( ) -q-18- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “set in 2020.” The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to an annual record for the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion. [CutID: <Cuts> WEATHER-DISASTERS-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 18s Title: WEATHER-DISASTERS-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: set in 2020] TAG: Correspondent […]
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US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year
( ) -q-18- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “set in 2020.”
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to an annual record for the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. So far disasters this year have cost more than $57.6 billion and claimed at least 253 lives.
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VERBATIM: Meanwhile, there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there have been 23 weather extreme events in America that cost at least $1 billion this year through August. That breaks the annual record of 22 set in 2020.