Every part of the country has its own types of natural disasters. In the south they get hurricanes, in the west earthquakes, and here in the north we get blizzards that have miles of flat plains to blow through. One memorable storm is the blizzard of 1984 which swept across the Great Plains with 60 mile-per-hour winds. It hit Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and of course, North Dakota. The cold air even went as far south as Texas.