Jerry Falwell dead.

Yes, the Westboro Baptist Church will be there.

Unless you consider the Civil War, the British burning down most of Washington, the destruction of San Fransisco, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, et cetera to be bad things in some way. They also had a lot more epidemic diseases and a much shorter life expectancy back in those days. That's a sure sign of God's wrath, right?I wonder what he could have been so annoyed about? Maybe it was bigotry.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Is there any evidence for this, or is this just one of those things that you think you saw on TV somewhere, like those "tropical zebras in arctic ice"?Fires are much less destructive nowadays, 'cos buildings are more fireproof and we have fire brigades. I should guess that they're also less common per capita due to the reduced popularity of naked flames for lighting and heating.I'm not sure who's been counting tornados, but given that there's more stuff to destroy, you may inadvertently be right.As for floods, I'm sure that history must record some floods more destructive than New Orleans ... I can't quite think of one right now ... can anyone give Buzsaw an example of a big flood?