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Originally Posted by theducks
What all these numbers don't seem to acknowledge, is what else was happening at these times. 
People being flooded out of their homes
People being buried in snow
People with wells going dry, crops dying because of the drought (or restrictions)
Tornadoes, wildfire... |
Except those things (and equivalents) are happening all the time, every year.
They may be new where they're happening *this* year but last year there were still people under drought (in the south east) getting flooded (the Dakotas), getting hurricaned...
(If anything, we've been lucky with hurricanes out in the Atlantic region.)
Disasters are only new when they happen to you.