Aside from fatalities, weather related disasters cause a lot of damage to the community and drive people out of their homes. After hurricane Katrina for example, there was many fatalities but a lot more fatalities came after the fact because the lack of homes and food since the hurricane destroyed all those things.According to the article, hurricanes and cyclones drove as much as 7 million people out of their homes in the first 6 months of 2019. Now the study shows that by the end of this year, as much as 22 million people will be homeless because of severe weather. Hurricanes and cyclones are not the only weather disasters that occur, we have to take earthquakes and floods into account as well. Fires in california also had a huge impact on housing because of the ash it left behind.Those who have farm lands suffered huge losses this year due to flooding or drought. Many of those who live on farm depend on their crops not only for food but for money and when weather destroys their crops constantly, it becomes very hard to survive for those people.
They have not predicted anything for 2020 as of right now, however if the trend continues, then 2020 will be a much worse year. Hurricanes are coming out a lot more often than before and other parts of the world have to deal with drought all the time.
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