Will hurricane Earl rate in Top 10 most expensive hurricanes?

2. Andrew (1992) – $41.2 billion

Jack Rowland / Newscom / File
Marjorie Conklin lives in a makeshift tent in front of her home at the Goldcoaster Mobile Home and RV park in Florida City in the wake of hurricane Andrew's devastation.

Hurricane Andrew was the only Top 10 storm to make landfall in the US with Category 5 winds. It powered across southern Florida, across the Gulf, made landfall a second time in Louisiana, this time as a Category 3 hurricane, and then blew across Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Andrew claimed 26 lives. With $41.2 billion in property damage (in 2010 dollars), it was America's most expensive hurricane until...

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