I don't remember the explanation all that well, but it was pretty technical stuff about cutting down all the forests resulting in the high and low pressure areas getting messed up, thus resulting in an unusually high amount of hurricanes and tornados. Or maybe it was just that flat areas near oceans tend to have nasty weather, and it wasn't as bad as it is now when the place was covered in trees. It sounded logical to me many years ago, and I still don't know jack about how the weather works.
You sound like you should definitely know about it if it's real, so I'll just forget all about it then. =P







