Water weighs 62.4 lbs. Tsunamis hit Japan more than anywhere else in the world. You would need to melt 20 to 40 inches of dry snow in order to equal one inch of rain. The highest winds ever recorded in the world were 231 mph, recorded atop of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane to occur in this century occurred in the year 1900 in Galveston, Texas claiming 6,000 lives.
Strong Tornadoes can lift cars and trains off of the ground.
Lightning has been known to kill people talking on the telephone. Lightning causes almost twice as many deaths as a tornado, but a tornado causes much more property damage.