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To: bushisdamanin04
Is this fact or fiction? Does anyone have any facts or articles that compare today's natural disasters with those of 20, 50, 100, 200 years ago?

I googled 'greatest disasters' and checked out a few links.

Spanish flu, 1918 - 1919... 20 - 40 million dead.

Yangtze River flood, 1931... 3 - 5 million dead.

So yeah, this tsunami event is horrifying as events unfold; but in the historical scheme of things, not even close.

62 posted on 12/27/2004 4:03:41 PM PST by IonImplantGuru (PhD, School of Hard Knocks)
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To: IonImplantGuru

Thanks.


63 posted on 12/27/2004 4:05:04 PM PST by bushisdamanin04
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