On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:48:27 -0500, Duane Bozarth wrote:

Ann wrote:
....
Not all hurricanes kill many and the cost doesn't necessarily reflect
the severity. The cost depends on the value of the buildings it takes
out.

In fact, cost is a very poor indicator of actual severity. The penchant
of news services in reporting dollar damage estimates is peculiar imo.
Simply the inflation factor between now and the Galveston event, for
example, would increase it's "severity" by orders of magnitued...

That I did write. g