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A recent blog post by Kermit Baker and Alexander Hermann of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University looked at losses from natural disasters over the last 12 years. They found that the total cost of the natural disasters that occurred in 2017, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, could exceed disaster-related damages from any year in the last two decades.