Ten Things You Might Not Know About Extreme Weather-- Part 3

6. Isaac Cline, head of the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Galveston, Texas, wrote in 1891 that it was absurd to think that a tropical storm would ever hit the TEXAS COAST. Nine years later, a hurricane devastated GALVESTON, TEXAS, killing around 8,000. //// 7. NORTH AMERICA is the world's dustbin. Millions of tons of Asian dust from massive Gobi Desert storms regularly cross the Pacific to the U.S. Also, Saharan dust has crossed the Atlantic to the east coast. This dust in the east create beatiful sunsets and help tamp down hurricane activity. //// And, then There Was All That Dust From Mt. St. Helens. --DaCoot