Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA posted a blog entry to Forbes.com this week describing the cost of weather-related disasters across the world. You can read it here. In it, he states that “From 1995 to 2015, weather-related disasters killed over 600,000 people (roughly 30,000 per year) and injured or adversely impacted 4.1 billion global citizens.” Flooding accounts for almost half of the disasters, but more people are killed by storms like hurricanes. While some of these deaths were not preventable, you can minimize your own safety by following severe weather precautions like not driving through flooded roads and planning ahead for places to wait out storms safely.
