Are We Ready for a $100 Billion Catastrophe? How About $200 Billion? | Dozens of wildfires burn in Louisiana amid scorching heat: "This is unprecedented" | More single moms are taking long trips abroad with the kids - here's how they do it

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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Are We Ready for a $100 Billion Catastrophe? How About $200 Billion? - WSJ    Hurricane Andrew was a Category 5 storm when it slammed into Florida in 1992 and cost insurers about $16 billion. Adjusting for consumer price-index inflation, that translates to about $35 billion today, but catastrophe models indicate the actual number would be much higher. Ricardo J. Ferro/Zuma Press Will America dodge another bullet? Years often pass without a major hurricane making landfall, and 2023’s storm season, set to peak in a couple of weeks, may be no different. What is different is the potential financial shock if one does hit. The National Hurricane Center issued its first-ever tropical storm watch for Southern California this month—a reminder that extremely unlikely events can, and do, happen. Another unlikely event occurred just over 30 years ago, when Hurricane Andrew landed in southern Florida during what... Continued here Dozens of wildfires burn in Louisiana amid scorching heat: "This is unprecedented" -     An entire town in southwestern Louisiana is under mandatory evacuation orders because of a wildfire that state officials say is the largest they have ever seen. Usually during this time of year, the Deep South state is addressing threats of imminent hurricanes, tropical storms and flooding. But this summer Louisiana has been plagued by record-breaking heat and extreme drought, which have made the wildfire risk unusually high. This month alone, there have been 441 wildfires in the state. Louisiana's largest blaze, the Tiger Island Fire in Beauregard Parish, has already burned an estimated 23 square miles — accounting for more acres of burned land than the state usually has in an entire year. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � More single moms are taking long trips abroad with the kids - here's how they do it - CNBC    Two and a half years after Roni Dagan's husband died, she and her seven-year-old son, Gal, found solace in places far from home. They didn't confine themselves to a single location. The act of traveling itself is what has brought Dagan and her child joy - something they started after that first year of grieving. "To have adventures and to explore - this is freedom to me. And Gal is in the place where I can do that with him," Dagan told CNBC Travel. "That loss - it made me realize ... you just have to go and do the things that you love to do." Continued here

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