Helene’s powerful lesson on the importance of flood insurance

Even for Americans with memories of deadly East Coast storms like Katrina in 2005 or Maria in 2017, there continues to be something jarring about witnessing the terrible destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene with its record-breaking size and storm surge. This wasn’t about the Bahamas and Gulf states like Katrina, or U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands like Maria.