The ten most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than $170 billion (about P9 trillion) in damage, $20 billion (P1 trillion) more than in 2020. | via philstarlife
A family whose house was damaged by typhoon Odette take shelter under a tree covered with iron sheets along a highway in Surigao City. Ferdinandh Cabrera / AFP
In 2020, it found the world's ten costliest weather disasters caused $150 billion in damage, making this year's total an increase of 13%. A cold snap and winter storm in Texas that took out the vast state's power grid cost $23 billion, followed by flooding in China's Henan province in July that cost an estimated $17.6 billion .
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