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The US had 19 storms that each caused over $1bn of insurance damage last year, says Bloomberg, up from only around one or two a year in the 1990s. Most of that damage wasn’t from high winds or heavy rains – as much as 80% of the annual total is from giant hailstones. Baseball-sized ice rocks cracked car windscreens and took down power lines in Texas earlier this month; in March, “grapefruit-sized” hail that fell over Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri caused more than $4bn worth of damages.
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