Of course, a storm now is
always going to be costlier than an identical storm 200 years ago: there's
more stuff to get wrecked! Your opinion that there's some increase in the size of the storms is just that: your opinion.
Hey, the largest earthquake in US history happened in the early 1800's. Maybe God is less mad now - he's hardly touched us since 1906!
Actually not, the largest earthquake in US History was in 1964 in Prince William Sound Alaska measuring 9.2.
9.2 March 28, 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska