2005: Hurricane Katrina costs insurance companies $40 billion.
Reference: NY Times. 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/nyregion/16insurance.html
Image Description: Hurricane Katrina Doppler Radar as 0:43 UTC. NOAA image, 2005Aug29. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hurricane_Katrina_Doppler.gif Image Permission: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made during the course of an employee’s official duties.
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