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By Rami Abumuais & Mark Bowen
-1978 Very high amounts of rainfall throughout this year
-1981 Very low rainfall throughout this year
-August 21st, 1983 hottest day for the past 100 years reaching 110 degrees
-January 21, 1985 Coldest day in past 100 years at -34 degrees
-1989 Hurricane Hugo hit and brought plenty of high speed winds and rain
-1989 Aside from Hurricane Hugo's rain, the year was generally low in rainfall
-1999 Hurricane Dennis hit twice in a time span of 6 days
-2000 November, monderate drought through the entire month
-2000 Snowstorm hit leaving over 1 foot of snow
-1996 Huricane Fran hit, one of the most damaging hurricanes
-1996 Hurricane Bertah, altough it was only category one, it was still a major hurricane
-1998 Hurricane Bonnie hit with winds over 100mph
-2007 october extreme drought
-2007 december exceptional drought
-2012 very low rainfall through the whole year
-1954 Hurricane Hazel hits, one of the deadliest hurricane hits
-1959 RTP (Research Triangle Park)founded
-1962 Rachel Carson publishes "Silent Spring" about DDT
-1969 Wheeler Airlines is founded
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-1983 Cars began to have to be inspected for emissions
-1984 FHS moved to Durham making key changes to the environment (Forest History Society)
-1985 Hurricane Gloria Hit and effected a large portion of the east coast
-1998 Extremely large amount of precipitation through the year
-1999 Hurricane floyd dropped 13-16 inches of rain
-1999 hurricane floyd
-2001 February severe drought in this month aswell
-2002 January severe drought through the month
-2002 July extreme drought
-1990 EPA imposed limits of Diesel fuel sulfur to help buses meet emission standards
-1993 Hurricane emily hit the outer banks
-1994 EPA made regulations on gas to be reformulated to reduce emissions and ozone forming compounds.
-1970 EPA was founded, setting environmental restrictions
-1970 Clean Air Act, designed to reduce air pollution to benefit plants and humans
-1971 EPA begins testing cars for different emissions
-1975 Catalytic Converter was created, reducing all vehicle emissions