On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
> Right now Irene is causing major, major flooding all over New England... > much ado about very little? much ado about less than it might have been > but this was a long way from "very little" Specifically, ABC News is reporting direct losses of $7B - $13B. http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricanes/cleaning-irene-billion-damage/story?id=14399562 Prior to the hurricane, weather.com posted a list of the costliest US hurricanes, and a blog I read made it actually mean something by adjusting the values for inflation: http://www.env-econ.net/2011/07/hey-weathercom-it-isnt-hard-to-adjust-for-inflation.html The range of $7B - $13B puts Irene somewhere between the 13th and 6th costliest hurricane, in real terms, in US history. It could have been a lot worse, but it's not nothing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
