Une année catastrophique, exactement :
oui, mais c'est de 1954 qu'il s'agit.
On trouvera la description complète ici :
mais en voici un extrait amusant
1954: Thames River Over 4 Feet Above Normal, Famous Eton Swamped
1954: Britain Hit With "Flood Havoc" – Gales, Snow Add To Misery
1954: Heaviest Snowfall In 15 Years From Blizzard Blankets Chicago
1954: No Survivors When Blizzard "Wrecks" Japanese Fishing Fleet
1954: Worst Blizzard In Turkey In Over 40 Years Payalyzes Instanbul
1954: 100 MPH Blizzard Winds Howl Across Nebraska
1954: Worst Flood In Centuries – Bagdad, Iraq
1954: 100,000 Battle Severe Flooding In China
1954: Scientists Tell Congress That The Arctic Might Be Navigable By 1979
1954: Arctic Permafrost In Canada Melting – Natives Have To Be Moved
1954: "New York In Grip Of Blizzard"
1954: Austrian-German Border Area Suffers Disastrous Floods – 16 Killed
1954: "Freak of Nature" Produces Famine, Flood & Drought For Region of India
1954: Melting Himalayan Glacier Flooding – 200,000 Homeless
1954: North African Earthquake Followed By More Tremors – 1,340 Deaths In Algeria
1954: ‘Great Iran Flood’ Killed Over 10,000
1954: Longest Drought Grows To Four U.S. States
1954: Heat Wave In Illinois Registers 117 Degree Temperature – Highest Ever
1954: Dixie First Hit By Dust Storms Then Tornadoes
1954: Drought Turns To Floods In Texas
1954: Gales Blasts Portugal – 4 Die
1954: Worst Floods of Century Devastate Areas of Nepal
1954: Hurricane Carol Stampedes Through New England – 49 Dead
1954: Hurricane Edna Blasts New England & Canada
1954: Hurricane Hazel Strikes Haiti, U.S. & Canada – At Least 1,000 Dead
1954: 8 Hurricanes Wreak Havoc On U.S. During 1954 – Worst Year On Record
1954: Spanish Coastguard Vessel Sunk By Gale Near Gibraltar
1954: Record Flood Damages & Losses Reported In Areas Of Australia
1954: Record Heat Wave Brings Death
1954: Gale Creates 15 Foot Waves In English Channel, Slams Britain’s Coast
1954: 18 Die In Airliner Crash Caused By Mexican Dust Storm
1954: Across The Globe, Weather Breaks All The Rules
1954: Floods & Landslides Leave 10,000 Italians Homeless
1954: Radioactive Dust Storm Injures 23 Japanese Fishermen
1954: "NINE DEATHS IN COAST-TO-COAST STORM Plains Swept by Snow and Blizzard"
1954: 69 MPH Gale Pummels Adelaide, Australia
Gute Shabbes!