{"id":1552,"date":"2012-11-02T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T23:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salaryfor.com\/blog\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2012-11-02T19:05:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T23:05:27","slug":"cost-of-hurricane-sandy-compared-to-other-major-us-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/cost-of-hurricane-sandy-compared-to-other-major-us-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Hurricane Sandy Compared to Other Major US Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cost of Hurricane Sandy Compared to Katrina and Other US Disasters - SalaryFor.com\" src=\"http:\/\/ts2.mm.bing.net\/th?id=I.4895602053286197&amp;pid=15.1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Superstorm Sandy will ultimately be known as one of the costliest economic disasters ever experienced in the U.S. An estimated $50 billion will be lost as a result of the storm, says\u00a0Mark Zandi,chief economist at Moody&#8217;s Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Only Katrina, 9\/11 and Hurricane Andrew suffered bigger economic losses, he says.<\/p>\n<p>In a teleconference and webcast this morning, Zandi estimated that Sandy will cost $30 billion in damages to households, businesses and infrastructure and $20 billion in lost output from business, transportation, health care, government and other services.<\/p>\n<p>He cautioned that these s figures are &#8220;very preliminary estimates&#8221; and total losses ultimately could be higher.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/l3.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/HDhAv2NQcWRBplh1BWAarw--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en-US\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-01-at-1.23.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salaryfor.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #3399cc;\">click here for more salary information<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstorm Sandy will ultimately be known as one of the costliest economic disasters ever experienced in the U.S. An estimated $50 billion will be lost as a result of the storm, says\u00a0Mark Zandi,chief economist at Moody&#8217;s Analytics. Only Katrina, 9\/11 and Hurricane Andrew suffered bigger economic losses, he says. In a teleconference and webcast this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3636,2111,3639,3631,3633,3640,3643,2480,3638,3632,3641,3630,39,3642,3637,3635],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-stories","tag-business-transportation","tag-chief-economist","tag-damages","tag-economic-disasters","tag-economic-losses","tag-estimates","tag-government-services","tag-health-care","tag-households","tag-hurricane-andrew","tag-infrastructure","tag-mark-zandi","tag-salary-information","tag-sandy","tag-teleconference","tag-transportation-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}