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523.6 inches of rainfall a year, or more than 40 feet (13 meters) fall in the wettest place on earth - Lloro, Colombia. That’s about 10 times more than fairly wet major cities in Europe or the United States.
6,000 people were killed in Galveston, Texas in the year 1900 during what is known as the deadliest hurricane ever to strike the United States.
$18 billion in damage, as a result of the costliest flood in U.S. history, occurred in the Midwest in 1993.
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