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.”