Sentences with phrase «higher hurricane damages»

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U.S. stocks rallied to record highs Monday as Hurricane Irma weakened without causing as much damage as many had feared, and a North Korean holiday passed without new missile launches.

Nova High was in need of some help after its baseball field and facilities suffered significant damage when Hurricane Irma swooped through South Florida more than a week ago.

Immediately after Hurricane Irma's eye passed over the Florida Keys, massive damage to the Lower and Middle Keys was apparent where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed by high winds and a huge storm surge.

U.S. stocks opened sharply higher on Monday as the damage from Hurricane Irma didn't appear to be as bad as feared.

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.

Estimates of the monetary value of the damages in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria reach as high as 95 billion dollars.

Cuomo says he does not want to scare people, but he says there is concern that the storm predicted for Wednesday and Thursday could be potentially significant, and he says there are worries that debris that still litters many streets and yards from Hurricane Sandy could become projectiles in high winds, and that already damaged homes could be further effected.

Damage from Hurricane Sandy took several wastewater treatment plants offline in New Jersey, and raw sewage carrying high levels of bacteria and viruses emptied into some waterways in the northern part of the state.

Warming temperatures and high precipitation levels contribute to destructive wildfires, extensive property damage and costly flooding, as was recently seen in northern California and in the aftermath of the rain and resulting flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

Higher sea levels allow storm surge to penetrate farther inland, meaning flood damage will increase even if hurricanes do not get any stronger.

A couple of weeks ago, the incredibly intense and powerful Hurricane Irma hit our home of Florida, causing high flooding and damage to southern region...

Sandra Bullock has long supported a charter high school in New Orleans, where her adopted son is from, that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and Viola Davis and Meryl Streep have both pitched in various amounts to the same charter school in Davis» Rhode Island hometown.

High Point, NC renters insurance generally includes coverage for damage from windstorms and hurricanes.

What most people actually mean when they ask that question is whether High Point renters insurance covers damage from wind as a result of a hurricane.

Living in a state with a high likelihood of tornadoes, lightning damage, and hurricanes along the coast increase your chances of having to file a claim, so it only makes sense to make sure you're adequately covered.

On the high end, Hurricane Andrew caused over $ 26 billion in damage to Florida's infrastructure in 1992.

But even if it's not required, we recommend you consider windstorm insurance if your house is located in a high - risk region, as direct damage from wind, hail and hurricanes are likely excluded from your home insurance policy.

MONTREAL — Canadian snowbirds who were lucky enough to escape property damage from hurricane Irma will still face higher costs as insurance providers jack up premiums and condo associations levy special assessments, say Florida insurance experts.

This is a HDR (high dynamic resolution) image taken in Belize October 2010 after hurricane Richard blew through Ambergris Caye and did considerable damage to the mainland.

In addition, the park boardwalk suffered severe structural damage from the severe flooding and high winds associated with Hurricane Irma.

Would you ascribe the damage to the reincarnated hurricane or to today's higher sea level, or some other cause?

The higher the sea levels, the more damage most land - falling hurricanes will do with storm surge alone (unless it is in an ocean area where sea levels are not rising as much as others).

To be sure, hurricane damage has high «availability» as a threat, since people can picture it more easily than extinction of some invisible mycorhyzae, but that doesn't make it irrelevant — it just means that some other threats are under - appreciated.

While many studies of the effects of global warming on hurricanes predict an increase in various metrics of Atlantic basin - wide activity, it is less clear that this signal will emerge from background noise in measures of hurricane damage, which depend largely on rare, high - intensity landfalling events and are thus highly volatile compared to basin - wide storm metrics.

A small hurricane with a high windspeed will probably do less damage than a huge hurricane that's spinning vast amounts of rain.

However, to support the assertion that global warming is responsible for a great deal of damage from such events, it is sufficient to show that such events have the «signature» of global warming — for example, that specific global warming - related factors such as abnormally high sea surface temperatures, elevated water vapor levels, and altered jet stream patterns contributed to making Hurricane Sandy what it was — even if those factors can not be precisely quantified.

While the changes in both the mean and higher order statistical moments (e.g., variance) of time - series of climate variables affect the frequency of relatively simple extremes (e.g., extreme high daily or monthly temperatures, damaging winds), changes in the frequency of more complex extremes are based on changes in the occurrence of complex atmospheric phenomena (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms).

We are lucky the damages weren't $ 50 - $ 100 billion higher; had Hurricane Irma tracked just 20 miles farther to the north, missing Cuba, I'm convinced it would have been a catastrophic Category 5 storm in South Florida.

The damage that hurricanes inflict is caused by high wind speeds, heavy rainfall, storm surge, and tornadoes.

Janet Larsen, «Hurricane Damages Soar to New Levels: Insurance Companies Abandoning Homeowners in High - Risk Coastal Areas,» Eco-Economy Update, 29 August 2006.

Scientists forecast that hurricane damage could increase dramatically in the US as high - income countries are also threatened by extreme weather events.

Never mind that the horrendous damage caused by Hurricane Sandy was undoubtedly made worse by the fact that sea levels in New York are now 20 cm higher than they were a century ago.

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

I gather the insurance companies that have far higher deductibles for hurricane damage than for storm damage eat the difference.

In many cases, it appears that possible negative impacts of climate change pose risks of higher total monetary damages in industrialised areas (i.e., currency valuations of property damages) but higher total human damages in less - developed areas (i.e., losses of life and dislocations of population)-- although such events as Hurricane Katrina show that there are exceptions (Section 7.4.2.5) for developed countries, and monetary damages in developing countries may represent a larger share of their GDP.

Living in a state with a high likelihood of tornadoes, lightning damage, and hurricanes along the coast increase your chances of having to file a claim, so it only makes sense to make sure you're adequately covered.

Windstorm Insurance is designed to provide protection against wind - generated damages, especially those created by hurricanes, cyclones, tempests, hail and high winds.

Whatever type of business you own in Randolph, you face an increased risk for expensive property damage due to heavy rains, winter storms and even hurricanes — and higher property insurance rates as a result.

In 2013, Hurricane Andrea wreaked havoc on the city, with high winds and torrential rainfall leaving many homes with serious damage.

While a Category 1 hurricane typically causes minimal damage and a Category 5 hurricane often causes catastrophic damage, these are relative terms because lower category storms sometimes inflict greater damage than higher category storms depending on where they strike and what hazards they carry along with them.

The sharply higher figure for Floridians is likely due to such regional risks as hurricanes, and to special coverage needs, such as mold damage insurance due to the state's high humidity.

In 19 states and the District of Columbia, insurance companies usually have a separate deductible for hurricanes and windstorms because they are at higher risk of damages from them.

Provided by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and available through independent agents, this policy provides coverage for flood damage related to high waters, hurricanes and excessive rain runoff.

High winds are the primary cause of hurricane - inflicted property damage.

Windstorm insurance covers damage from any high wind, not just hurricanes.

The official close to the hurricane season was on Monday, but even though there hasn't been one that has struck Florida in ten years, homeowners insurance rates remain high and many are wondering why they aren't falling due to the improvements in natural disaster damage.

The coverage may be excluded in certain parts of the Gulf Coast as well as areas that are at high risk of hurricane damage.

Not only can the high winds associated with these storms lead to extensive damage to property, but hurricanes and tropical storms also tend to spawn tornadoes and cause floods.

As a high risk hurricane zone, Lake Charles has a long history of major storms that caused significant damage to local homes.

In addition to its high risk of hurricane damage, Louisiana has a combination of other factors that boost car insurance rates.