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...in Puerto Rico to the tornadoes I’ve had to endure in Tennessee — but I am told that this newsletter has a word limit....
...Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, also caught scientists by surprise when it escalated into a Category 5 storm in just 24 hours....
...The Houston branch of the Dallas Fed replicated the system during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Just two weeks after Harvey came Hurricane Maria....
...Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in the year before it indiscriminately demolished the homes, people and infrastructure when they hit Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, respectively....
...At an estimated $90bn, the cost of the damage was third-highest in the history of tropical cyclones, after Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey....
...We already know what a large-scale blackout on US soil could look like: in September last year, when Hurricane Maria struck the US territory of Puerto Rico, the entire island lost power....
...NFIP paid out $8.7bn last year after hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria....
...The Jones Act had been suspended earlier this month to ease distribution of fuel supplies amid hits to the US mainland by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Image source: Associated Press...
...Hurricane Harvey devastated 203,000 homes in Houston last year. Some 22,000 Puerto Rican citizens still live without electricity after Hurricane Maria brought down the island’s entire grid....
...who claim it has been tardier than those seen after hurricanes Harvey and Irma hit Texas and Florida on the US mainland....
...“It is not like Texas being hit by Harvey where you stop for a while and get a black eye. This place was not functioning before and it is even less functional now....
...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...
...The rapid recoveries of the Texas energy industry after Hurricane Harvey, and of the Florida electric grid after Hurricane Irma were possible thanks to far better built assets and much more preparation....
...Democratic congressional leaders have said they will only approve supplemental aid packages for states hit by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma if those packages also include support for Puerto Rico in the wake...
...President Donald Trump explains the slow pace of relief efforts compared with the response on the US mainland to both Maria and earlier Hurricane Harvey when it hit Texas, by stating the obvious....
...“I don’t remember the president telling Texas that they threw our budget out of whack after Harvey. Or Florida after Irma.”...
...Most of the criticism of the president has focused on him displaying a more muted sense of urgency toward the crisis than he did after hurricanes Harvey and Irma hit Texas and Florida over the summer....
...Shares in US airline operators took flight on Tuesday after United Continental Holdings and American Airlines delivered a more optimistic outlook for the third quarter despite the impact of Hurricanes Harvey...
...Harvey, now downgraded to a tropical depression, ravaged the US Gulf coast, causing catastrophic flooding and killing dozens of people....
...Essentra added that its operations in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico also suffered “minor” disruptions from the earlier hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which it said will hit profits by between £0.5m and £1m...
...The latest storm follows what has already been a destructive hurricane season, with Harvey, Irma and Maria bringing flooding and severe wind damage to parts of Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico....
...“We have already paid out £164m on Harvey and £242m on Irma.”...
...Rosselló administration is expected to leverage that goodwill as it lobbies for an aid package, with one congressional aide saying a first tranche covering the financial costs of all three recent storms, Harvey...
...Puerto Rico....
...The storm could hit Florida this weekend after raking over Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti....
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