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The wobbles that saved Florida US$150b in storm damage
Published Tue, Sep 12, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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TWENTY miles (32 km) may have made a US$150 billion difference.
Estimates for the damage Hurricane Irma would inflict on Florida kept mounting as it made its devastating sweep across the Caribbean. It was poised to be the costliest US storm on record. Then something called the Bermuda High intervened and tripped it up.
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