I had no idea the weather office knew the value of business on the coast. It is an extra-trop hurricane and should be expected. If you get damaged by it then you should be insured for it. If you are not insured for it, don't hit me with the bill. Rain can come fast and hard. Stay Home and watch TV Land. Postpone your family outing to the beach.
As I said...I currently work for a 3 star. My job is DSCA. FEMA gives us mission assignments and we do it. Part of the job is doing the EIWG...environmental impacts working group. Part of this group is the USACE. The government has modeling that produces such numbers and the USACE does a lot of work in that area pre-storm to let decision makers at ALL levels (local, state and fed) know what to expect: $ wise and "need" wise so they can pre-position assets if possible...and have others ready to roll afterwards.
When Katrina rolled through...I was the forecaster who modeled the surge for the USACE element at my command. Our G-2 took my surge and wind maps...gave them to USACE...and they plugged them into their formula. The did not count levies breaching in that initial makeup...but initial damage was estimated to be roughly 30 Billion. Then the levies breached and that went up A LOT.
Hey genius, you can’t get flood insurance around where the storm is coming.