{"id":63849,"date":"2017-09-26T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63849"},"modified":"2017-09-26T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T21:50:15","slug":"wsj-the-damage-from-hurricane-maria-mostly-in-puerto-rico-could-be-worse-than-harvey-and-irma-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63849","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The damage from Hurricane Maria&#8211;mostly in Puerto Rico&#8211;could be worse than Harvey and Irma combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Maria caused an estimated $40 billion to $85 billion in insured losses, mostly in Puerto Rico, catastrophe-modeling firm AIR Worldwide said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Maria was the worst storm to hit Puerto Rico since 1928 and devastated the island,\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/puerto-rico-tallies-up-devastation-from-hurricane-maria-1506294520\">causing widespread property damage\u00a0<\/a>and power outages. The storm also caused extensive<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hurricane-maria-roars-toward-caribbeans-outlying-eastern-islands-1505748762\">\u00a0damage in Dominica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 85% of the insured loss is in Puerto Rico, AIR said. The firm\u2019s preliminary damage estimate is higher than the firm\u2019s estimates for Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Texas in August, and Hurricane Irma, which passed through the Caribbean before reaching Florida earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hurricane-maria-caused-as-much-as-85-billion-in-insured-losses-air-worldwide-says-1506371305\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Maria caused an estimated $40 billion to $85 billion in insured losses, mostly in Puerto Rico, catastrophe-modeling firm AIR Worldwide said Monday. Maria was the worst storm to hit Puerto Rico since 1928 and devastated the island,\u00a0causing widespread property<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63849\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63851,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63849\/revisions\/63851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}