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Flooding from Hurricane Patricia in Texas could bring billions in claims

October 28, 2015October 26, 2015 Julie Campbell

The strongest storm of its nature ever to hit the Western Hemisphere is also bringing flooding back to the state. Even though the storm didn’t cause the type of catastrophe that may have been expected from Hurricane Patricia, the worst storm of that nature that has ever been seen by the Western Hemisphere, this doesn’t mean that it won’t be leaving devastation in its trail now that it has been downgraded to a tropical depression. The largest cities in Mexico may have been spared but Texas could see billions of…

Hurricane Patricia may not have been as much of a disaster as predicted

October 26, 2015October 25, 2015 Julie Campbell

Despite the fact that it was the most powerful storm ever seen by the Western Hemisphere, it was not the most damaging. The first reports about Hurricane Patricia that were released over the weekend after the storm made landfall on the west coast of Mexico indicated that there had not been any major damage and that there had not been any deaths. The early reports were cautiously optimistic that the broad efforts to evacuate affected areas saved lives. Even though Hurricane Patricia was the most powerful storm of that nature…