Southern Winter Storm To Cost $15 Billion
A winter storm expected to spread from southern Virginia to south of Houston will spread some blizzard like conditions, and cold which is 25 degrees below historic averages. AccuWeather forecasts the damage from this will be between $14 billion and $17 billion.
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Storms of this nature almost never happen in the deep South. They affect a wide number of businesses from citrus growth to air travel to utilities. A number of cities and towns in the region have no equipment to move snow or budgets for snow removal.
According to Accuweather, the costs will include airlines, economic losses, business disruption, and supply chain and shipping logistics. The forecast also considers future economic losses. “This has been the worst winter storm to hit the Gulf Coast in decades. Travel was essentially shut down along several stretches of the I-10 corridor between Houston and New Orleans that are critical for commerce,” AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter said.
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The destruction comes after one of the worst hurricane seasons on record, which was primarily brought on by extremely high temperatures in the Atlantic and Gulf waters. Hurricane Beryl, which at one point was a Category 5 hurricane, hit Houston in early July. Hurricanes Helene and Milton destroyed large parts of Florida’s west coast, and Helene moved inland and hammered much of weather North Carolina
It is ironic that the southern US had been hit by storms, but very cold and very hot, within a single year.
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