re: #266 researchok

So, they got screwed by Sandy. I hadn’t caught how badly.

Apparently the damage estimates are clicking up.

Now at $63 Billion, with 131 dead. Ike killed 135 in the US (112 dead, 23 still missing), meaning Sandy came close to toppling Ike for the Worst since Katrina Award (Which, counting the still not found missing, is close to 2,000).

I think Sandy will end up toppling Katrina vis-a-vis cost. We got our asses handed to us by Sandy.