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[SUP]Epic floods after hurricane Maria in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico.[/SUP]
Our disasters section is unusually busy this year as record numbers of our members are currently affected by extreme weather and other calamities most were cited as "worst ever" or "worst in history."
We have hundreds of members from Houston area which was hit by "worst ever" biblical rain and flood.
We keep in touch with our members and I am humbled to see so many guys from Houston soldier on and find time to spend here with us amid the ongoing recovery efforts in the area.
Florida members were also badly affected by strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. Some guys lost power and went offline for days.
Majority of our Mexico members are still offline nearly 24 hours after 7.1 earthquake that flattened hundreds of buildings and killed more than 300 people.
Members in Spain and Portugal experienced extreme heat in July and a wildfire in June killed 63 people in Portugal.
2017 will go down in history as one of the worst years for natural disasters.
2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season may turn out to be both the most active hurricane season on record and most destructive.
Several Caribbean islands were flattened by Category 5 hurricanes Irma and Maria.
In 2017 British Columbia experienced the worst wildfire season on record 894,941 hectares of forest were burnt.
In Bulgaria a massive wildfire burnt out of control for weeks in August destroying thousands of pine trees that take centuries to grow. The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer. All this has major impacts on extreme weather patterns much further south due to changes in the jet stream. Floods, heatwaves and severe winters in Europe, Asia and North America have all been linked to the Arctic meltdown.
[SUP]A wildfire burns on a mountain in the distance east of Cache Creek, B.C., in the early-morning hours of July 10, 2017.
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