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Nature's Wrath: The Most Dangerous U.S. Cities
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8-4-2006 6:48 PM
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8-5-2006
1:57 AM
bignosemousie
Whew, Houston is No. 43. Dallas is more dangerous, but I already knew that.
8-6-2006
11:31 AM
Kore7
Deepti and I were disscussing this very topic a while ago...
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8833a948-c284-4aff-bcbc-609d45c52c13/FE72D1BF-4E4F-4C15-8C02-C0FC155E4C9E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060804_disaster_cities.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060804_disaster_cities.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060804_disaster_cities.html"><DIV class="topheadline">Nature's Wrath: The Most Dangerous U.S. Cities</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060804_disaster_cities.html"><P class="style1">Mother Nature has various ways of reminding us who is in charge. The particular threats and the extent of risk vary greatly based on where you live [See <A href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/top10_naturaldisasterthreats_us.html">Top 10 US Threats</A>].</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060804_disaster_cities.html"><P class="style1">While there is no easy way to gauge overall risk of disaster, researchers love to try. One recent study found that in general, the world's population is <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/060718_map_settle.html">migrating to coastal areas</A>, where the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/ap_050731_hurricanes_stronger.html">threat of hurricanes</A> and <A href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050114_underground_floods.html">flooding</A> from <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/050317_global_warming.html">rising seas</A> are now well known. 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