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...When reading about this in recent days I too found myself thinking of New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina....
...The study linked the ocean temperature drop during Hurricane Harvey with the subsequent rainfall. “Harvey could not have produced so much rain without human-induced climate change,” it concluded....
...Outdated infrastructure is another key failure in many water and weather disasters, such as floods and fires from the UK to Turkey through to the US suffering hurricanes Katrina (2005), Harvey (2017) and...
...In 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped nearly 4 feet of water while it lingered for days around Houston, flooding neighbourhoods and causing environmental damage as a chemical plant exploded....
...That would make it one of the most expensive events ever for the industry, on a par with the costs of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
...The Houston branch of the Dallas Fed replicated the system during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Just two weeks after Harvey came Hurricane Maria....
...Katrina Lindsay’s design sits them all beneath slow-moving stormclouds and canopies of still stars. But Levy’s story isn’t really shaped for the stage....
...Experts estimate it would result in the loss of trillions of dollars in economic value and millions of American lives — many times greater than the losses from Hurricanes Harvey, Sandy and Katrina combined...
...At an estimated $90bn, the cost of the damage was third-highest in the history of tropical cyclones, after Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey....
...NFIP paid out $8.7bn last year after hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria....
...The experience of Katrina, the only precedent, suggests that Harvey need not be a big market event....
...That would put the incident among the five worst disasters going back to the 1980s, ranking it behind events such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Super Storm Sandy in 2012....
...Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria caused $93bn of insured losses, the highest figure since hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma led to almost $112bn of insured losses in 2005....
...the slow Katrina response....
...This would put Harvey in the top ten costliest storms, but still well below the $159 billion estimated damage from Katrina. The midpoint of the $10-$20 billion range is about 0.1%-pt of GDP....
...At its large Galveston Bay refinery near Houston, the control centre was built to withstand winds from a Category 5 hurricane, as strong as Katrina and stronger than Harvey when it made landfall....
...There was Katrina in New Orleans; Hurricane Ike that tore through Galveston; and tropical storm Allison, which touched Texas in 2001. Harvey, she says, is different....
...Estimates from Moody’s Analytics put the total physical damage from Harvey and Irma at $150bn-$200bn — comparable to that following Katrina....
...“Some of the litigation that came out of Katrina is still going on,” he said....
...While they complain that it's been much slower than the response to Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in Florida and Texas, they are cognizant that more than 9,000 personnel from the...
...Like Katrina, Harvey shows how exposed the US energy sector remains to the risk of weather disruptions....
...Everyone remembers hurricane Katrina, today a byword for US natural disasters. Fewer will recall Ike in 2008, which remains the worst hurricane to hit Texas in living memory....
...Cox Automotive has estimated that 300,000 to 500,000 cars and trucks could be lost due to the flooding, based on figures for vehicles lost during hurricanes Katrina and Sandy....
...He predicted an uptick in sales similar to what happened after Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
...Only 2005 — when Hurricane Katrina hit the US — and 2011 — when there were earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand — were more costly....
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