Natural Disasters Hit 90 Year High
According to Accuweather, natural disasters reached a nine decade high last year. The weather service uses a very broad definition.
“The catastrophic wildfires burning in Southern California combined with destructive hurricane impacts last year have been the worst series of natural disasters in America since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s,” AccuWeather Founder and Executive Chairman Dr. Joel N. Myers said. Myers is 85 years old.
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*How People Prepare For Disasters
Accuweather puts the total economic loss last year at $693 billion and $799 billion. This includes future financial effects. “AccuWeather experts consider the costs of immediate healthcare, long-term physical and mental healthcare, the financial impacts of excess deaths in the years following a disaster, and dozens of additional factors, to provide a more holistic and comprehensive scope of the long-term financial impacts.”
No Insurance
Among the most critical future costs are insurance. Some areas in California and Florida are uninsurable. This means many residents will move because they cannot financially face a total loss.
Although the AccuWeather analysis focuses on California and Florida, there was great destruction in the middle of America because of thunder storms, hail and floods.
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