If you’re packing your car or juggling your weekend travel plans to avoid Hurricane Earl, it may be hard to see the bright side through the driving rain. That said, as hurricanes go, Earl isn’t expected to be nearly as bad as coastal disasters in recent history. Some experts suggest the damage caused by Hurricane Earl could result in as little as $100 million in losses – just 5% of the losses sustained after Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

Of course, hurricane damage estimates are notoriously fuzzy. (In 2

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