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Eleven Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters in 2012 [1]

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Weather.com - Chris Dolce, 12/20/12

Longport, N.J.

Heavy equipment operators work on a mountain of debris left by Superstorm Sandy Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Wall, N.J.
Associated Press.

It was another expensive year of weather-related disasters in the United States.

The country saw a preliminary total of eleven billion-dollar weather disasters in 2012, according to a report released by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This follows a disastrous 2011, which contained a record fourteen billion-dollar weather disasters in records dating to 1980.

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