Why did more than 100,000 people flee their homes in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1979?
-A race riot in downtown Harrisburg got out of control.
-The reactor core at a nearby nuclear plant nearly melted down.
-False reports about a hurricane prompted a panic.
-A local evangelist preacher predicted the end of the world that day.
The reactor core at a nearby nuclear plant nearly melted down.
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More than __________ people died in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina
A) 2,000 B) 2,500 C) 1,800 D) 3,000