Is there a $500 billion hurricane on the horizon?
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- Is there a $500 billion hurricane on the horizon?
- Hurricane losses escalate as people flock to coasts
- Lincoln County girls eliminate Hurricane
Is there a $500 billion hurricane on the horizon?
USA Today – Feb 22, 2008
Scientists believe the Atlantic basin entered a new era of more frequent hurricanes around 1995 which could last 25 to 40 years. The study found that the 1926 Miami hurricane would have caused the largest losses in history — $140 billion to $157 billion — if it struck today accounting for inflation and massive building along the Miami coastline in the last 80 years. That toll would have far exceeded the current costliest hurricane Katrina which killed 1500 people when it swamped New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico coast in 2005 causing $81 billion in damage. “There is nothing in the U. hurricane damage record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase in destruction along our coasts” Chris Landsea one of the study’s authors and a leading skeptic on the influence global warming may have on hurricanes said in a statement.
Hurricane losses escalate as people flock to coasts
Denver Post – Feb 22, 2008
a political science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. “As people continue to flock to the nation’s coasts and bring with them ever more personal wealth losses will continue to increase” Pielke and his colleagues wrote in the February issue of Natural Hazards Review. Rapid growth along the hurricane-prone coasts of Florida Louisiana Texas and other eastern seaboard states is growing at a rate likely to place “severe burdens on society” unless development is limited or building codes strengthened the researchers concluded. Other researchers studying hurricanes — not just those that hit U. coastlines — have reported an increase in hurricane intensity over time which has been attributed to warmer oceans and climate change. Pielke’s team found no apparent increase intensity of landfalling hurricanes but reported that their “normalized” data would not be the best place to find such trends as “such changes are best explored using geophysical data directly.
Lincoln County girls eliminate Hurricane
Daily Mail – Charleston – Feb 22, 2008
Friday February 22 2008 Lincoln County girls eliminate Hurricane Prep basketball roundup by From staff reports Chelsea Caldwell scored a game-high 26 points and pulled down 15 rebounds Thursday night as Lincoln County (13-11) defeated Hurricane 51-40 in the Class AAA Region 8 section 1 final at Cabell Midland. The victory puts the Panthers in the Region 8 championship game on Tuesday against Huntington at Hurricane. Redskins' sophomore guard Skye Smith led an 8-0 run early in the fourth quarter that pulled Hurricane to within four points. But the point guard fouled out and the Hurricane rally stalled. Sophomore Jordan Brock led Hurricane (11-12) with 10 points.