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I chose to only include disasters since 2000 to limit the list. The point is that an incontrovertable number historically significant events have occurred since then - beyond the realm of coincidence. In fact, 7 of the top 10 disasters in the U.S. have occurred since 2000 - the other 3 occurred in 1989, 1992 and 1994.

The point is that an incontrovertable number historically significant events have occurred since then - beyond the realm of coincidence.

Horse cookies. A whole lot of historically significant events have occurred throughout history. In fact, history contains a lot of historically significant events. Can you even have history without them?

And in terms of the Christian world, the most significant historical events took place centuries earlier ... things like the plague, the various European wars, the Renaissance, and so on. Those were huge events -- much bigger than the sorts of things you wrote down (and which happened regularly beforehand, too).

In fact, 7 of the top 10 disasters in the U.S. have occurred since 2000 - the other 3 occurred in 1989, 1992 and 1994.

Top 10 in terms of what? Cost? You don't suppose that might have something to do with the fact that a lot of folks built houses in dangerous areas. It's not like huge storms and such haven't hit those places before ... it's just that there are people there now.

My problem with a lot of these statistics is that with inflation, each succeeding storm will almost always have a chance at setting the record for the "MOST COSTLIEST EVER"...

The non-inflation adjusted cost is meaningless. Same with "MOST DEADLY...". Well gee, with the population always going up, the same thing applies.

Unless they compare these costs/lives as an average of current GDP/population, etc., the statistics will be deceitful.

Of course, a storm now is always going to be costlier than an identical storm 200 years ago: there's more stuff to get wrecked! Your opinion that there's some increase in the size of the storms is just that: your opinion.

Hey, the largest earthquake in US history happened in the early 1800's. Maybe God is less mad now - he's hardly touched us since 1906!

The point is that an incontrovertable number historically significant events have occurred since then

Short memory. Those that lived a couple of generations ago would generate lists that were equally "historical".

The point is that an incontrovertable number historically significant events have occurred since then - beyond the realm of coincidence.

It's incontrovertable if you ignore everything that happened prior to 1963.

In fact, 7 of the top 10 disasters in the U.S. have occurred since 2000 - the other 3 occurred in 1989, 1992 and 1994.

Of course. There is more people, and more wealth to destory. A proper comparison would be to measure the % of wealth destoryed by disasters--- but nobody has those numbers.