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WEATHER DISCOVERY
The century came to a close with an upsurge of The Hubble Telescope, Earth's
natural disasters. Hurricane Floyd caused $4.2 billion orbiting eye to the heavens
worth of damage on the East Coast while snowstorms beamed back pictures of new
crippled regions of the Northeast and Midwest. planets and nebulas, while
Internationally, earthquakes killed thousands in Turkey, kinks in the NASA Mars Polar
Columbia and Taiwan. Lander mission delayed hopes
of discovering more about
MILLENNIUM the mysterious red planet.
While some stockpiled Y2K supplies and GOODBYE
safeguarded their computers against the As we said goodbye to the century, we also said
"millennium bug;' others rang in the new
century with fireworks, parties and goodbye to some of the world's most beloved
religious celebrations. While merchandise celebrities. John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed in a
private plane crash while Charles Schulz passed
branding the date 01.01.00 filled stores, " ��
millennium countdown clocks were seen away on the night before his last Peanuts comic
everywhere from billboards to post offices. strip was to be published in Sunday papers around
the world. Sports legends Walter Payton, Joe
DiMaggio and Tom Landry also left us this year.
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