Sentences with phrase «costly as the disasters»

Not exact matches

It could end up as the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history — and possibly the most lucrative, for those equipped to handle the cleanup and reconstruction.

Maria now ranks as the third - costliest weather and climate disaster on record for the nation and Irma ranks as the fifth - costliest.

With flooding continuing in Houston, plus more than a foot of rain likely still to come through Friday, predictions of damage have ranged as high as $ 100 billion, and Wall Street and Washington are braced for the repercussions of the costliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, or even terrorist attacks, can damage the data centers and the communication links between them, causing massive losses in data and costly disruptions.

In the 10 years since this deadly storm, which also came in as one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history, the nation's leaders and engineers still struggle to upgrade our preparedness

When explaining the importance of this work, Wehner believes that the big impact lies in assessing the impact of climate change as exemplified by the recent painful experiences of hurricanes Harvey (tied with hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record), Irma (the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region), and Maria (regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico).

No slouch in the animal welfare game, ADRF is known for their proactive approach to animals in need including funding surgeries too costly for other shelters, rescuing abandoned pets and livestock from disaster ravaged areas, connecting veterans suffering from PTSD with supports dogs, bringing an end to dog fighting as well as saving abandoned circus and theme park animals.

Between the shutdown of oil refineries and chemical plants, impaired roads and ports, and widespread damage to homes, businesses and cars, the economic toll from Hurricane Harvey is now being estimated as the second - costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, trailing only the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Since then, according to the Los Angeles Times, Plains All American Pipeline LP — the company responsible for the disaster — disclosed in its quarterly earnings in early August 2015 that the spill «may have been bigger and costlier than originally expected» and that «as many as 143,000 gallons of crude [oil] may have been spilled when the line ruptured.»

There have been 15 billion - dollar weather - related disasters in the U.S. in 2017, and the year may finish as the costliest on record.

2009 was Colorado's most costly severe weather season adding up to more than $ 1.4 billion in insured losses with one July storm ranking as the state's most expensive insured disaster in actual insurance claims paid out with insured losses totaling $ 767.6 million in claims ($ 850.8 million in 2015 dollars).

Flood insurance is never a bad idea; the Insurance Information Institute cites it as the most common and costly natural disaster in the US.