Bloomberg: Harvey May Be Among the World’s Costliest Recent Catastrophes

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-costliest-insured-losses/?utm_content=economics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-economics

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

List of disasters by cost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost

Countries by GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

Bloomberg: Hurricane Harvey Shuts Two of the Largest U.S. Ports

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/hurricane-harvey-shuts-two-of-the-largest-u-s-ports

Bloomberg: Hurricane Harvey Strengthens as Refinery Risk Lifts Gasoline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-25/harvey-strengthens-as-gasoline-surges-on-texas-refinery-threat

Hurricane Harvey Strengthens as Refinery Risk Lifts Gasoline

By 

Brian K Sullivan

, 

Mark Chediak

, and 

Abigail Morris

August 25, 2017, 2:03 AM EDT August 25, 2017, 8:30 AM EDT

• Exxon, Anadarko, Shell among energy explorers cutting output
• Would be first major hurricane to hit U.S. since 2005’s Wilma

Hurricane Harvey strengthened as it headed toward landfall in Texas, forecast to become the worst storm to strike the region in more than a decade. The price of gasoline rallied as it threatened to wreak havoc on the heart of America’s energy sector.

Harvey became a Category 2 hurricane around midnight in Texas and was packing top .....