."
<SNIP>

View entire article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101219/ap_on_sc/ye_sci_disastrous_year

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