As Floridians emerge from their battered, roofless and plywood-covered homes, it’s already clear that survivors are looking at more than $100 billion of damage caused by Hurricane Milton, following just weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the same part of Florida, then swerved upcountry into North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. Helene alone caused damage of $30.5 billion to $47.5 billion to residential and properties, and as much as $30 billion was not insured, the real estate data company CoreLogic said, just before Milton hit.
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