Extreme weather events have shaped U.S. history since the country's inception.

From George Washington crossing the Delaware River in freezing cold weather to recent exterme weather events resulting from climate change, this story reocounts notable weather events during the United States' first 250 years.

"'Our weather does not exist in a vacuum,' Sara Grossman, an associate professor of environmental studies at Bryn Mawr College, told ABC News. It is deeply connected to the activities we undertake as a species, from farming practices in the 1930s, to the overconsumption of fossil fuels, and the building [of] residential homes on former marshy coastlines."