The financial impacts of fires, tropical storms, floods, droughts and crop freezes have quadrupled since 1980. And nowhere is immune to the threat of increasing weather extremes, made more likely by global warming. Laura alone is estimated to have caused anywhere from $4 billion to $12 billion in damages to Louisiana and Texas.
www.npr.org/sections/hurricane-laura-live-updates/2020/08/28/907133279/hurricane-laura-losses-include-10-deaths-up-to-12-billion-it-couldve-been-worse