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160 years of the Oregon State Fair: Down memory lane

In 1967, just a month before opening day, one of those fires wiped out 40 percent of the exhibition space. ... The poultry building was ...

These Florida domed homes have survived category 5 hurricanes

"Total destruction next to a dome house that's still standing. It's quite impressive." In the US, hurricanes cause more death and destruction ...

YMCA National History :: About Us - Marshfield YMCA

The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London, England, on June 6, 1844, in response to unhealthy social conditions arising in the big cities.

My Story: When the Signs of Sepsis are Missed | Blogs | CDC

My dad has been in and out of the hospital for the past two years. ... I had a home nurse that came out twice a week and cleaned it up but ...

Four Years After Hurricane Michael: Revisiting the Devastation of ...

More than 800 of the structures were completely destroyed. The storm surge's destructive force obliterated entire neighborhoods, leaving behind ...

Hurricanes on repeat: Natural disasters 'don't feel natural anymore'

Their home sits atop 14-foot-tall concrete pillars, and last year's Hurricane Idalia destroyed one set of stairs and damaged the other. They had ...

Chapter 4: Sea Level Rise and Implications for Low-Lying Islands ...

In the example, a water level of 2.5 m above mean sea level, recurring in the recent climate approximately every 100 years in recent past climate, will occur ...

Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is ...

A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York ...

Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | Events

Grand Isle, Louisiana took a direct hit with 100% of its homes damaged and nearly 40% were nearly-to-completely destroyed. There was heavy damage to the ...

2023 US Tornadoes - Center for Disaster Philanthropy

There were at least 21 homes destroyed and an additional 31 homes with major damage. Laguna Hills is an unincorporated community comprised of ...

The Worst Disasters in US History | Everglades University

While it happened nearly 150 years ago, the Peshtigo Fire is still considered one of the worst disasters in US history. peshtigo fire worst ...

Hurricane Michael Recovery Still Has A Long Way To Go - NPR

The Koppelmans are among the tens of thousands of Floridians who have been forced out of their homes since Michael, the strongest storm ever to ...

Hurricane Katrina | Deaths, Damage, & Facts | Britannica

In New Orleans, where much of the greater metropolitan area is below sea level, federal officials initially believed that the city had “dodged ...

Brief History of Pandemics (Pandemics Throughout History) - PMC

In a long succession throughout history, pandemic outbreaks have decimated societies, determined outcomes of wars, wiped out entire populations, but also, ...

GlobalTrends_2040.pdf - DNI.gov

We offer this analysis with humility, knowing that invariably the future will unfold in ways that we have not foreseen. Although Global Trends is necessarily ...

Lessons from Hurricane Michael being applied to Ian recovery - The ...

... rebuilt Mexico Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Destroyed by Hurricane Michael, the Florida Panhandle community is still rebuilding four years later.

Remarks by President Biden on How His Investments are ...

Look, the story of Bronzeville here in Milwaukee is one that we see all across the country. Our interstate highway system, laid out in the '50s, ...

Love Canal - Wikipedia

Decades of dumping toxic chemicals killed residents and harmed the health of hundreds, often profoundly. ... The area was cleaned up over 21 years in a Superfund ...

UKRAINE Third Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA3 ...

infrastructure has resulted from nearly two years of war. The most ... were rebuilt (out of more than 50 km destroyed) and 769 km of ...

Broken Windows - The Atlantic

Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the ...