From CNN: Blackouts darken New York

From a BBC Article:
Six months since Hurricane Katrina laid waste to more than 215,000 homes, sales of anywhere high and dry, with gas and electricity and close to open schools, have gone off the chart.
Families and businesses with the resources to return to New Orleans have driven up prices by some 20%, to an [...]

From CNN
The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 is estimated to have killed between 8,000 and 12,000 people. The Category 4 hurricane struck on September 8, 1900, leveling 12 city blocks, nearly three-quarters of the island city of Galveston, Texas.
In 1900, Galveston was stuck on itself, boasting Texas’ first [...]

For those who didn’t know, the Led Zep song “When the Levee Breaks” is a cover - Memphis Minnie McCoy did it first in 1929.