According to the Thai Meteorological Department’s Automatic Weather Station (AWS), over 500 millilitres of rain fell over a 7-day period starting on December 1st and lasting through the 7th in 2016. It would be recognized as the worst  flood in over 30 years in the southern part of the country.

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This story was a featured in the hit television series The Crown.  The Great Smog is the central event of season 1, episode 4 on the popular Netflix program. Fans of the sci-fi cult classic  Doctor Who, will remember when "The Great Smog" was the setting of the audio play "The Creeping Death".  And the The Boris Starling novel Visibility is also set in this 1952 smog event.

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After being devastated in December of 2011by the Tropical Storm ‘Washi”, Super Typhoon Bopha made landfall on Mindanao, late on December 3, as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h).

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It was to be celebrated as the 50th Grey Cup Championship. It was played in 1962, in Toronto at an outdoor stadium, that laid right along the shores of Lake Ontario. Already sounds like a bad idea and It remains the only Grey Cup game ever suspended during play...starting on Saturday the 1st and wrapping up on Sunday, the 2nd.

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For the storm to create so much chaos that Ten train cars went off their tracks in the middle of a busy day in Ohio, this was a storm that needed to be investigated further. The crashed train cars narrowly missed the main electrical feed that provides power to Amherst's 12,000 residents.

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Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, who was asleep on her living room couch at the time the object came crashing into and through her house. Normally we hear of meteorites falling into the ocean or driving into one of Earth's more open and  remote places; so this was a crazy thing to even consider happening. 

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It was a Black Friday that much is true but this disaster left 17 people dead and 114 injured in a series of chain-reaction accidents.  The California Highway Patrol who tended to this said that at least 93 cars and 11 transport trucks crashed into each other in the middle of the afternoon along a tiny 1 1/2-mile stretch of the highway.  

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THIS storm, named after the Mataafa wreck, was responsible for  damaging or totally destroying about 29 vessels, killing 36 and causing shipping losses of $3.567 million in 1905 dollars on Lake Superior.

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The blizzard of 1977 hit western New York as well as southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1.  Daily winds gusted over 110km/h (up to 70 mph).  Snowfall totals in some areas were as much as 100 inches...that’s over 2.5 METERS PLUS drifts as high as 30 to 40 ft!!. Then the next day a severe temperature drop turned the wet melted snow all over the field to a solid sheet of ice!!

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Lightning and heavy rain opened up early and pushed back the start of the game by 25 minutes at the Steeler’s home park Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Steelers won by ONE field goal; that’s right, final score: 3-0!!  AND THAT field goal came with only 17 seconds left in the game!!

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