In the days following Hurricane Florences assault on the south-eastern coast of the US, some experts are already predicting $2.5 billion in insured losses. However, this wasnt the seasons first severe storm — Lane hit Hawaii just a few weeks before and while the devastation wasnt as significant on the island, the hurricane did outpace Florence in some metrics. “One thing in common between the two hurricane events is that they produced a huge amount of rainfall within their affected inland areas. Hurricane Lane produced about 52 inches of rainfall in some areas in the Hawaiian islands, and Hurricane Florence dumped over 30 inches of rainfall on the North Carolina coast,” said Wei Du, principal scientist at CoreLogic.
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