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Pages in category "2008 natural disasters in the United States" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
2008 Hurricane: 113 $38 billion (2008 USD) Hurricane Ike: Southeast Texas, Texas, Louisiana, Southern United States: At the time, Ike was the costliest natural disaster in Texas history, after leaving behind $38 billion in damages in Texas alone. 2008 Hurricane: 53 $8.31 billion (2008 USD) Hurricane Gustav
2008 natural disasters in the United States (3 C, 23 P) W. 2008 wildfires (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "2008 natural disasters" The following 13 pages are in this ...
2008 natural disasters in the United States (3 C, 23 P) Pages in category "2008 disasters in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 ...
2008 disasters in South America (4 C) B. Building and structure collapses in 2008 (4 P) E. Explosions in 2008 (1 C, 15 P) F. 2008 fires (5 C, 3 P) H. 2008 health ...
The Kingston Fossil Plant Spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.
Annual temperature departures for the year 2008. 2008 was the coldest year since 1994 in the United States. Hundreds of flights in and out of Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (400 flights) in Montreal, Pearson International Airport in Toronto and Macdonald-Cartier International Airport in Ottawa where canceled. [42]