Hurricanes and Their Effects on Louisiana

Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano in 79 A.D, on February 7 , in 1812 the New Madrid earthquake caused the illusion that made people think the Mississippi River flowed backward for a few hours , on March 18, 1925, 685 people were killed by a tornado that went through the upper and central Midwest , and on October 8, 1871, the Peshtigo, Wisconsin forest fire destroyed 1.2 million acres of timberland and left 1,182 people dead , and in 1883 the Krakatoa Volcano erupted sending tsunamis crashing into Indonesia killing more than 36,000 . …