May 2008: month of the natural disaster
We live on a dangerous planet. In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, one of the deadliest tropical cyclones of all time, China's worst earthquake in 32 years has struck just 12 days later. Rarely in recorded history have twin natural disasters claiming 10,000 or more lives struck so close to each other in time. The last such occurrence I could find was in China in 1931. That summer, the world's deadliest natural disaster of all time--the Yellow River Flood of 1931--killed b...
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On this date in 1896, Climax, Colo. reported a low temperature of -10 degrees, setting a United States low temperature record for the month of May. Two years later, hailstones over nine inches in circumference pounded through Kansas City, Mo. causing many south-facing windows to be broken.
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