颶風(fēng)勞拉造成10人死亡和高達(dá)120億美元的損失

颶風(fēng)勞拉造成10人死亡和高達(dá)120億美元的損失

Hurricane Laura unleashed terrible winds on the Louisiana coast, but its effects are "looking relatively tame from an economic perspective" – especially when compared with other powerful storms, according to an early analysis by Moody's Analytics.

颶風(fēng)勞拉給路易斯安那州海岸帶來了可怕的大風(fēng)，但根據(jù)穆迪分析公司(一家調(diào)查商號(hào)信用的公司)的早期分析，“從經(jīng)濟(jì)角度看，它的影響相對(duì)溫和”，尤其是與其他強(qiáng)風(fēng)暴相比。

Laura is blamed for at least 10 deaths, including five people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning — at least one case involving the use of a generator without proper ventilation. Four people died from trees falling on homes, Gov. John Bel Edwards said. And a man drowned after the boat he was on sank, NPR member station WWNO reported.

勞拉至少造成了10人死亡，其中5人死于一氧化碳中毒，其中至少有一起是因?yàn)槭褂冒l(fā)電機(jī)時(shí)沒有適當(dāng)?shù)耐L(fēng)。州長(zhǎng)約翰·貝爾·愛德華茲說，有四人由于樹砸在房屋上而死。據(jù)NPR成員電臺(tái)WWNO報(bào)道，一名男子在乘坐的船沉沒后溺水身亡。

The storm is estimated to have caused anywhere from $4 billion to $12 billion in damages to Louisiana and Texas. While Laura showed a staggering amount of power, its damage tally isn't likely to come close to other strong storms such as hurricanes Katrina and Harvey — the two costliest storms in U.S. history.

據(jù)估計(jì)，這場(chǎng)風(fēng)暴給路易斯安那州和德克薩斯州造成了40億到120億美元的損失。雖然勞拉顯示出驚人的能量，但它造成的損失不太可能接近其他強(qiáng)風(fēng)暴，如卡特里娜颶風(fēng)和哈維颶風(fēng)，這是美國(guó)歷史上造成損失最慘重的兩個(gè)風(fēng)暴。

Katrina caused an estimated $160 billion worth of damage in 2005; Harvey caused $125 billion in damages in 2017.

卡特里娜颶風(fēng)在2005年造成了大約1600億美元的損失;哈維在2017年造成了1250億美元的損失。

A key reason for Laura's smaller price tag is that while the hurricane came ashore with 150-mph winds — crashing large trees into houses, ripping roofs off buildings and tossing vehicles around – it avoided densely populated areas such as Houston and New Orleans.

勞拉損失較少的一個(gè)關(guān)鍵原因是，當(dāng)颶風(fēng)以每小時(shí)150英里的風(fēng)速登陸時(shí)——將大樹砸向房屋，掀翻屋頂，車輛四處拋擲，但它避開了休斯頓和新奧爾良等人口稠密的地區(qū)。

Laura did not stall or hover, which can sharply increase rainfall totals in a given area. It also failed to send a catastrophic storm surge inland. If not for those factors, officials and analysts said, things could have been far worse.

勞拉沒有停止或徘徊，這可以大幅增加給定區(qū)域的降雨量。它也沒能將災(zāi)難性的風(fēng)暴潮帶到內(nèi)陸。官員和分析人士表示，如果沒有這些因素，情況可能會(huì)糟糕得多。

"Nine to 12 feet of storm surge is still a lot of storm surge," Edwards said on Thursday.

“9到12英尺的風(fēng)暴潮仍然是一個(gè)很大的風(fēng)暴潮，”愛德華茲在星期四說。

A slightly higher estimate came from real estate tracking firm CoreLogic, which reported that insured losses for residential and commercial properties in Louisiana and Texas "are estimated to be between $8 billion and $12 billion."

房地產(chǎn)跟蹤公司CoreLogic的估計(jì)略高，該公司報(bào)告稱，路易斯安那州和德克薩斯州的住宅和商業(yè)地產(chǎn)保險(xiǎn)損失“估計(jì)在80億至120億美元之間”。

Storm surge-related losses make up only a small fraction of the total, the firm said.

該公司說，與風(fēng)暴有關(guān)的損失只占總損失的一小部分。

When Laura hit Louisiana and Texas, it exposed more than 625,000 residential properties to tropical storm-force conditions or worse, CoreLogic said. But it reported that only about 10,000 of those properties faced winds of a Category 3 storm or higher, thanks to Laura weakening as it moved inland.

CoreLogic公司說，當(dāng)勞拉襲擊路易斯安那州和得克薩斯州時(shí)，有超過62.5萬個(gè)住宅區(qū)受到熱帶風(fēng)暴或更嚴(yán)重的影響。但據(jù)報(bào)道，由于勞拉在向內(nèi)陸移動(dòng)時(shí)減弱了風(fēng)力，這些房產(chǎn)中只有大約1萬處面臨3級(jí)或更高級(jí)別的風(fēng)。

Along the hard-hit parts of the coast, part of the economic fallout from the storm will only materialize over time.

在受災(zāi)最嚴(yán)重的沿海地區(qū)，風(fēng)暴帶來的部分經(jīng)濟(jì)影響只會(huì)隨著時(shí)間的推移而顯現(xiàn)。

Noting that natural disasters often cause a sudden spike in mortgage delinquencies, CoreLogic said that its analysis suggested that "Hurricane Laura will add to the economic hardship families are already experiencing during the pandemic."

CoreLogic公司指出，自然災(zāi)害往往會(huì)導(dǎo)致抵押貸款拖欠率突然飆升，它的分析表明，“勞拉颶風(fēng)將使已經(jīng)在流行病期間經(jīng)歷的家庭經(jīng)濟(jì)更加困難。”