December 2, 1990

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1990, the US Midwest prepared for a massive earthquake that was predicted to happen by American climatologist and author Iben Browning, who held 90 patents and had authored four books, one of which was on climate change. He predicted that an earthquake would be triggered by the New Madrid fault on December 2 to December 3 and would cause historic damage in the American Midwest. It didn’t happen. American psychic Sylvia Browne gloated that it didn’t take multiple science degrees for her to be wrong in her predictions, just a fifth of jack and an old typewriter that had the letter ‘q’ missing.

About Joel Byers

Born in North Georgia and educated at some very fine public institutions. Real education started after graduating from college and then getting married and raising two boys. Has the ability to see the funny and absurd in most things and will always remark on it, even if it means getting the stink-eye from his victims.
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