Attention Economy


Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Estimating Cost of Weather Disasters

A $150 Billion Misfire: How Disaster Models Got Irma Wrong              
“Twenty miles may have made a $150 billion difference.
Estimates for the damage Hurricane Irma would inflict on Florida kept mounting as it made its devastating sweep across the Caribbean. It was poised to be the costliest U.S. storm on record. Then something called the Bermuda High intervened and tripped it up.”