The storm caused flooding and landslides that damaged thousands of houses.
June 9, 1953: The 1953 Worcester tornado killed 94 people as it damaged or destroyed thousands of homes in central Massachusetts, including the city of Worcester.
The flooding damaged thousands of houses and caused three indirect deaths.
Many ethnic Chinese merchants remain afraid to reopen their shops after three days of rioting last month that damaged thousands of buildings and cost at least 500 lives in Jakarta alone.
Resultant mudslides damaged thousands of homes, and five people died.
Net entrapments threaten the lives of scores of whales every year, and a trapped whale can damage thousands of dollars' worth of gear.
Throughout Belize, Hurricane Richard damaged thousands of homes and leaving many without power.
Damage was heaviest in Dare County, where storm surge flooding and strong winds damaged thousands of houses.
Beyond the 173 deaths, 120 of them caused by a single firestorm, the fires destroyed over 2,030 houses and more than 3,500 structures, and damaged thousands more.
Residents here couldn't do much to help when an ice storm last March damaged thousands of trees.