Many people even in the United States, he said, are still under the mistaken impression that the trade center attack damaged much of the city.
Last month, Tushka, Okla., with a population of 312, was hit by a tornado that damaged much of the town, killed two people and virtually destroyed its school.
This pattern of acute decline might have continued indefinitely, but, in September, Hurricane Maria damaged much of the island's infrastructure, and left a large portion of the population without power or water.
The house, which has a total of five available rooms, is set to reopen this week after having been closed for renovations after an accidental fire damaged much of the building.
In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami, triggered by a massive undersea earthquake west of Sumatra, destroyed or heavily damaged much of the city and killed tens of thousands of people.
Like West Side, Central Synagogue, which is at East 55th Street and Lexington Avenue, was being renovated when on Aug. 28, 1998, fire badly damaged much of the interior of the Moorish-Revival temple.
Pointing out the single remaining image of his print-making installation, Alex Kuusik explains that he nearly didn't take any photographs of his work the night before the fire, which started in the basement of the Mackintosh building just before lunchtime on Friday 23 May, damaged much of the west wing of the A-listed building, where students were preparing for their degree show.
Damage to crops was also significant as the storm damaged much of the banana and pandanus harvests.
Percy also damaged much of the coconut harvest and 50% of the livestock were killed by the cyclone.
