The USA led the world in catastrophes last year.
Racking up an overall damage cost of $16.5 billion, the devastating and deadly Camp Fire that ravaged California in November was the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2018. The data come from a report issued Tuesday by Munich Re, a reinsurance firm.
In second and third place last year were Hurricanes Michael ($16 billion) and Florence ($14 billion). Florence dumped heavy rain across the Carolinas in September, and Michael tore into the Florida Panhandle in October.
Michael, which had a wind speed of 155 mph at landfall, was the fourth-strongest hurricane on record to hit the USA. It reduced the small town of Mexico Beach, Florida, to rubble.
The disastrous Camp Fire, California’s deadliest on record with 86 fatalities, stood out for its ferocity: “Such massive wildfires appear to be occurring more frequently as a result of climate change,” said Munich Re’s Torsten Jeworrek. “Action is urgently needed on building codes and land use to help prevent losses.”
Thousands of homes and cars were gutted by fire; the town of Paradise was almost entirely destroyed.
Ernst Rauch, Munich Re’s head of climate and geosciences, said, “Our data shows that the losses from wildfires in California have risen dramatically in recent years. At the same time, we have experienced a significant increase in hot, dry summers, which has been a major factor in the formation of wildfires. Many scientists see a link between these developments and advancing climate change.”
As for the hurricanes, since most of the property destroyed by Michael was caused by wind, a large part of the damage was insured. Since the destruction from Florence was due to rain and floods, a large portion of the damage was not insured. Flooding is not normally covered under standard homeowners’ insurance policies in the USA.
The total cost for all the natural catastrophes globally in 2018 was $160 billion. Though far below the extreme total of $350 billion in 2017, it’s above the long-term average of $140 billion.
Of course, Jim can pick his posts from any source that he likes, but USA Today? I am glad that the article quoted that bastion of truthiness Munich Re. (Who knew that truthiness was a word now?) I have lived in CA almost 30 years. The fires happen every year just like clockwork – in the fall starts the Santa Ana winds and all it takes is a hot muffler to fall off a car at 70 mph or a careless cigarette tossed to the side of the trail. Sometimes we see the power lines shaking so violently that the transformers blow. That is always exciting. But it’s not unusual. It happens every year and a few people die, usually because they were either too old or ill to run, or too stupid to run, and a lot of houses get burned down. They will all get rebuilt.
I have not lived in Florida, or any of the southern coastal states, but I have lived for a long time in Baltimore, Philly, and Boston. By the time we got the hurricanes they were just big blows. Some tree’s fell down and everything got wet. Hell, we buried my mother right in the middle of Hurricane Sandy. At the shore houses were being blown over, subways were getting flooded, and we (a bunch of idiots) were standing out in a cemetery trying to keep our umbrellas from blowing out of our hands. Every year, just like with the fires, the hurricanes make landfall in Florida. Every time they do, shit get’s blown down. All the stuff that gets blown down gets rebuilt by all of the people who were smart enough to run. The ones who weren’t smart enough to run don’t get to rebuild.
The only factor in the cost of the repairs is the value of the properties that get blown down or burned. If the “disaster” takes out an expensive place the cost is high. If it misses all the expensive places the cost isn’t so high. Stating that this year was a record for loses most likely simply reflects the annual increases in the value of the properties which get burned down or blown away.
Luck of the draw.
Wondering why the adjacent trees aren’t burned down in the Camp Fire pic at the top.
Hmmm.
Thats the one. Cars burnt, trees not. Houses gone. Bushes remain.
THE CAMPFIRE 2018, DEW WEAPONS AND WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING
• Homes and cars spontaneously combusting???
• Temperatures at foundry level, twice the level of open fires, melting metal???
• Home and businesses imploded yet the trees around them untouched???
MASS MURDER OF AMERICANS!
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me its frigg’in raining.
I posted on this and took some heat and I don’t give a shit! Bring it on.
Those of you who don’t want to believe your own eyes…after watching this video just stick your head back in the sand and pray they don’t decide to burn you and your family alive.
If this is true do you think this will never reach you?
DEW you feel lucky?
Well DEW you???
The trees stood but the porcelain toilets and bathtubs are gone. When have you ever seen a fire act like that? It wasn’t a natural fire. At least three people that I’m aware of have phone video of blue laser light in the area of the fires- direct energy weapons. This is in line with the UN’s Agenda 21- to rewild California by getting the people off the land.
I’m still surprised that there isn’t more of a national outcry on these attacks after the videos, by dozens of solid people, with hard identical evidence, leading to stark – ugly – horrific questions that have been floating around for years has not gathered more momentum.
There is no defense against this. The threat and the implications are past chilling.
I’ll overreact when the totals reach into the 10s of trillions.
A sign of our time. Our great loss is measured in dollars as opposed to human suffering or loss of life.
We got more than enuf people.
Like the old joke on the job : “We can get another man” !
It’s the costliest only when measured in fiat, fake, monopoly, artificial funny money.
IT HAD TO BE DEW – CANADA – SOUTH CAROLINA COLORADO – CHINA – CALIFORNIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_dQitRLQwI
THIS MEANS WAR!!! / DIRECTED ENERGY (DEW) / AGENDA 21
Agenda 21
Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.
Wikipedia
Mark, the videos you continue to post never cease to stun and amaze me. They motivate me to continue to share the saving gospel of grace to whomever I can, wherever I am, whenever a door opens. (Some doors require a firmly planted boot…)
Thanks brother. Shared far and wide.
Pastor,
I feel the same, the video and physical CRIME SCENE EVIDENCE is overwhelming and I’m amazed on how controlled and corrupt the main stream media is in ignoring this. Their sins of commission and now omission is staggering.
I keep waiting for a major break and some organization to start to expose these horrific attacks, but crickets???
I realize many people don’t want to appear to be taken for claiming they saw Bigfoot…but the indisputable physical evidence is far, far past that stage.
Think its just the Left Coast being terrorized and burnt alive…its worldwide.
CITIZENS AGAINST HARMFUL TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER
https://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1413724140
Several types of nuclear energy weapons are being used on Americans.
There are various types of energy weapons described in this newsletter. There are similarities in the injuries sustained by people at various times (Iraq), and evidence in states of matter and how matter reacts to being struck by these energy weapons. There is hot fusion and cold fusion and these types of nuclear particle weapons are being used in the California fires. Dr. Judy Woods describes cold weapons as having the power to disintegrate matter, “dustify” matter, make it glow while staying cool, make matter levitate and other phenomenon. Hurricanes seem to have some abilities to cause some of these states of matter because they are associated with high and low pressure, horizontal and vertical winds and the ability to create and expel particle waves – including gamma. The proof is in the science, not media bullshit. The proof is in the evidence, not politics. Someone is again using ignorance to take advantage to carry out political goals (Agenda 21) and continue the killing.
So, Americans and others in the world are being burned out of their homes. For those and others who are being burned alive in their beds and in their cars and along the road trying to escape from this massacre, this phenomenon of the ‘new abnormal” needs to be exposed. Those who have the means to expose it, please help us. To the right is a person burned alive in their car unable to escape the Camp Fire in California.
The military services seem to be inexplicably involved because they (the Airforce) are carrying out the mass chemtrailing that is maneuvering the high and low pressure areas in the atmosphere and the atmospheric river that flows around the earth. They are using every type of technology available to do bad things, destroying property, animals, the earth and its people.
This is being tolerated by Americans, as demonstrated by the fact that a promise to kill 90% of the people in this country is still standing in the middle of Georgia. Why is this document written in stone still standing? The founding fathers of this country didn’t fight and die so some unknown entity could kill everyone and place their promise to do so upright in the middle of the land. This is a constitution of death. Why is it still standing? Why be so tolerant of people who are murdering you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlMUtnogmDI
“This is being tolerated by Americans, as demonstrated by the fact that a promise to kill 90% of the people in this country is still standing in the middle of Georgia. Why is this document written in stone still standing? The founding fathers of this country didn’t fight and die so some unknown entity could kill everyone and place their promise to do so upright in the middle of the land. This is a constitution of death. Why is it still standing? Why be so tolerant of people who are murdering you?”
GEORGIA’S OWN DOOMSDAY STONHENGE MONUMENT
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2013/09/09/georgias-own-doomsday-stonehenge-monument/
Well, I guess DEW is just one of their methods.
Unless we flip into pitchfork and torches mode, if that ever happens?
The government could probably help, if only we hadn’t spent so much money feeding those poor starving Africans.
“Alex, I’ll take ‘The Wall’ for five billion.”
Neat to think that in 8 years Obama never had to deal with the landfall of a single major hurricane. What a lucky guy.
One more video, in my opinion, showing indisputable evidence of mass murder and terror NOT WILD FIRES.
They have declared war on U.S.!
EVERYONE NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
California Wild Fires; Far From Normal
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