RSSInteresting Article On Damage By Hurricanes
J.J. Jackson* | July 12, 2007 |
I really did find this fascinating, how extrapolating the devastation of previous storms to modern day dollars and population figures yields results that show storms like Katrina and the damage they cause is not unprecedented:
If the Great Storm of 1900 had hit Galveston two years ago, it would have inflicted $72 billion in damage, nearly as much as Hurricane Katrina, researchers say.Already the country’s deadliest hurricane with an estimated 8,000 deaths, the 1900 storm also would rank as the nation’s third costliest, say hurricane scientists who sought to gauge the economic damage that historic storms would have caused if they had occurred in 2005.
Under the new analysis, which adjusted for inflation, population and coastal development, Hurricane Katrina and its $81 billion cost ranked second to the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, which caused damage estimated at almost $140 billion. Another Galveston hurricane, in 1915, ranked fourth with $57 billion in damage.
Put simply, the devastation wrought by Katrina in 2005 was not unprecedented.
That’s significant in an era when some blame global warming for catastrophic hurricanes. The research concludes that economic damage from hurricanes, after being adjusted, has remained relatively constant during the last century.
Like the story says, we often hear about how because of Global Warming storms are getting worse. Well, that argument may be becoming dead in the water.
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