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I am one who said Irene was over-hyped, and this article shows that it was \u2014 only in it\u2019s obsessive concentration with New York City \u2014 but Irene was one of the costliest hurricanes ever. Kris and I kept wondering how the good folks were doing in North Carolina, and then we wondered about New Hampshire. N.B. at The Economist<\/strong><\/a> has this to say about the over-hyped issue:<\/p>\n

I am glad I wasn\u2019t arguing that the storm was overhyped, but I\u2019m afraid I may have missed the point, too. Although Irene did not cause massive damage in New York or Washington, other places exist, too, and the storm hit many of them hard. In fact, Irene may end up proving to be\u00a0one of the ten costliest disasters<\/a> in American history. TheNew York Times <\/em>has the story:<\/p>\n
Industry estimates put the cost of the storm at $7 billion to $10 billion, largely because the hurricane pummeled an unusually wide area of the East Coast. Beyond deadly flooding that caused havoc in upstate New York and Vermont, the hurricane flooded cotton and tobacco crops in North Carolina, temporarily halted shellfish harvesting in Chesapeake Bay, sapped power and kept commuters from their jobs in the New York metropolitan area and pushed tourists off Atlantic beaches in the peak of summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The flooding in Vermont, in particular, is one of the under-covered stories of the past week. Amtrak was forced to suspend train service in the state because four crucial railroad bridges were unusable in the wake of the storm. Nearly three dozen other bridges were \u201cswept away\u201d entirely, according to the\u00a0Times.<\/em> If Irene does turn out to be as costly as the early estimates suggest, the people who implied it was overhyped or not as bad as expected will have to eat crow. I\u2019ll start: $7 billion-$10 billion is a lot of damage, and at least as bad as I expected. Sorry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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