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Jeff Masters, Weather Underground director of Meterology, on the expected $1 billion cost of Hurricane Sandy’s impact.
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-- billion dollar disaster for the US Jeff masters as director of -- urology at the Weather Underground and he joins me now.
With more on that we had to get to a billion dollars that's -- big number.
It's not hard to get it.
There if you got a category one hurricane hitting -- -- -- heavily populated area.
With strong winds -- -- asked her name ES Lana -- for our assess you know put a big storm -- ashore probably really succeed alone occurs at the right -- -- -- makes landfall.
And then you gotta have you really senator costs letting us well.
Is there any chance it won't collide -- there's other -- this story it's Easter coming down from the north.
I don't see anyway I mean the storm is gonna be absorbed by this front coming in and you're gonna combined.
The hurricane is gonna steal some energy from the front -- going to be coming -- storm combination of both of tropical storm an -- not tropical storm and take energy from -- -- is well.
So what are the big dollar values of things that.
The ads you're adding that up by media Zain it's beach erosion kids damage share homes have been had to get there.
Yeah certainly beach erosion and damage -- used torture Islamic terrorists are going to be -- There's going to be probably millions of people literally lose power because the trees still early -- -- wins -- or her back for a long time on the streets.
And there's going to be saturated soils are already falling we're just gonna help bigotry -- -- -- -- power lines.
And what day -- -- gonna pass it this storm tracks are.
Nor you could potentially dangerous storm surge going into the New York City Subway system marrying her and equity you only missed like eight inches -- last year and the structures from -- going to be very similar to our needs.
Now in terms of those dollar values is that all -- measured you take into -- the loss of productivity as people stay home and and don't go out and do things and spend money.
Not just talking insured damages.
-- mean a lot of people hitting the stores right now trying to stock up ahead of this you know what -- in some way.
There's some juice to the economy is people panic -- go to the stores -- Yes you're Hurd beer pop tarts -- the big sellers -- hurt east.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- And we get these questions block from viewers -- gear -- for this big event and that it comes -- and it's kind of no big deal any chance of that.
Somebody's gonna get an estimate believe this parliament -- from probably in Virginia -- -- New York so.
That you may be if -- Virginia coast northeast say well you know the WTO but that means in New -- -- really gonna get the brunt of this so somebody's gonna get it may -- The exactly where -- think it's gonna go -- -- -- button.
-- unavoidable at this point.
Yeah and -- satellite map we're looking at right now is just terrifying Jeff masters thanks so much for coming nine.
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