Chattanooga is home to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) and Chattanooga State Community College.
The Sunshine State has been pummeled by dozens of tropical storm systems since the 1950s -- none worse than Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The Category 5 hurricane with gusts of more than 200 mph held the title as the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Severe freezes have been disastrous for Florida farming on multiple occasions.
Exxon Valdez disaster In 1989 an oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez, ran aground off the Alaskan coast, releasing crude oil into the sea, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. At four minutes past midnight on March the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska.