Extreme Weather, Extreme Costs – Center for American Progress
See also: “Interactive: $1 Billion U.S. Extreme Storm Disasters, 2011–2017[1]” Five years ago, Superstorm Sandy cut a destructive path up the East Coast of the United States, taking 117 lives, leaving thousands of people homeless, and causing more than $71 billion in damage. Experts described it as a 1-in-260-year event, meaning that a storm of that caliber had a 0.3 percent...
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