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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: longnshort who wrote (46945)6/26/2013 10:25:15 AM
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Sandy peaked at Cat3, by the time in hit the US shore it was 1 or 2.

due to the fact more people are now living in america and more people are living near the ocean

And when they say storms caused "record damage", they often are measuring in dollars, and nominal dollars at that. Even real dollar damage would go up with the factors you mention and with a growing economy generally creating more and more valuable stuff to damage, but if you don't account for inflation, at some future point a small storm could "cause more damage" then Katrina and Sandy put together.
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