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CHAD MEYERS COUNTS DOWN THE TOP
TEN.
>> 2013 WAS QUITE A YEAR
WEATHERWISE.
LET'S GO TO THE TOP TEN WEATHER
STORIES RIGHT NOW.
WE'LL START AT NUMBER TEN IN
MEXICO.
TWIN HURRICANES HITTING THAT
COUNTRY, ONE FROM THE GULF OF
MEXICO, THE OTHER FROM THE
PACIFIC.
FIVE BILLION IN DAMAGE, MORE
THAN 100 PEOPLE KILLED IN
FLOODING.
TO SOUTH DAKOTA, 12 DAYS INTO
AUTUMN.
WE'RE LOOKING AT FOUR FEET OF
SNOW, 70-MILE-PER-HOUR WINDS.
20,000 CATTLE WERE KILLED IN
THIS STORM AS RANCHERS WERE
CAUGHT OFF GUARD.
NOW TO THE NORTHEAST.
THE NOR'EASTER A BIG STORM BACK
IN FEBRUARY.
3-MILE-PER-HOUR WINDS AT ONE
POINT, BUT THE PRESSURE WAS
EQUAL TO A CATEGORY 2 HURRICANE.
NOW TO ARIZONA WHERE THE
WILDFIRES STRUCK.
LIGHTNING STRIKE NORTH OF
PHOENIX CREATED THIS WILDFIRE.
IT GREW TO 6,000 ACRES.
THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS
WERE SENT IN, THE WIND SHIFTED
DIRECTIONS ON THEM AND BLEW THE
FIRE RIGHT BACK AT THOSE
FIREFIGHTERS.
19 DIED THAT DAY.
THAT'S THE LARGEST LOSS OF LIFE
FROM FIREFIGHTERS SINCE 9/11.
TO EAST ASIA RIGHT HERE.
BIG DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE, VERY
POPULATED AREA HERE, SHANGHAI
INTO SHAMANTO JAPAN, 106
DEGREES.
IT'S NEVER BEEN THAT HOT.
NO CITY IN JAPAN HAD EVER BEEN
THAT HOW THE AS LONG AS THEY
WERE KEEPING RECORDS.
NOW TO OKLAHOMA CITY.
A 210-MILE-PER-HOUR TORNADO AN
EF-5 HEADED TO MOORE, OKLAHOMA.
RIGHT HERE AND IT WAS COMING IN
FROM THE WEST AND WE KNEW IT WAS
MOVING INTO A POPULATED AREA.
WE WATCHED IT LIVE ONC NN FROM
OUR LOCAL AFFILIATES AND
BROADCAST IT LIVE TO THE WORLD.
AND THAT SCHOOL IS PLAZA TOWERS.
IT TOOK A DIRECT HIT.
SEVEN CHILDREN WERE KILLED IN
THAT SCHOOL.
BUT LOOK AT THE DAMAGE THAT THAT
SCHOOL HAD.
>>> NOW ON TO EL RENO.
I WAS THERE 11 DAYS LATER.
THIS IS A 2.6 MILE WIDE TORNADO
THAT MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST FOR
A WHILE.
BUT WHEN IT GOT VERY STRONG,
ALMOST 300 MILES PER HOUR WITH
SOME MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR UNITS,
IT TURNED TO THE LEFT, CAUGHT AN
AWFUL LOT OF STORM CHASERS OUT
OF WHERE THEY SHOULD BE IN A
VERY BAD POSITION.
THAT'S WHERE THE STORM SHOULD
HAVE GONE.
IT DIDN'T DO THAT.
IT TURNED TO THE LEFT AND THE
STORM CHASERS WERE RIGHT THERE.
IN FACT, EVEN THE WEATHER
CHANNEL WAS RIGHT THERE.
THEIR STORM CHASE VEHICLE WAS
HIT BY THIS TORNADO.
BUT SADLY, TIM SA MAYOR RUSS AND
TWO OTHER CHASERS WERE KILLED IN
THAT VEHICLE RIGHT THERE AS THE
TORNADO OVERTOOK THEM.
>>> COLORADO FLASH FLOODS.
THIS IS A ONCE IN A 1,000 YEAR
FLOOD.
17 INCHES OF RAIN IN EIGHT DAYS.
NINE INCHES OF RAIN IN 24 HOURS.
WHEN YOU GET THAT KIND OF RAIN
IN THE MOUNTAINS, IT'S GOING TO
RUN OFF.
IT CAN'T ALL SOAK IN.
SO THE RAIN CAME DOWN AND RAN
DOWN THE MOUNTAINS AND WASHED
AWAY TOWNS, WASHED AWAY BRIDGES
AND ROADS AND THERE WAS
SIGNIFICANT DANIEL ALL THE WAY
INTO BOULDER.
ALSO HAD VERY EFFECTIVE VIDEO.
WE WATCHED THIS JUST FOR HOUR AS
THEY RESCUED PEOPLE OUT OF SOME
OF THESE CREEKS AND STREAMS,
THESE HIGH WATER RESCUES WENT ON
FOR A COUPLE DAYS.
NOW TO INDIA.
15 INCHES OF RAIN IN 24 HOURS.
AND LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
THESE TOWNS WERE EATEN ALIVE BY
THE WATER.
WASHED AWAY INTO THE RIVERS
HERE.
ONE BUILDING AFTER ANOTHER.
THERE WERE RELIGIOUS PILGRIMS IN
THE AREA, AS WELL.
AND MORE THAN 5,000 OF THEM
DIED.
>>> NOW ON TO EUROPE.
THIS ISSENT A FLASH FLOOD LIKE
WE'VE JUST SEEN THE PAST TWO.
THIS IS A LONG-TERM RAIN EVENT.
IT RAINS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND
THE PLAINS AND IT ALL GETS DOWN
INTO THE RIVERS.
AND THE RIVERS THERE IN EUROPE
WENT UP.
THE DANUBE, THE CHINA, THE ELB
AU AT HISTORIC LEVELS.
THEY'VE BEEN KEEPING RECORDS FOR
SOME OF THESE SINCE 1501, EVEN
BROKE THOSE RIVERS, VIENNA,
BUDAPEST, PRAG ALL HIT BY THE
FLOOD.
SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN, THE
STRONGEST STORM TO EVER MAKE
LANDFALL IN RECENT HISTORY.
A 200-MILE-PER-HOUR MONSTER
SUPER TYPHOON.
WE HAD 20-FOOT STORM SURGE.
AN END COOPER WAS THERE, 6,000
PEOPLE DIED AS A
200-MILE-PER-HOUR WIND ROLLED
THROUGH TACLOBAN.
ALL OF THIS HAPPENED IN A YEAR
THAT THE IPCC PUT OUT THEIR
CLIMATE REPORT.
THOSE ARE THE CLIMATE GURUS FOR
THE UNITED NATIONS AND THEY SAY
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE HEAT
WAVES IN FUTURE.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE FLOODS
AND MORE DROUGHT BECAUSE OF