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Natural disasters are not equal opportunity calamities. A Small Business Administration analysis found that about 90 percent of the country’s damage costs from natural disasters happen in ZIP codes with less than 20 percent of the country’s population.

If you’re in the mood to see what that looks like on a map — or want advice of where not to move — the New York Times has done yeoman’s work in compiling more than a decade of disaster data. [The New York Times]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/2...cid=SigDig




The effects of global warming on individual storms have been difficult to determine, scientists say, because there are only about a dozen observed even in an active season.


But scientists also contend that climate change is expected to lead to stronger, wetter hurricanes over all. It has also made them more destructive, Dr. Klotzbach said. Because global sea levels have risen, hurricanes create storm surges that go further inland, flooding homes and businesses.

“You can build your house to withstand pretty much any wind, but the surge is what will get you,” he said.

Change in global sea level since 1993

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