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Pretty scary stuff, huh?
But haven’t we heard this all before?
“Gee, this is some crazy weather we’ve been having.”
I’m old enough to remember some pretty darn extreme weather, like Hurricane Camille, a monster Cat 5 storm that devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969. There was the Super Tornado Outbreak
of April, 1974: a complex of 148 twisters that spun across hundreds of
mile of the Midwest, killing 148, injuring 5,300, and wiping the town of
Xenia, OH off the map. And lest we forget the record cold winter of
1977-78, when natural gas supplies ran low.
Many of our impressions of current extreme weather conditions have to
do with the fact that 1) they’re fresh in our memories; 2) we have
better communications and 3) higher population densities than in times
past.
Complaining about extreme weather is part of the human condition.
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane with The New York Times, all the
way back to 1888: "
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