Every year in the world there is a huge number of natural disasters, and almost every time the elements inflict multimillion-dollar losses to insurance companies and the treasury of states. Homes, infrastructure, people and cars suffer from the elements. The fact that the elements are doing with the latter will be discussed.
1. Hurricane "Harvey"
Hurricane Harvey was one of the saddest for motorists in 2017. The elements destroyed more than 1 million cars. However, the lion's share of the car was still saved, restored and even sold on the secondary market.
2. Hurricane Irma
How many cars were damaged as a result of the sad harvest of Hurricane Irma in 2017, experts still calculate. On the island of Saint-Martin alone, more than 200 cars have been scrapped.
3. Earthquake in central Italy
At the end of last summer, the center of Italy was overtaken by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 points. The disaster claimed the lives of several hundred people, caused billions of dollars in damage due to the destruction of infrastructure and buried over 5 thousand cars.
4. Eruption of St. Helens volcano
A volcanic eruption near Seattle in 1980. Not a single car remained within a radius of 15 kilometers from the vent. However, 350 cars burned with lava is nothing compared to 250 destroyed houses, 300 km of destroyed roadways and 57 missing locals.
5. Mudflow at Tehachapi
The consequences of a powerful mudflow in the Californian mountains. Thanks to a miracle, there were no human casualties in this incident. The same cannot be said for hundreds of wrecked and broken cars.
6. Landslide in Baltimore
In April 2014, a landslide occurred in Baltimore. It was caused by rain, which poured non-stop for 2 days. Several cars were buried in a clay and sand trap.
7. Flood in Fall River
Flooding in Fall Virever in 2012, provoked by prolonged rains and resulting from the overflow of the river of the same name. The police told about almost a hundred cars drowned right in the streets.
8. Tsunami at Ishinomaki
This is not an installation by a contemporary artist, but the aftermath of the tsunami in the Japanese city of Ishinomaki, which occurred as a result of a 9.0 magnitude underwater earthquake. The disaster destroyed 22 thousand houses, tens of thousands of people, and also damaged 25 thousand cars. Slightly less than half of them were no longer subject to restoration.
9. Wildfire in Portugal
Too wet? Here are the aftermath of a wildfire in Portugal last summer. Hundreds of cars burned down in it and at least 63 people died.
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