Weather: and it cost us billions..

[Penelope]

Table 1 Damage cost statistics from U.S. Billion-dollar disaster events (1980-2013) reflecting number of events, event frequency, CPI-adjusted loss (present year), percent of total losses and average event cost.

doesn't count what it cost for insurances.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/billions/docs/smith-and-matthews-2015.pdf

 

[Penelope]

Damages from Ike in U.S. coastal and inland areas are estimated at $30 billion (2008 USD), with additional damage of $7.3 billion in Cuba, $200 million in the Bahamas, and $500 million in the Turks and Caicos, amounting to a total of at least $38 billion in damage. At the time, the hurricane was the second-costliest in United States history.[5] The search-and-rescue operation after Ike was the largest search-and-rescue operation in Texas history.[6]
Hurricane Ike

 

[Penelope]

Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and between $97.4 billion to $145.5 billion in damage in late August 2005,

and republicans worry about abortions.

 

[Oddball]

Table 1 Damage cost statistics from U.S. Billion-dollar disaster events (1980-2013) reflecting number of events, event frequency, CPI-adjusted loss (present year), percent of total losses and average event cost.

doesn't count what it cost for insurances.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/billions/docs/smith-and-matthews-2015.pdf

Answer Toddster's question.