Extreme weather incurs extreme costs, as this table on 2011-2012 ‘billion-dollar extreme weather’ events shows. More info here. 

Sandy was just the latest in a string of extreme weather, there were a record-high 14 weather events in 2011 that caused at least $1 billion each in damages. How to prevent future “Frankenstorms” after the jump.

See all of those red counties? They were effected by at least one extreme weather event that caused over $1 billion in damage in 2011-12.