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Weather and climate disasters cost the U.S. a record $306 billion in 2017
A disastrous hurricane season combined with wildfires and other extreme weather events inflicted a record-setting toll on the U.S. in 2017, with 16 billion-dollar weather and climate events costing a total of $306 billion in damage. These events caus…
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The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends on Thursday, will go down as one of the most expensive in American history. The notorious storms of 2017 — hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria — may have had innocuous names. However, they flooded America’s fourth-largest metropolis, cut a swath of destruction across the Caribbean before hitting Florida, and cut off power to the entire island of Puerto Rico, respectively.
The costs of the storms that hit the U.S. are still being tallied, with some analysts claiming that it was the most expensive hurricane season on record. Steve Bowen, a meteorologist with the insurance company AonBenfield, said that his company’s calculations show that direct damage and business interruption losses from 2017’s many storms will put 2017 in second place, behind 2005, once adjusted for inflation. Read more…
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Sony is giving a free month of PlayStation Plus to victims of natural disasters
After a handful of natural disasters caused damage and devastation around the globe these past few months, Sony decided to ease some PlayStation players’ woes.
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Giant crowd of Astros fans saving a woman’s hat is Houston at its best
I was born in LA. One of my earliest memories is Kirk Gibson’s legendary home run in 1988. And I was heartbroken when the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Astros this year.
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Giant crowd of Astros fans saving a woman’s hat is Houston at its best
I was born in LA. One of my earliest memories is Kirk Gibson’s legendary home run in 1988. And I was heartbroken when the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Astros this year.
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