The 10 Worst Weather Disasters This Year and Why They Are Happening

Surveying damage from Irene in New Jersey.
Photo Credit: Agence France-Presse


We've already had 10 disasters topping $1 billion each and it's only September -- what gives?
September 12, 2011

Floodwaters remain threatening in parts of the Northeast. A cresting Susquehanna River caused evacuations late last week in Pennsylvania -- the culprit that time was tropical storm Lee, which came on the heels of Hurricane Irene. These days extreme weather is beginning to seem like the new normal in a year marked by disastrous events -- deadly tornadoes, raging floods, crippling drought and wildfire, massive hurricanes, and don't forget the great white-out of "snowpocalpyse."
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