United States natural disasters

This page aims to provide a place for coordinating information on the relation between natural disasters in the United States and places (represented by place names) therein. This is not formally a part of either WikiProject United States or Humanitarian Open Street Map but rather an outgrowth of the observation that there is not a good place to hold information about natural disasters in the United States which affect multiple states. It would be anticipated that those events impacting only (or predominately) a single state would appear in closer association to that state.

Tornadoes

Tornadoes tend to render damage over either single or multiple small land areas.

• Ocean City, Maryland

  "Tornado reports in Ocean City, Md.", 15 Sept 2011, Delaware News-Journal. Damage localized to 75th Street; 1753583 1753583.

Tropical storms

Tropical storms tend to render damage over a broad land area both from high winds and flooding.

Lee, Sept 2011

see Wikipedia:Tropical Storm Lee (2011)

• "Phila. floodwaters finally receding, some roads still closed", 09 Sept 2011, Philadelphia Business Journal.

  place-names mentioned as impacted — Pennsylvania Route 263 between Route 32 (River Road) and Center Bridge Road in Solebury Township, Bucks County (map) (closed); Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania (map) (some boat-based rescues); Elmira, New York (map); Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (map); Johnson City Wegmans Food Market (map);

• "Region grapples with flooding", 10 Sept 2011, News-Journal. Mandatory evacuation orders were in place for several locales in the affected region.

  place-names mentioned as impacted — Seaford, Delaware (map); Conowingo Dam (map); Susquehanna River (relation); Bloomsburg Pennsylvania (map); Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (map); Port Deposit, Maryland (map); Perryville High School, shelter (map); Nanticoke River (way)