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Originally Posted by accord1999
The figures aren't adjusted for inflation, or the growth of population in coastal areas, increased wealth and property values. NOAA and the National Hurricane Center does a periodic review of the damage of the most devastating hurricanes, including trying to determine the damage as equivalently as possible.
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It also doesn't take into account the advancement in building codes, infrastructure, technology, etc to make these areas more robust and resistant to storms as compared to decades past.
That study you cited was published in 2011 and doesn't take into account storms since then.
Granted, damage dollars is a lousy way of gauging the strength of storms anyhow.